Slack and Oracle recently collaborated to bring together Slack’s team messaging capability and Oracle’s new intelligent bot-builder capability. Oracle’s chatbot capability lets people use natural language processing (NLP) to ask questions about a specific use case, and the chatbot can respond by pulling information from a back-end or enterprise application system, such as ERP, human resources, or the company directory. So if you’re having a discussion within Slack, you will be able to stay within that Slack interface and ask a bot, “What’s our current production backlog?” or “What’s our marketing VP’s contact information?”