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Business intelligence software

• August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19

  The Salesforce acquisition of Tableau complements Einstein Analytics

  Given the different strengths of Salesforce's Einstein Analytics platform and Tableau, the BI tools could prove complementary now that Tableau is part of Salesforce.

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  Reveal moves Infragistics BI platform into embedded analytics

  With the release of Reveal, an embedded business intelligence platform, longtime software vendor Infragistics is expanding its presence in the analytics space.

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  Deal boosts MicroStrategy platform's foray into government

  Through its new deal with ImmixGroup, a distributor of enterprise software to the public sector, MicroStrategy aims to increase sales of its BI platform to government agencies.

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  Splunk Business Flow evidences company's heightened focus on BI

  Long known as a data security and IT monitoring vendor, Splunk is honing its data analytics tools and making the foray into business intelligence.

• August 02, 2019 02 Aug'19

  Merger and acquisition activity is altering the BI landscape

  From Qlik's acquisition of Podium Data in July 2018 through Salesforce's purchase of Tableau Software in June 2019, the last year in BI has been characterized by a wave of consolidation.

• July 29, 2019 29 Jul'19

  Looker's acquisition by Google seen in a good light for users

  Overshadowed at the time by Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, a few months later, Google's acquisition of Looker is still seen as a major positive for Looker's users.

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  IBM battling to change perception of Cognos Analytics BI platform

  While some see IBM's BI suite as being too complicated and expensive for citizen data scientists, the company is adding updates to try and attract the modern user.

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  Independent vendors Qlik, MicroStrategy upgrade BI platforms

  Independent business intelligence and analytics vendors Qlik and MicroStrategy update their platforms in a move to stay ahead of their competition.

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  Music data visualization comes to life in Tableau collection

  With its new collection of visualizations about music, Tableau demonstrates how users are using its platform to understand the information behind the music.

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Power BI update firms up Microsoft analytics market

  With its latest update to Power BI, Microsoft showed its commitment to its business intelligence platform and maintained its position as an industry leader.

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  MicroStrategy product development advances after Voice.com sale

  Analytics and BI vendor MicroStrategy sells the Voice.com domain name and moves forward with product R&D in a competitive market that is consolidating quickly.

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  How the Salesforce acquisition will affect Tableau users

  In the wake of Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, it remains to be seen whether Tableau users will be pushed to the cloud and how Tableau's pace of innovation might be affected.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Google acquisition of Looker to boost Google Cloud analytics

  By acquiring Looker, Google will enhance its analytics and BI capabilities available through Google Cloud, while becoming a formidable force in the enterprise-level BI space.

• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  Latest Tableau BI software update upgrades map technology

  Tableau Software has released Tableau 2019.2, an update to previous BI software. It includes upgrades to location data, new vector maps and other requested upgrades.

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  Attunity acquisition expands data management for Qlik users

  Qlik's acquisition of Attunity is another sign of the BI vendor's data management ambitions -- and may help attract new users that want to unify big data and analytics.