IBM, Salesforce expand partnership by combining platforms

IBM and Salesforce announced they are building on their partnership by combining IBM Cloud and Watson services with Salesforce Quip and Salesforce Service Cloud Einstein. As part of the collaboration, IBM will build IBM Watson Quip Live Apps, merging the power of Watson and Quip. Using these apps, customers will be able to leverage Watson's cognitive computing abilities when using Quip's document creation and editing platform. According to the companies, the combination of the platforms will provide new AI-driven recommendations for next best actions. IBM and Salesforce originally announced they were joining forces in March 2017.