Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B

Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by bardam on Monday June 10, 2019 @09:41AM (#20146621)

Qlik was sold to Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, about two years ago for $3B.

Not sure if that's a relative bargain compared to this deal or if it makes the $15.7B look totally unrealistic. As of a few years ago the total revenue of the two firms wasn't that different.

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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by dgudkov on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:27AM (#20146998)

I've heard that Thoma Bravo specializes on re-selling assets. If that's true then the $15bln sticker on Tableau should only justify and boost their intention to re-sell Qlik.

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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by chrisjc on Monday June 10, 2019 @12:44PM (#20148363)

Haven't heard much about Qlik lately. A few years ago we were evaluating Birst and Qlik, and have since settled on Looker and Tableau.

Birst end up getting acquired too. https://www.infor.com/news/infor-to-acquire-birst-infor

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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by mbesto on Monday June 10, 2019 @06:23PM (#20151465)

> I've heard that Thoma Bravo specializes on re-selling assets.

This is true, because Thoma is a PE firm and is literally in the business of acquiring and selling companies.

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