Salesforce swallows Tableau in US$15.3bn buy

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Salesforce swallows Tableau in US$15.3bn buy

Muscles up to Microsoft Corp in analytics, data visualisation.

Salesforce.com Inc agreed on Monday to buy big data firm Tableau Software Inc for US$15.3 billion, adding muscle in its fight with Microsoft Corp for a bigger share of the market that helps businesses target customers with tools to analyse and visualize data. The business of analysing data is ...

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