Quickly to be a unit of Salesforce.
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Salesforce on Tuesday mentioned it will acquire Slack for $27.7 billion in money and inventory. The messaging platform will probably be “deeply built-in into each Salesforce Cloud,” the businesses wrote in a press release. When the transaction closes, Slack will probably be an working unit of Salesforce, and Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield will proceed to steer the platform.
“Stewart and his crew have constructed one of the crucial beloved platforms in enterprise software program historical past, with an unbelievable ecosystem round it,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff mentioned within the assertion. “Collectively, Salesforce and Slack will form the way forward for enterprise software program and remodel the best way everybody works within the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world.”
The acquisition comes amid a soar in distant work because of the coronavirus pandemic. In October, Slack teased new features, together with push-to-talk audio calls, Instagram-like tales and the power for folks from any firm to ship customers direct messages.
“Salesforce and Slack will give corporations a single supply of fact for his or her enterprise and a unified platform for connecting workers, clients and companions with one another and the apps they use on daily basis, all inside their present workflows,” the businesses mentioned.
The transaction is anticipated to shut within the second quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal 12 months 2022, pending approval by Slack stockholders, regulatory approvals and different closing circumstances.
Following reports of a possible acquisition last week, shares of Slack rose nearly 30%.
