Month: June 2019

Why Salesforce’s Acquisition of Tableau is Confusing and Straightforward at the Same Time, Days After Looker Acquisition

I’ll see your $2.6 billion and raise you $15.7 billion.  Today, Salesforce.com (CRM) announced a major deal to acquire Tableau Software, a company so synonymous with data, their stock symbol is DATA.  This follows last week’s major reveal that Google Cloud is buying Looker, another top data analytics player.  It’s hard to know if these …

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Google Cloud Just Became the #1 Data Analytics Platform This Week with Looker, Snowflake Deals

We can’t overstate the significance of the two most recent announcements out of Google Cloud.  When the press release came out yesterday that Snowflake was bringing its popular data warehouse service to Google Cloud, it wasn’t particularly surprising. After all, Snowflake is already available on AWS and Azure.  However, with today’s major announcement that Google …

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