IBM Brings Artificial Intelligence to Salesforce Quip, Box's London HQ, More News

One of the biggest news items in the digital workplace this week was the announcement of IBM and Salesforce's deepening partnership, with new integrations between IBM Cloud, Watson Services, Salesforce Quip and Service Cloud Einstein. The two companies announced their initial partnership last March. It envisaged a combination of Armonk, New York-based IBM Watson's capabilities with San Francisco-based Salesforce's CRM data to allow businesses to glean insights across structured and unstructured data. As part of this announcement, Salesforce named IBM a preferred cloud services provider, making IBM the third major provider to be named "preferred." The company first named AWS its preferred cloud provider in May 2016.