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• How Tableau is fitting into the Salesforce family

  Salesforce has been talking up the capabilities of the analytics vendor but any vision of the future for the combined vendors remains muddy.

• The big picture from Tableau Conference 2019

  More AI, more preparation, more cloud integration were the key takeaways from the analytics platform maker’s annual event.

• How Salesforce’s Tableau acquisition will impact IT

  Salesforce.com’s $15.7 billion bid for Tableau Software has many organisations wondering how the proposed acquisition will impact their operations.

• Analysts react to Salesforce Tableau grab

  In what will be the largest acquisition in Salesforce history, “the move is not a big surprise,” according to Forrester VP and principal analyst Liz Herbert, speaking about the US $15.7 billion acquisition of analytics platform vendor Tableau.

• Salesforce to acquire Tableau

  Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire analytics platform vendor Tableau in a US$15.7 billion deal.

• ‘Affinity’ for change: Childcare operator across Australia seeks greater insights

  Affinity Education Group has set its sights on analytics and data visualisation in a bid to gain customised insights into its 170 childcare centres across Australia for better decision-making and planning. It may even have a three-year head start on its competitors.

• Tableau talks up natural language interface for creating visualisations

  BI vendor seeks to simplify and automate data analysis as part of a growing trend toward injecting AI capabilities into BI tools.

• How Data School Australia aims to train next generation of data analysts

  A new Sydney training college for data analysts and data scientists is set to open in Pyrmont in August, a move that aims to address the skills crisis in Australia.

• Tableau 9.0 beta rolls out

  Tableau will showcase beta version 9.0 of its data visualization and analysis software to a large group of customers today, touting features that include drag-and-drop analytics as well as data-preparation features that formerly had to be done outside the application.

• How LinkedIn uses data to drive sales

  Sales representatives at LinkedIn are using data from the professional social media website to help customers with hiring and marketing.

• Data analytics keeps tabs on Victorian cabbies

  The Taxi Services Commission (TSC) of Victoria is using a data warehouse to access the data of more than 100 million trips made by taxi drivers in the state over the past 2.5 years.

• In pictures: Tableau on Tour Melbourne

  Tableau's annual conference came to Melbourne this year. Delegates heard insights from technology futurist Chris Riddell and Tableau CMO Elissa Fink.

• How Amaysim used analytics to engage management

  Mobile provider Amaysim needed to develop a business intelligence (BI) strategy but didn’t want to subject its management team to static PowerPoint presentations about BI.

• Microstrategy simplifies licensing, pricing in bid for growth

  Hoping to win new business and build loyalty among existing customers, business intelligence software vendor MicroStrategy has broadly revamped its pricing and packaging structure.

• Oracle selling $10 billion in bonds, giving hint to buying spree

  Oracle is selling US$10 billion in bonds, in a move that could signal the vendor is planning to ramp up its already steady pace of acquisitions.