Daily Crunch: Salesforce is buying Tableau

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal This is a huge deal for Salesforce as the […] Continue reading Daily Crunch: Salesforce is buying Tableau

Qubole launches Quantum, its serverless database engine

Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offering. Qubole may not necessarily be a household name, but its customers include the likes of Autodesk, Comcast, Lyft, Nextdoor and Zillow . For these users, Qubole […] Continue reading Qubole launches Quantum, its serverless database engine

With Tableau and Mulesoft, Salesforce gains full view of enterprise data

Back in the 2010 timeframe, it was common to say that content was king, but after watching Google buy Looker for $2.6 billion last week and Salesforce nab Tableau for $15.7 billion this morning, it’s clear that data has ascended to the throne in a business context. We have been hearing about Big Data for […] Continue reading With Tableau and Mulesoft, Salesforce gains full view of enterprise data

Salesforce is officially making Seattle its second headquarters with its Tableau acquisition

Here’s an interesting by-product the news today that Salesforce would be acquiring Tableau for $15.7 billion: the company is going to make Seattle, Washington (home of Tableau) the official second headquarters of San Francisco-based Salesforce, putting the company directly in the face of tech giants and Salesforce frenemies Microsoft and Amazon. “An HQ2, if you […] Continue reading Salesforce is officially making Seattle its second headquarters with its Tableau acquisition

Tableau gets AI shot in the arm with Empirical Systems acquisition

When Tableau was founded back in 2003, not many people were thinking about artificial intelligence to drive analytics and visualization, but over the years the world has changed and the company recognized that it needed talent to keep up with new trends. Today, it announced it was acquiring Empirical Systems, an early stage startup with […] Continue reading Tableau gets AI shot in the arm with Empirical Systems acquisition

AWS launches pay-per-session pricing for its QuickSight BI tool

Amazon QuickSight, the company’s business intelligence tool for AWS, launched back in 2015, but it’s hard to say how much impact the service has made in the highly competitive BI market. The company has far from given up on this project, though, and today, it’s introducing a new pay-per-session pricing plan for access to QuickSight dashboards that […] Continue reading AWS launches pay-per-session pricing for its QuickSight BI tool

Tableau gets new pricing plans and a data preparation tool

Data analytics platform Tableau today announced the launch of both a new data preparation product and a new subscription pricing plan. Currently, Tableau offers desktop plans for users who want to analyze their data locally, a server plan for businesses that want to deploy the service on-premises or on a cloud platform, and a fully […] Continue reading Tableau gets new pricing plans and a data preparation tool

5 Things We Need from ACL in 2018

Here’s the 5 things I’m hoping will change in 2018 regarding ACL. They are all related to each other and feed off each other… Interesting. One) The ACL Analytics user interface (UI) finds a good plastic surgeon. While I have crit… Continue reading 5 Things We Need from ACL in 2018

Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a startup that lets you analyze your data using natural language

 Business intelligence and analytics firm Tableau today announced that it has acquired ClearGraph, a service that lets you query and visualize large amounts of business date through natural language queries (think “this week’s transactions over $500”). Tableau expects to integrate this technology with its own products as it looks to make it easier for its users to use… Read More Continue reading Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a startup that lets you analyze your data using natural language

Tableau scores advanced database tech with acquisition of German startup HyPer

Close up of hand on tablet with business intelligence data displayed. Tableau announced today that it has acquired early-stage startup HyPer, which has developed an advanced database technology that Tableau intends to incorporate into its product set.
Tableau is a business intelligence and analytics company, taking business data and helping companies make sense of it. The new HyPer database technology should provide a performance boost across Tableau products… Read More Continue reading Tableau scores advanced database tech with acquisition of German startup HyPer