{"id":8948,"date":"2021-07-22T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:28:46","slug":"salesforce-completes-its-multibillion-dollar-slack-tech-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/salesforce-completes-its-multibillion-dollar-slack-tech-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Completes Its Multibillion-dollar Slack Tech Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salesforce has completed its $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack Technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salesforce said the combination of Salesforce and Slack will deliver the &#8220;Slack-first Customer 360,&#8221; which ensures that businesses have access to a single source of truth and also a single platform that connects employees, customers and partners to their everyday applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal will ensure Slack continues to operate under the Slack brand and will continue to be led by CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commenting on the deal, Marc Benioff, CEO of Slack, said, &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t be more excited to have Slack as part of the Salesforce family, combining the #1 CRM and the trailblazing digital platform for the work anywhere world. Together we&#8217;ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver customer and employee success from anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/digital-hq-emerges-from-salesforces-27-7-billion-slack-acquisition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce has completed its $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-slack"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}