A Pitch To Partners On Slack
Multiple Salesforce executives pitched partners on adding Slack to its customer offerings, even giving suggestions on how to do so.
In one talk, Lynn Cohen, Salesforce senior director of independent software vendor technical evangelism, said partners can use Slack as a way to offer services to new departments within a business and create new user workflows. She gave the examples of building an app for hiring managers and job interviewers to share information, pulling in data from Salesforce. She also encouraged partners to explore new Slack badges and coursework on Salesforce’s learning platforms.
“Slack facilitates growth opportunities, and when I say opportunities, I‘m talking about deals,” Cohen said. “New logos, expansion with your current customers and cross-sell opportunities.”
Sid Murlidhar, Slack’s head of platform partnerships, said that his company has one of “the software industry‘s most dynamic and extensive partner ecosystems” and “technical and go-to-market support for all our managed partners.” He said Slack is still “very early in the journey of getting every enterprise SaaS tool integrated into Slack.”
“Our advice to partners is to focus on those use cases that require team collaboration and cross-functional coordination,” Murlidhar said. “Keep it simple. Make it easier to share content in Slack, then bring relevant notifications into Slack, and then bring those workflows right within Slack where users are collaborating together.”
