When Salesforce spent almost $16 billion to buy Tableau in 2019, it was getting a company with a goal of bringing data to the masses. As a cloud solution, it fits nicely into the growing ...

Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay's biggest challenge: ensuring that Tableau maintains its unique approach, identity, and focus inside Salesforce.

Salesforce success with Tableau will depend on continued investment in cloud migration, augmented analytics and deeper centralized data-governance and data-modeling capabilities.

Salesforce is integrating with the Slack and Tableau platforms to generate synergies for speed, insights and collaboration.