Tact brings intelligent sales assistant to new Slack enterprise edition
Tact, the AI-driven sales tool that uses software smarts to simplify sales tasks, today announced integration with the newly announced Slack enterprise product, Slack Enterprise Grid. Tact, which currently has a mobile app and Amazon Echo integration (along with in-car integration in private Beta), sees messaging tools like Slack as a logical extension of the platform. It can help automate… Read More Continue reading Tact brings intelligent sales assistant to new Slack enterprise edition
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