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Slack's built-in AI assistant that works within chats and channels, now extended with access to third-party app integrations like Adobe Creative Cloud tools.
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The Model Context Protocol integration lets Slack Business+ and Enterprise+ users create and edit in Photoshop or Premiere without opening either, which makes the chat window the surface Adobe now designs for.
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Adobe's Slack app opens the same tool set it shipped to OpenAI's platform, and it runs for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers without requiring an Adobe account. Slack's invoice is the one that unlocks it.
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The Adobe for Slack MCP app lets Slackbot read a channel and then call Photoshop or Firefly. That makes the rollout a Slack contract question before it is ever an Adobe licensing question, and it lets people start with no Adobe account at all.
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cRPO of $33.5bn, up 14%, is the metric the market trades on. $440m of Informatica revenue now sits inside the subscription line that feeds it. Back out the current portion and the remainder grew about 8%.
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Contracted revenue due in the next twelve months grew 14%, faster than the full book. But the $200 million guidance raise is, arithmetically, the two pending acquisitions.
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A 17 percent billings quarter against 9 percent revenue is the live public test of AI repackaging on seat pricing. The margin cost was about $640,000; the retention ceiling looks like 106 percent.
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Slack shipped agent-run code channels on every plan. The bug-to-ship path can now skip the human engineer, and only "high-stakes actions" are gated.
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Slack launched Slack Code on August 20, putting coding agents into project-based channels. The question for engineering leaders is now where agent work lives, not which agent to buy.
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