Slack signage is displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company's iPO in 2019. This shift is going to have a significant impact on the tech stacks CIOs are building to support workers. He’s referring to the stress and frustration employees experience when they are forced to launch many different software applications to get their jobs done and then to toggle frequently between them. Hence growing demand amongst tech leaders for everything from collaboration tools to data analytics capabilities and project management software to work seamlessly together. Edward Wagoner still sees a role for best-of-breed applications in workforce tech stacks, as do many other tech leaders.

Source: Forbes December 02, 2020 17:03 UTC