Quip for Salesforce
Featuring Quip Document Lightning Component
Quip from Salesforce (www.quip.com) is a place for teams to get work done together in a better way. Faster than an email. More powerful than a three-hour meeting.
Seriously though what’s compelling about Quip for Salesforce is that it’s now bringing together what until now where very separate worlds:
- business process centric applications
- data(base) centric application
- unstructured (i.e. document / spreadsheet) productivity tools with collaboration built in
Quip’s main features are as follows
- Collaboration — allow teams to simultaneously edit documents together
- Communication — facilitate chat and comment threads around the content being created
- Connectedness — Access anywhere: mobile, desktop etc.
- CRM Integration — Live Salesforce data and shared object editing
However even with all these capabilities one of the classic challenges with collaboration solutions is that they can end up being silos of collaboration — chatter, email, chat, quip documents, whatsapp etc. Conversation and data in one location isn’t aware of the others.
While it was possible to associate quip documents with records and chatter feeds in Salesforce it wasn’t so easy to peer directly into the content and use it as part of your business flow. However that has changed now with the launch of the Quip Document Lightning Component allowing you to easily embed quip documents anywhere within Salesforce. For example within the home page or a console application or within a collaboration group context. (Unfortunately external facing community cloud use cases aren’t supported yet.)
Find out more about the Quip Document Lightning Component
- You can now embed documents, spreadsheets, slides, and related chat directly into Salesforce Quip Document Lightning Component and Lightning App Builder.
- Now any Salesforce object can be customised to include collaborative documents right in the context of CRM.
- Quip for Salesforce enables a business to increase productivity within the Salesforce platform — they can work in one place, instead of four.
Check out this short video showcasing how Quip and the Document Lightning Component can work together in Salesforce.
Here is a short overview video of Quip for Salesforce in action:
