Salesforce acquisition of Tableau

Its Customer Data + Analytics + Visualization on the cloud

Salesforce acquiring of big data firm Tableau is aimed at offering more data insights to its clients. The acquisition will accelerate Salesforce customer 360 initiative, which will help companies get a complete view of their customers

Why Salesforce acquired Tableau?

Data visualization market is huge. This technology stack was missing in Salesforce analytics platform. Data Analytics will be the core of Salesforce offerings going forward.

Salesforce Einstein

Tableau is the latest of Salesforce acquisition to bolster its Analytics / AI platform Einstein. CRM Platform creates massive sales data and customers need specialist Data scientists to work on this and predict outcomes. Demand ware and beyond core were the earlier acquisition in bolstering the Einstein platform and Tableau should be seen as an important components to this.

Analytics cloud

With Tableau, Salesforce can deepen its integrated analytics stack in its own cloud, by providing customers a place to analyse it in a single place, without the need for migrating to other clouds.

Customer 360

Salesforce is focusing on customer 360 as the cross cloud technology to make marketing, commerce and service products work together in the cloud and Tableau acquisition will fill the void in visualization and Self service BI.
This acquisition will reinforce Salesforce position in the Analytics market.