{"id":2090,"date":"2016-12-07T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/slack-and-google-announce-partnership-focused-on-better-integrating-their-services.html"},"modified":"2016-12-07T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:12:48","slug":"slack-and-google-announce-partnership-focused-on-better-integrating-their-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/slack-and-google-announce-partnership-focused-on-better-integrating-their-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Slack and Google announce partnership focused on better integrating their services"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Slack announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud this morning, which will bring a number of new features, including deeper integrations with Google services, to its collaboration platform for teams. Among the additions are new bots for notifications, as well as support for Google\u2019s recently launched Team Drives, document previews, permissioning and more.<\/p>\n

The move comes at a time when Slack is facing\u00a0new competition from Microsoft<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>, who have each launched their own rival products in recent weeks. Microsoft Teams\u00a0<\/a>is basically a Microsoft Slack clone, but has the added advantage of being able to tie into Microsoft\u2019s suite of services, including Skype and Office 365.<\/p>\n

Slack, as\u00a0an independent company, doesn\u2019t have the same, native ability connect deeply to other products and services that a business may use \u2013 instead, it relies on third-party integrations. Google and Slack have already worked together on that front, though not via\u00a0formal arrangement like this.<\/p>\n

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Google Drive was one of the first Slack integrations and remains one of the most popular, says Slack, noting that a Google Drive file is imported in Slack approximately 60,000 times every weekday. Or, that means a file is shared every 1.4 seconds.<\/p>\n

Now, Slack says it will work with Google developers on building further integrations for their overlapping\u00a0customer base.<\/p>\n

That begins with the rollout of the integrations announced today, but will expand to include other features in the future.<\/p>\n

One of the\u00a0new integrations is\u00a0a Google Drive Bot that will post comments and requests for access into Slack. Recipients can then approve or reject requests from Slack, or settle comments, or they can launch Google Docs\u00a0to work with the files directly.<\/p>\n

Slack will also allow users to preview Google Docs files in the app itself, and, when shared, Slack will check the permissions on the file. If you\u2019re sharing with people who don\u2019t have access currently, Slack will prompt you to update your sharing settings.<\/p>\n

Slack will work with Google Team Drives, too, if the company is using that newer service.<\/a> Files shared in Slack will be uploaded automatically to the Team Drive, and Team Drive updates are also shared back to Slack.<\/p>\n

Finally, admins will be able to provision Slack for their company through an integration with the G Suite (formerly, Google Apps\u00a0for Work<\/a>) dashboard. This will work with both new and existing teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle and Slack share the same vision for the future of work: that smart software could bring teams together and make all of their work and conversations seamlessly available in one place,\u201d writes Nan Boden, Head of Global Technology Partners, Google Cloud, in a blog post. \u201cThe result is that teams can move faster and more efficiently,\u201d Boden said, adding that Google will also be helping Slack take advantage of Google\u2019s technologies to scale its business.<\/p>\n

The new integrations are being announced today,\u00a0as a look as what\u2019s in store for Google and Slack customers, but will be rolled out over the first half of 2017.<\/p>\n

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