Salesforce unveils Quip Collaboration Platform, extending teamwork in live documents
Salesforce unveils Quip Collaboration Platform, extending teamwork in live documents.
At Dreamforce 2017 on Monday, Salesforce unveiled the Quip Collaboration Platform, beefing up Quip's functionality with custom app integrations and new workflow templates.
Quip, which originally focused on collaborative document sharing and word processing functionality, was acquired by Salesforce in late 2016. Now, with the help of Salesforce, Quip's offerings are expanding.
The custom app integrations are known Live Apps, according to a Salesforce press release. These Live Apps are "custom-built applications that can be embedded directly into any Quip document," the release said. For a given project, the Live App will bring relevant information from the app into the Quip document, so users don't have to constantly switch between multiple apps, tabs, or windows to get to the information they need.