Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B

Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by samstave on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:07PM (#20151728)

Looker is way better than tableau.

Lets break it down:

Both are over priced

Lookeer, however has LookerML

Tableau obfuscates all code.

Looker has easier bolt-ons to redshift/postgres

Tableau's BI tool-set is weaker than looker, albeit, wider spread (more mature)

So, I think google got a steal and SF is playing catch-up... at a high cost.

Plus SF's sunk costs in eveything is going to make a 15B buy take at least two decades to pay off....

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Re:Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B by CGamesPlay on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:04AM (#20154105)

I disagree with you! Looker is more advanced, and that does not mean it is better. Tableau’s tools were MUCH easier for me to make ad hoc analyses with, as well as to create dashboard with. Yes, there were some transformations that I couldn’t apply and had to go to custom SQL or ETL for, but the total time to finish my analyses and produce high-quality live dashboards was much less than with Looker.

(I don’t know why you are being downvoted though, you’re entitled to an opinion same as me)

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