Monday, June 10, 2019

Salesforce +=Tableau - $15.7B

very expensive...

Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal | TechCrunch

"On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) tools to help enterprises make sense of the sea of data that they use and amass: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7 billion in an all-stock deal."


Revenue  US$ 877 million (2017)[1]
Net income US$ 5,873,000 (2014)[2]
Number of employees 4,181 (May 2019)[3]
Website tableau.com


"The Tableau deal dwarfs the company’s previous largest acquisition, application integration provider Mulesoft, which Salesforce bought for $6.5 billion in 2018. Other notable acquisitions include customer service platform Demandware, which it bought for $2.8 billion in 2016 and forms the basis of its Commerce Cloud product for e-commerce functions, and Heroku, an app development technology it bought for $212 million in 2010."