#enterprise-integration

#enterprise-integration

Slackbot, the automated assistant baked into the Salesforce-owned corporate messaging platform Slack, is entering a new era as an AI agent. And Salesforce CTO Parker Harris hopes it will be as viral as OpenAI's ChatGPT. The cloud software giant rolled out the new version of Slackbot on Tuesday. This new AI agent version of Slackbot, which is generally available for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, can find information, draft emails, and schedule meetings, among other things, all within the Slack platform, according to the company.

As early adopters have discovered, Copilot delivers real transformation only when it becomes an integral part of critical workflows. Enterprises are beginning to treat generative AI not as an isolated productivity tool, but as the connective layer linking business applications, data, and human judgment. Nowhere is this shift clearer than in organizations using Microsoft 365 Copilot as part of a broader architecture that spans CRMs, low-code platforms, and specialized AI systems.

AI has become the boardroom obsession of the decade. Yet despite billions in investment and relentless hype, recent independent studies show that most enterprises struggle to turn pilots into measurable business outcomes. Two recent studies put this problem into sharp focus: These studies deliver an important message that must echo across boardrooms: AI pilots aren't failing because the technology isn't powerful enough. They're failing because the strategy and expectations behind them are flawed.

gRPC's high performance and support for multiple programming languages make it suitable for complex, distributed applications, said Stephanie Walter, analyst at HyperFRAME Research.