But that’s part of the natural evolution.” Making these different products run smoother is always appreciated. “We’re always looking for more integrations. “Salesforce does a good job of bringing together these different products to one platform,” Sonnad said. Gireesh Sonnad, CEO of New York-based Salesforce channel partner Silverline, recently told CRN that his company has seen business opportunities from fellow Salesforce subsidiaries Tableau and MuleSoft and that he looks forward to learning how he can leverage Slack. OSF has seen its Salesforce revenue grow north of 30 percent year over year. Gerry Szatvanyi, CEO of OSF Digital - which is based in Quebec and has offices in San Francisco, New York and Massachusetts - told CRN recently that the Salesforce partner has already worked Slack into its Salesforce portfolio for customer support and service cases. Some Salesforce partners have already started working with Slack. The Slack acquisition comes during a competitive time for collaborative apps, with apps like Slack and Zoom competing against Microsoft’s Teams app. Slack had 169,000 paid customers as of the end of April 2021 and generated $273.4 million in revenue in the three months ended April 30, 2021.

Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield will continue to lead the new subsidiary within Salesforce. “Together we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver customer and employee success from anywhere,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in a statement.

The companies announced the acquisition in December. Department of Justice had closed its antitrust investigation into the acquisition. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 16 that the U.S. Salesforce said Wednesday that it officially closed its blockbuster $27.7 billion acquisition of collaboration app Slack as the San Francisco tech giant aims to enter the work-from-anywhere technology arena.

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