Online document collaboration software has been around since the dawn of Wikipedia, which amounts to one gigantic corpus of interactively-developed content. If correct, Quip's $582 million purchase price will be a bargain. However, by already being core to many of its customers' business processes, Salesforce has the best shot yet at finally breaking the tyranny of the interoffice memo and bringing business communications into the era of social sharing and online collaboration. This is no easy task and many have failed to unseat Microsoft Office and Outlook as the collaboration platform of choice in most enterprises. That won't be clear for a while, but Salesforce could do for enterprise collaboration what Google and the myriad others inhabiting various collaboration software niches have so far been unable to achieve: deliver a viable alternative to document-centric communication processes that are based on a back-and-forth of attachment-laden email messages. ![]() ![]() When news broke of Salesforce buying Quip, makers of a suite of collaborative productivity software, it was met with some perplexity given the former's seemingly cozy relationship with Microsoft and the futility of trying to upend Office's hegemony on corporate PCs.ĭiginomica's Stuart Lauchlan questioned whether this might transform the friendship into something more like co-opetition in which Salesforce opportunistically supports Office, but is ready with an alternative for customers not wedded to the Microsoft suite.
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