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Leave it to Salesforce to buy the clunky incumbent, not Periscope



Thats because market penetration and revenue matters more than a few CSS animations


And enterprise sales.



They are arguably essentially buying revenue to help their bottom line. Salesforce hopes to add $350-400M to their FY20 revenue


That's a pretty steep price to pay for a single-digit % increase in revenue. I view this more as filling a strategic hole. BI & Analytics from Salesforce are awful.


I don't know much about company account structures and finance dynamics, but that doesn't sound like much compared to the $15.7bn price?


Can you elaborate on the advantages of Periscope? I've used Tableau, but not Periscope. Browsing their site & marketing materials, it's not really clear to me how they're much different from Tableau.




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