New Slackbot: AI Assistant for Content, Summaries & More

Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot composes content, summarizes reports, schedules meetings, and connects to Salesforce & third-party apps. It aims to be an 'always-on teammate' within Slack workspaces.

Individuals have long been able to engage with Slackbot from channels and straight messages, where it can be asked to send notifications or suggestions, or offer a predetermined response to keyword triggers such as what the Wi-Fi password is, among other tasks.

Enhanced Slackbot Features

As with other AI assistants on the market, the brand-new Slackbot will do a variety of functions such as composing content and summarizing reports. Slackbot will certainly also have the ability to schedule a conference by examining colleagues’ schedules for available times and will prepare a conference program and surface relevant files ahead of the telephone call.

The spruced up Slackbot, which is presently in pilot, will certainly come from a switch at the top of the app. Once conjured up, it will respond to customer inquiries based upon details in conversations, documents and other information kept in Slack, in addition to Salesforce devices and connected third-party apps including Google Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive, the business said.

Future Integrations & Capabilities

The new Slackbot will initially only have access to information within a Slack work space, yet there are plans to connect to web data at a later day, a Slack agent said. Other abilities on the product roadmap include the capacity to interact with and orchestrate other AI representatives in Slack, as well as build AI agents for customers without any coding. Slack just recently introduced designer tools to make it easier to get in touch with third-party AI assistants.

The brand-new Slackbot will initially just have accessibility to data within a Slack work space, yet there are strategies to attach to web information at a later date, a Slack speaker stated. Other abilities on the item roadmap include the ability to connect with and orchestrate other AI representatives in Slack, as well as develop AI representatives for users without any coding. Available in a Slack network, the agent is described as an “always on teammate” that can address questions related to shared jobs. It’s available currently on all Slack intends with a Salesforce Agentforce certificate, together with Agentforce Sales, Agentforce Human Resources Service, and Agentforce Tableau.

Salesforce Agentforce Integration

With this in mind, there are new assimilations with 4 of Salesforce’s Agentforce representatives. In Agentforce IT Solution, for instance, employees can get help with requests such as password resets from within Slack. The representative will additionally develop an “occurrence network” for even more complicated troubles, instantly including the appropriate individuals and info. It’s offered now on all Slack plans with a Salesforce Agentforce permit, alongside Agentforce Sales, Agentforce HR Service, and Agentforce Tableau.

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Network Expert Agent in Slack

There’s likewise an indigenous “network expert” representative coming to Slack, in addition to business search throughout third-party applications, and assimilations with Salesforce agents. It’s all component of the strategy to make Slack the “agentic OS” for Salesforce’s organization applications.

Among the other announcements at moms and dad company Salesforce’s Dreamforce occasion today is the general availability of channel agent. Available in a Slack channel, the agent is called an “constantly on teammate” that can answer inquiries associated with shared jobs. This is consisted of at no added expense in Slack Business+ strategies and over.