Salesforce's $15.7 billion purchase of Tableau is arguably the most strategic move the company has made, as it fleshes out its master plan to offer a 360-degree view of the customer and become a de ...

Traditional business intelligence (BI) tools have become a bottleneck, demanding too much IT involvement. With businesses increasingly resource strapped, devolving BI to information workers is ...

Tableau Software will release a big update to its business intelligence software in the coming weeks, promising that customers will be able to spend more time on data analysis and less on “data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Cohan, a Boston-based senior contributor, covers stocks. Salesforce announced June 10 that it would pay a whopping $14.6 ...

Salesforce is acquiring Tableau, a publicly traded data-visualization company, for $15.7 billion. Tableau's price tag makes it considerably more expensive than Salesforce's most recent ...