hey deborah i did something new today let me guess did you learn how to make sourdough bread no i read a newspaper oh did you learn anything there yeah there was this interesting article in the wall street journal about how companies are struggling with work from home it seems projects are taking longer and collaboration is proving to be really difficult too bad we don't have something to help our customers with these problems but doug as of today we do the new ppm collaboration application is a perfect solution and it's available now in the servicenow store the first release of the ppm collaboration app provides ppm and slack integration that enables project managers team members and stakeholders to collaborate in real time over a slack channel created for the project let's take a look first we'll log into servicenow ppm as a project manager paul martin part of his project checklist includes enabling the slack integration to do this he simply clicks on the enable slack collaboration related link on the project details page and just like that the integration will create a new slack channel for this project we'll log into slack now as paul as soon as he logs in he sees the new slack channel for his project paul can see project collaborators and people are automatically added to the channel when they're assigned a project task in servicenow that's so cool also using slack functionality the team can share and view documents that have been uploaded here and servicenow will send a notification to the slack channel whenever a ridak item is created this keeps the team informed about all risks issues decisions actions and changes and the project slack channel team will automatically get a daily project status message which will include the project overall status tasks due and any delayed tasks the csm implementation project has one project planning task due today there are three overdue tasks and two other project tasks have been delayed wow that is really going to keep the teams in slack informed and allow them to be more productive from home the wall street journal should write about that you want to know what else is cool when the project manager closes the project the slack tunnel will automatically be archived 15 days later with ppm collaboration providing out of the box integration to slack we are going to enable customers to improve their project performance and collaboration regardless of where people are working the ppm collaboration app is compatible with our orlando and paris releases look for it on the servicenow store today