They are going to work on their existing tool and contribute to Quip broadly. was working on a compelling productivity tool, so we are buying their IP and team. More radical changes may be waiting in the wings, after last month's acquisition of three-man design studio Unity&Variety, whose principals previously worked alongside Quip founder and CEO Bret Taylor at Facebook, where they subsequently worked on the 2014 redesign of Messenger. The Quip user interface has also had a makeover to its sidebar and contextual menus to improve usability. Delivered as a Lightning component that can also be built into custom applications on the Salesforce platform, it lets people attach Quip task lists, documents and spreadsheets to Salesforce records to help manage their work. This brings live data from Salesforce into Quip documents, as well as making Quip functionality available directly within Salesforce applications. This week's announcement also confirms the forthcoming availability of Quip Connect, which next week will introduce features originally trailed at Dreamforce last October. This is functionality that used to require an entire separate application, now embedded as a feature set within a multi-purpose digital document. These reminders can either act as standalone due dates for individual tasks such as updating a document or reviewing a spreadsheet row, or they can form part of a checklist used to manage an entire team project. This new functionality in Quip means that as well as embedding links to other documents and adding inline to notify colleagues or assign tasks to them, there's now a calendar function for setting reminders and due dates (see screenshot at top of story). Nothing illustrates this better than the new checklists and reminders Quip has embedded into its documents and spreadsheets. Its mission is similar to those of Box Notes and Dropbox Paper, which both, as I recently outlined when comparing the two, act as a connected canvas for collaboration. While Conga still works within a classic document structure, Quip's latest makeover emphasizes a fundamental break with traditional document formats. The other is Quip, the collaborative document tool acquired by Salesforce last year, which streamlines internal collaboration. One is Conga Composer, a third-party tool for integrating Salesforce data into documents for presentation to customers. Two separate document tools in the Salesforce ecosystem that both had upgrades this week provide useful pointers to the digital transformation of the business document. Microsoft Word won't perish in the heat of a competitive battle for supremacy, it will quietly slope off to extinction in its own evolutionary backwater. An entirely new document metaphor is emerging, making yesterday's document creation tools irrelevant. To frame what is happening in such terms is to miss the point. Some observers think of next-generation document collaboration tools such as Dropbox Paper, Box Notes and Salesforce Quip as 'Microsoft Word killers'. Today's business users need something much more powerful than a mere digital doppelganger of yesterday's paper documents. The old-school electronic document is going the way of the horseless carriage. Paper-based for centuries, it's finally beginning to turn digital - and as it does so, it's morphing into an entirely new form and function. Something very interesting is happening to the humble document.
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