Salesforce buying Tableau as businesses embrace data

Salesforce, a maker of customer-management software, is buying Tableau Software in an all-stock deal valued at $15.7 billion.Cloud computing giants Microsoft and Amazon offer similar insights, and Google stepped up its game last week when it announced it was acquiring private data analytics firm Looker for $2.6 billion to expand its Google Cloud business.It's part of a "democratization of business intelligence" using software tools that work like "Microsoft Excel on steroids," Baird analyst Rob