Salesforce Bets on Big Data With $15.3 Billion Tableau Buy (cnbc.com) 26
Salesforce on Monday decided to buy big data firm Tableau Software for $15.3 billion, marking the biggest acquisition in the company's history as it looks to offer more data insights to its clients. From a report: Seattle-based Tableau has more than 86,000 customers, including tech heavyweights such as Verizon and Netflix. As part of the all-stock deal, Tableau shareholders will get 1.103 Salesforce shares, valuing the offer at $177.88 per share, representing a premium of 42% to Tableau's Friday closing price. Salesforce's deal comes days after Alphabet's Google big-data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion and surpasses the $5.9 billion that the cloud-based software company paid to buy U.S. software maker MuleSoft in 2018.
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Someone who blackmails their customers.
https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
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We were using Salesforce as our CRM, but have switched to a self-hosted SuiteCRM instead. It does everything we need it to and the switch wasn't all that hard. Granted, there was a lot that Salesforce does that we just didn't need.
We would not have switched had it not been for them blackmailing customers.
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Someone who blackmails their customers. https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
That's not, strictly speaking, blackmail. Blackmail involves the threat of revealing non-public information. I'm not really sure what to call this. An attempt to extort political objectives out of your customers? If they had always had such a policy you wouldn't call it anything because then Camping World would never have been a customer to begin with.
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coerce then.
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This is the beginning of the end. When crackpot managers start playing games like this, they must not anticipate much in the way of future growth.
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I hope they got some DB admins in this buy. They took most of NA offline for a day thanks to someone running a bad update script on the production database just a few weeks back...
Based on the example you gave, acquisitions like this make it more likely outages will happen. Salesforce's acquisition of Pardot in 2013 was the root cause of that bad update script having an effect on Salesforce's core application stack. Salesforce recently increased the permissions integrations with Pardot, because while they are owned by Salesforce their technology stack has not been merged with the core Salesforce platform. That integration allowed a faulty database script in Pardot to affect the core
Becoming a major software firm (Score:2)
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Salesforce has a large presence in my city, so I've talked with employees who don't seem to think the company is real well managed, so this buying spree maybe headed for storm clouds later.
Considering the success Salesforce has had, it's more likely they just disagree with management rather that the company being poorly managed. I work with Salesforce software, and I consistently get frustrated with their developer tools. But I understand making developers happy is not their primary focus. Features that sales, service, and marketing directors care about have always been more important than features like integrated source code control. I may disagree a bit with that focus (or at least the degr
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The more you delete, the more I'll call you on it. (Score:3)
That's two of mine deleted today. Man up, Slashdot, and admit you're censoring -- beyond the moderation. You're outright deleting posts, signed posts, not just AC garbage.
Delete this one. Go ahead.
Spamforce? (Score:2)
Yeah, they're that bad. (apparently $15 billion worse now) Throw their domain & sending ips in the filter & watch spam volume recd go down.