Birdly (YC W16) Lets You Use Slack to Easily Access Data From Other Enterprise Apps

by Y Combinator3/3/2016

More and more companies are using Slack as a core communication tool, to help simplify their workflows and do more things in one central place.

Birdly is a startup in our current Winter 2016 class that helps companies do that even more, by allowing them to access customer data stored in other enterprise apps such as Salesforce and Zendesk inside their corporate Slack channels.

TechCrunch’s Matthew Lynley wrote about Birdly in a recent story:

“The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s
willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an
app like Expensify is now Birdly, a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesforce and Zendesk.

‘It was really difficult for companies to adopt [the app] because you
had to relegate to another mobile app, another password to remember,
another process,’ Hoang said. ‘The second problem we had was for the
manager and CFO, it was another tool to deploy, and just doing it on top
of Slack is much easier because you just need two minutes and everyone
can use it.’

Slack administrators log in to their accounts that they want to link
to Birdly, like Stripe, Zendesk or Salesforce, and then anyone can use
the bot to call up information from that account. They request info from
the bot, which then returns it in-line in Slack, with an option to jump
to those various services for more information.”

Read the full story on TechCrunch here.

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