Salesforce’s ecosystem is much more mature and many of its clients are at an enterprise-level, which many Slack app developers have never had to account for. However, these benefits won’t come without significant changes. Slack’s opportunities in the market have been solidified, which, in the long run, will be good for third-party developers.
By buying Slack, a company as influential as Salesforce told the world that the growth seen by Slack was not a flash-in-the-pan-type incident, and the product, while under new leadership, is here to stay. It confirms that the Slack phenomenon that has been building over recent years didn’t reach a plateau or peak during the work from the home era. What the Salesforce acquisition does is add legitimacy to Slack’s product. Additionally, as of writing this article, Slack has welcomed some 2,200 third-party apps onto its platform, meaning some 880,000 developers are working on Slack adjacent apps on any given day. Within the years of 20 Slack doubled its number of users from 6 million to 12 million. The internal communication tool has seen its numbers skyrocket in previous years. What Do Third-Party Developers Need to Do to Adapt? Let’s dive into how Slack and its group of third-party developers could leverage the Salesforce acquisition to revolutionize internal processes such as onboarding and employee training. If successful changes are made, these outside contributors would no longer be viewed as a convenient add-on but rather a collection of critical cogs that drive a reimagined Slack.īut how could this have an impact beyond increasing chat capabilities for online business discussions or remote workplace banter? The implications could be much more massive than some may have anticipated.
That’s where some of these third-party apps will come in adapting their product will be essential. With the robust infrastructure of Salesforce and its enterprise-level offerings, Slack will be forced to level up its product. What these outside spectators fail to acknowledge is Slack’s platform of third-party applications, as well as the meteoric potential the company could reach with Salesforce’s power behind it. Isn’t Slack just a messaging platform? Is Salesforce just trying to ride Slack’s popularity wave and snatch it up before someone else does? Some casual observers may even be scratching their heads. However, many may look at Slack and then look at Salesforce, the tech behemoth that shelled out that money, and see somewhat of a superficial relationship. Anytime a company is sold for $27.7 billion, there undoubtedly will be ripples felt throughout the market for a good long while.
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