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Salesforce buys Slack

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in CRM, and Slack Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: WORK), the most innovative enterprise communications platform, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Salesforce will acquire Slack. Under the terms of the agreement, Slack shareholders will receive $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion based on the closing price of Salesforce’s common stock on November 30, 2020.

Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world.

Microsoft attempted to buy Slack in previous years, now Salesforce succeeded (for a lot more money). However promising Slack used to be it could not compete against Microsoft in any way during the last 8 months. Slack had to be acquired to become part of something bigger to save it. Salesforce is one step further in becoming a platform player in the business application and collaboration market.

Source : Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

Oud en nieuw

Bij het aanmelden van mijn aanstaande Porsche kwam ik ook de ‘ oude’ nog tegen in de Porsche Connect portal

Oud en nieuw. Een wereld van verschil en toch weer niet

VDI in the Age of Covid-19: Remote Work and the Challenge of the Virtualized Client

De uitdaging bij thuiswerken is niet videovergaderen. Dat is namelijk een ‘inkoppertje’ omdat > 90% van de organisaties daar een clouddienst zoals Microsoft Teams voor inzetten.

Nee, de uitdaging zit hem in het geven van toegang tot (primaire) bedrijfsapplicaties die in het eigen datacenter draaien. Dat is vaak al wel geregeld voor een klein aantal gebruikers die, vanuit hun functie, toegang moeten hebben tot deze applicaties. Maar hoe doe je dat op schaal, voor (bijna) alle gebruikers ..

These are trying times, not least because corporate life needs to go on, which for millions of businesses means delivering compute resources to employees at home. Remote work is no longer an option or an initiative – almost overnight it’s become a global imperative.

Bron: VDI in the Age of Covid-19: Remote Work and the Challenge of the Virtualized Client