Another reminder that Oracle got a screaming deal for Sun at a net $5.6 billion in 2009. Either that or Salesforce has more money than brains.
Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
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Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#132Another reminder that Oracle got a screaming deal for Sun at a net $5.6 billion in 2009. Either that or Salesforce has more money than brains.
It's a stock deal, and Salesforce seems a bit stretched in valuation, so I'm sure the deal isn't going to end up being this high.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, the business users can combine data sources and do joins. Instead of waiting for IT to produce the right views.
At big companies if you have to go through IT, it isn't uncommon that you might not get the views for 2-3 years.
I once accidentally spawned a five-person department at a Fortune 50 company because I threw together a Django app that integrated with Active Directory and dynamically displayed a few reports that were relevant to the logged-in user's role in the organization.
I was in Corporate Strategy, and one of the C-level execs saw it. They realized that I could add new reports in a few days by myself instead of going through IT, and within a year they'd hired a new manager to run my little group and three others developers - who weren't technically developers, because we weren't part of IT.
For another ~3 years, the company's primary reporting tool for front-line operations employees lived on a repurposed desktop being used as a server that was plugged in under my desk. We did get a nice, beefy SQL Server and a decent UPS, so it wasn't a complete shoestring project.
I left shortly after IT discovered they'd been cut out of the loop on a critical business process and demanded that the whole system be rewritten in C#.
Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of companies use Tableau to visualize their data. In the future if they want to use Tableau they (speculation) might have to host their data in SalesForce and/or be directed to use a number of other SalesForce features if they want the latest coolest dashboards. To me this acquisition seems be a play toward growing customer usage of SalesForce licensed functions and data migration to their cloud, rather than ba…
My company is using Einstein Analytics, however, other than the Salesforce integration has been a terrible disappointing experience. Loading data is a pain and has to be done to a custom API. Of course Einstein analytics need to have it is own language called SAQL resulting in a steep learning curve.
yeah i put in another comment that this acquisition is a vote of non confidence in Einstein Analytics. You may see it phased out in the next few years.
Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#135If we look at Gartner's Analytics & BI magic quadrant from Feb 2019 ( https://www.qlik.com/us/-/media/B0DCF50C816448EEAC8981B02387... ) it becomes clear that Tableau(Salesforce) & PowerBI(Microsoft) are the driving force in the area. The move to buy Tableau likely comes from an interest in enhancing cross-compatibility between Salesforce+Tableau, the ability to provide a more robust service offering that can compete…
I’ve used PowerBI but it feels extremely limiting if you have a coder background. Don’t know a single person who likes the BI tools that exists today and I’ve worked with a lot of BI people. I’m convinced BI people becomes coders solely because of the bad tools that exists today. Intelligent autocompletion, git and strong types? No! But here, have some drag and drop!
Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, the business users can combine data sources and do joins. Instead of waiting for IT to produce the right views.
At big companies if you have to go through IT, it isn't uncommon that you might not get the views for 2-3 years.
when i scope projects for clients if I have to engage with their IT department I add 6-8 weeks of implementation minimum. Anything from getting a CSR signed to SSO integration is always an excruciating experience. Going over the SOW and hitting on that item always results in a slow, exhausted, but accepting sigh from the client.
Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of companies use Tableau to visualize their data. In the future if they want to use Tableau they (speculation) might have to host their data in SalesForce and/or be directed to use a number of other SalesForce features if they want the latest coolest dashboards. To me this acquisition seems be a play toward growing customer usage of SalesForce licensed functions and data migration to their cloud, rather than ba…
My company is using Einstein Analytics, however, other than the Salesforce integration has been a terrible disappointing experience. Loading data is a pain and has to be done to a custom API. Of course Einstein analytics need to have it is own language called SAQL resulting in a steep learning curve.
Yeah SalesForce NEEDS Tableau. It is like a missing puzzle piece in their suite. Einstein is essentially enhanced reporting for SalesForce even though they sell it as an analytics tool.
Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
At big companies if you have to go through IT, it isn't uncommon that you might not get the views for 2-3 years.
I once accidentally spawned a five-person department at a Fortune 50 company because I threw together a Django app that integrated with Active Directory and dynamically displayed a few reports that were relevant to the logged-in user's role in the organization. I was in Corporate Strategy, and one of the C-level execs saw it. They realized that I could add new reports in a few days by myself instead of going through…
"I left shortly after IT discovered they'd been cut out of the loop on a critical business process and demanded that the whole system be rewritten in C#."
been there, done that. you have to get them on the phone early and do the whole "oh you're so great" song and dance to prevent ego bruising.
Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#139Dear techcrunch: I will NOT disable my adblock
Re: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
#140Wow, Looker last week and now Tableau. I’m only 90 days in to running the open source equivalent inside GitLab, and these big revenue multiples are telling a fascinating story. I would’ve loved to be a fly on the wall for this negotiation, what a great outcome for Tableau shareholders! With all that’s happening we’re definitely looking to pick up the pace, and would love to work with more contributors on the free ope…
Exactly what we’ve been looking for. An open source ETL tool. This looks great. Will check it out for sure. Keep up the great work. I wonder if there are any other open source tools in this space?
I'm building one called Ohayo: https://github.com/breck7/ohayo
It is still beta but should be ready to go in weeks.
Here's an example of the top 100 stories on Hacker News:
https://ohayo.computer?filename=help-for-hackernews.top.flow...