Nestlé will phase out its company-wide deployment of Salesforce Chatter as it deploys Facebook’s Workplace enterprise social network.

The Swiss firm – the world’s largest food company by revenue – chose Workplace to connect staff and support communications across its complex operations. Nestlé owns more than 2,000 brands, has a presence in 191 countries and employs approximately 323,000 workers.

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The company had previously relied on an implementation of Salesforce’s Chatter – dubbed “NestChatter” internally – as its social communications platform. The rollout was the “largest Salesforce Chatter deployment ever,” said Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff during a 2013 earnings call.

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