] [TechWeb June 11, according to foreign media reports, from the beginning of the second half of last year, the Internet industry there have been more than generous size of the acquisition of more than 10 billion US dollars, first "Big Blue" IBM and open source solutions provider Red Hat (Red Hat) announced a $ 34 billion takeover agreement in October 28, followed by the US financial technology provider Fiserv in January this year announced that it agreed to $ 22 billion all-stock transaction to acquire payment processing company first Data (first Data Corp), but to March, the US financial services company Fidelity National InformationServices (FIS) has agreed to pay about $ 35 billion acquisition of the company Worldpay.
And now, the scale of the Internet industry in turn appear together more than 10 billion US dollars acquisition, customer relationship management software developer has announced the Salesforce platform with analysis Tableau entered into a definitive acquisition agreement, the transaction valued at $ 15.7 billion.
Salesforce and Tableau are in local time Monday, the official website announced that they have signed a definitive purchase agreement.
According to a definitive purchase agreement the two companies reached, Salesforce will acquire all of the outstanding shares of the company Tableau through a share swap, specifically, Tableau company's Class A common shares and per share Class B common stock will be exchanged Salesforce company worth up to $ 15.7 billion after 1.103 shares of common stock at an average price of the three trading days as of June 7, and this acquisition converted into cash.
Tableau set up time is not long, it is Pat Hanrahan (Pat Hanrahan), who founded in January 2003, still only 16 years, which is a pioneer in self-analysis service provided by analysis platform allows any level people can deal with data, after ten years of development, which currently has a huge customer base in the world, including Verizon (Verizon), Netflix (Netflix) of over 86,000 companies and organizations rely on Tableau help them see and understand data.
Tableau's annual report shows that in 2018 revenue of $ 1.155 billion. The May 2 release of a quarterly filing, Tableau revenue in the first quarter of this year was $ 282.5 million, up 15%;
Salesforce is the world's largest developer of customer relationship management software, Tableau is the world's largest platform for analysis, the acquisition of Tableau, Salesforce will change the market to play a greater role in digital, Salesforce will also promote the digital conversion market for more opportunity. Market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) had previously expected increase in global technology and services spending will make digital conversion market reached $ 18,000 in 2022.
After the acquisition of Tableau, Salesforce company's overall revenue is also expected to increase, information which is published in the official website on the show, this transaction is expected to enable it to fiscal year 2020 revenue increased by $ 350 million to $ 400 million, the entire 2020 revenue is expected to be between $ 16.45 billion to $ 16.65 billion, an increase of 24% to 25%.
The two companies in the information released by the official website also showed that after the acquisition of Salesforce redemption Tableau, Tableau will remain as an independent brand continue to operate independently and continue to realize their vision, will remain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, will continue from the current CEO Adam 塞利普斯基 (Adam Selipsky) and is currently the team leader.
Salesforce and the Board of Tableau, have now been approved definitive purchase agreements reached before the two companies, the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of Salesforce (31 October 2019).