Last year we saw evidence of this with the $6.5 billion acquisition of MuleSoft. And of course, this week Salesforce.com agreed to pay a whopping $15 billion for Tableau Software, which is a leader in the fast-growing market for BI (Business Intelligence). Google agreed to shell out $2.6 billion for Looker (here’s my post about the deal for Forbes.com). Moving beyond these multibillion data analytics transactions, what will be the next area of focus in the data industry? Large players are making bold moves to ensure they have an control the BI capability within their product suites.

Source: Forbes June 11, 2019 15:11 UTC