How Tableau is fitting into the Salesforce family
Salesforce has been talking up the capabilities of the analytics vendor but any vision of the future for the combined vendors remains muddy.
Salesforce has been talking up the capabilities of the analytics vendor but any vision of the future for the combined vendors remains muddy.
More AI, more preparation, more cloud integration were the key takeaways from the analytics platform maker’s annual event.
Salesforce.com’s $15.7 billion bid for Tableau Software has many organisations wondering how the proposed acquisition will impact their operations.
In what will be the largest acquisition in Salesforce history, “the move is not a big surprise,” according to Forrester VP and principal analyst Liz Herbert, speaking about the US $15.7 billion acquisition of analytics platform vendor Tableau.
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire analytics platform vendor Tableau in a US$15.7 billion deal.
There’s not much use in presenting data through convoluted, cluttered-looking reports that could make a person instantly fall asleep. That’s the view of Pat Hanrahan, who has spent most of his life working on data visualisations and beautiful images.