Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.7B, betting on business data in deal for Seattle tech mainstay

Salesforce will buy Tableau Software for $15.7 billion in an all-stock deal announced Monday morning, doubling down on data visualization and business intelligence with a deal for one of Seattle’s longest-running enterprise technology brands.

The all-stock deal would be the largest acquisition in the history of the San Francisco-based cloud giant, more than double the $6.5 billion Salesforce paid for MuleSoft last year. The acquisition comes just days after Google announced its the $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker, which makes business-intelligence software for data analysis.