Slack Marketplace Expands with 25 New AI-Powered Apps to Boost Workplace Productivity

You Can Now Use Adobe Express, Perplexity and Other AI Apps in Slack

These are app extensions designed to work within Slack's interface Slack, the work management and productivity platform, added 25 new artificial intelligence (AI) apps to its marketplace on Thursday. The newly added apps join the more than 2,600 apps already available on the platform. Some of these apps are Asana, Adobe Express, Glean, Perplexity, Jasper, and Wiz. The company said that the availability of these apps within Slack's interface will improve the productivity of professionals as they would not have to switch between apps to complete tasks. Notably, Slack apps are available to all users of the platform. In a press release, the company announced the addition of 25 new AI apps to the marketplace. Additionally, it is planning to add 10 more AI apps in the next few months. Slack claims that all apps available in its marketplace come with high security standard. The newly added apps are focused on productivity, content generation and analysis, sales and marketing, and human resource (HR) and IT functions. Slack has added four new productivity-focused apps. Asana can help organisations manage projects and map workload, Clockwise can optimise work calendars, and UiPath offers automation tools. Additionally, Graph helps engineering teams find answers to their queries from GitHub, Jira, and Linear data. Seven new AI-powered content generation and analysis apps have also been added. Adobe Express and Amazon Q Business are popular platforms which will now support Slack. Additionally, Box, a contract analysis chatbot, and Cohere, a content creation platform, have also been added. Apart from that, Slack is also adding Perplexity, the AI search engine, as well as Glean and Writer. For sales and marketing professionals, Slack is adding Dovetail, a customer data analysis platform; Gainsight, a customer success management (CSM) platform; Highspot, a conversational search tool for sales content; Jasper, an end-to-end marketing workflow system; and Productboard, a customer feedback analysis platform. Finally, for HR and IT professionals, the marketplace now offers BambooHR, a popular HR automation platform, as well as Copado, which can automate and streamline DevOps tasks. Moveworks, another automation-focused app aimed at IT and HR functions, is also available on Slack. Those looking for additional offers will also see PagerDuty, a workflow management tool, and Ravenna, an automation tool for desk ticket creation. Rootly, an incident management platform that can streamline on-call operations and automate incident response, will also be accessible within Slack's interface. Finally, real-time threat intelligence platform Wiz is also making its way to the marketplace.

Slack Marketplace adds 25+ new AI apps to enhance workplace productivity

Put AI to work across use cases like content creation, market research, sales management, DevOps, IT, HR, and more. Are you drowning in a sea of SaaS apps, constantly switching screens, and struggling to keep everything updated? You're not alone, the average number of SaaS solutions used by companies is 112. But what if you could bring all those tools - and the power of AI- into one central hub? Enter the Slack Marketplace. The Slack Marketplace is where partners and developers are sharing solutions, they've built that bring all these apps into the flow of work, where employees are already spending their time, in Slack. And these aren't just typical apps - Slack's innovative partners are building AI-powered apps that bring the productivity of generative AI into users' work streams. These AI apps can help users surface information, provide recommendations, generate helpful summaries, and more, all in the same conversational interface you are already using to get work done. Slack's partners and developers understand how important it is to bring people, apps, and data into one work operating system, giving each employee their own command center and time back in their day. That's why there are 25 new AI apps on the Slack Marketplace that put AI to work for use cases from drafting content, surfacing market research, managing sales, running DevOps, IT, HR, and beyond. Every one of these AI apps makes Slack more useful, drives adoption, streamlines the flow of work, and inspires a new use case. Here is the current lineup of AI apps available now or coming soon in the Slack Marketplace: Apps for productivity Asana: Surfaces project insights and recommendations, such as status, blockers, next steps, and more, within the context of Slack conversations. Clockwise: Optimizes work calendars with the ability to quickly schedule and reschedule meetings within Slack conversations and create easy-to-book scheduling links. Graph: Empowers engineering teams with instant, context-rich answers based on GitHub, Jira and Linear data, all without leaving Slack. UiPath: Enhances productivity through a combination of automation and enterprise-grade tools. Apps for content generation and analysis Adobe Express: Enables employees to design, collaborate on and speed up visual content creation right in their workflow. Amazon Q Business: Answers questions, provides summaries, generates content, and securely completes tasks based on data and information in the customer's enterprise systems. Box: Provides AI-powered content insights that help analyze uploaded account contracts, quickly answer competitive questions from internal documents, and summarize reports. Cohere: Streamlines content creation by accessing information from company data sources during search, summarization and content generation, while keeping data secure and isolated from their AI models. Glean: Surfaces relevant internal knowledge with ease, giving instant access to company information, answers to common business questions, and insights. Perplexity: Expands knowledge with an AI answer engine that searches the web, providing cite-able strategic insights, prospect research and summaries of public customer opinions. Writer: Provides easy access to custom AI apps, analyzes company data and generates on-brand content to boost team collaboration, streamline work and drive informed decisions. Apps for sales, service, or marketing Dovetail: Brings teams closer to customers by accessing deeper customer knowledge and insights to help teams make more customer-centric product decisions. Gainsight: Boosts customer retention with immediate, data-driven answers to customer-related questions, generated content like emails, and customer success best practices and guidance. Highspot: Increases sales team efficiency and success with conversational search and by surfacing high-impact sales content right in the flow of work. Jasper: Scale end-to-end marketing workflows and keep every output on-brand with easy access to 100+ marketing apps right in the flow of work. Productboard: Empowers product teams with AI-powered customer feedback analysis directly in Slack. Product managers can instantly analyze voice of customer data, co-author insight documents, and identify key customer needs without leaving their workflow. Apps for HR and IT BambooHR: Simplifies HR processes and enables employees to instantly self-serve needs like HR information access, PTO requests and checking who's out of the office. Copado: Automates and streamlines DevOps processes, including simplifying sprint planning, automating test workflows and improving deployment efficiency. Moveworks: Automates employee support with instant resolution of IT, HR and facilities-related service requests. PagerDuty: Streamlines and enhances incident management workflows directly within Slack, delivering real-time insights, automated responses and intelligent recommendations. Ravenna: Streamlines IT operations with automated help desk ticket creation, instant answers and auto-generated knowledge base articles, all directly within Slack. Rootly: Manages incident response with an SRE copilot that examines critical incident data to summarize conversations, automate root cause analysis and draft stakeholder updates. Wiz: Enhances security with real-time threat intelligence, automated incident response, proactive vulnerability insights and automated remediation recommendations. Discover trusted AI apps in the Slack Marketplace The most important part of any AI solution is security, making your data and systems stay in your control. Not only are these AI apps innovative and powerful, they are trusted. As with any AI solution in Slack, every one of these AI apps is held to meet Slack's high security standards. With 25 AI apps already available and 10-plus on the way in the next few months, the Slack ecosystem is rapidly building AI apps that fuel a powerful experience in Slack, empowering people to get work done in one conversational interface. Explore the Slack Marketplace today to find AI apps that boost your productivity. Salesforce Comments: Rahul Sharma, Vice President - Sales, Salesforce India, shared "With new AI apps now available in the Slack Marketplace, we're seeing a powerful shift in how work gets done - right within the conversational interface employees already use daily. According to Slack's Workforce Lab, desk workers globally spend 41% of their time on repetitive, low-value tasks. That's a significant drain on innovation and output. But now, with more AI-powered apps and Agentforce in Slack, we're entering a whole new era of workplace transformation, unlocking agentic productivity for every employee. It enables organizations to turn on a dedicated, always-on digital labor force in Slack, seamlessly integrating them into conversations as a natural part of your team's flow of work. AI agents in Slack have the potential to transform employee productivity at a scale rarely observed in history."