Salesforce–Google tie-up

Salesforce and Google Cloud said on April 22 they are expanding their partnership again, this time to let artificial intelligence agents work across Slack, Google Workspace and Salesforce systems. (salesforce.com) The companies said Gemini Enterprise is scheduled to arrive in Slack in April 2026, and Salesforce’s Agentforce reasoning in Google Cloud is due in May 2026. Salesforce said the goal is to let users act on data where it already lives instead of copying it between apps. (salesforce.com) In plain terms, these tools are meant to let a worker ask a question in Slack, pull context from Salesforce records and Google files, and trigger follow-up actions across both companies’ software. Google Cloud and Salesforce said the new setup is aimed at “end-to-end workflows” that run across disconnected systems. (salesforce.com) This is the latest step in a partnership that has been widening for more than a year. In February 2025, Salesforce said Agentforce would use Google’s Gemini models and that Salesforce products including Agentforce, Data Cloud and Customer 360 apps would run on Google Cloud infrastructure. (salesforce.com) The companies widened the tie-up again on October 16, 2025, when Salesforce said Gemini Enterprise would connect with Slack through Slack’s real-time search application programming interface, and Agentforce 360 would spread deeper across Google Workspace. (salesforce.com) Slack is central to this push because it is Salesforce’s workplace chat product, while Google Workspace already owns email, documents and meetings for many large companies. The pitch from both vendors is that buyers can keep employees inside those tools while artificial intelligence handles searches, summaries and next-step actions in the background. (salesforce.com) (cloud.google.com) Google has been making similar moves with other software partners as it pushes Gemini Enterprise as a place to “discover, create, share, and run AI agents” and as it deepens integrations with companies including Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow. That puts this announcement inside a broader contest over which cloud and software vendors become the control layer for workplace AI. (cloud.google.com 1) (cloud.google.com 2) For customers, the immediate test is whether the April and May rollouts actually cut the number of handoffs between chat, documents, customer records and cloud tools. Salesforce and Google are betting that fewer tabs — not just smarter models — will decide which AI products companies buy next. (salesforce.com)