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Salesforce’s Tableau renews Fremont office lease, signaling long-term Seattle commitment

The renewal continues Tableau’s long association with Fremont, where the company added offices over the years to accommodate its rapid growth before its $15.7 billion acquisition by Salesforce in 2019. Read More

Tech Moves: Salesforce names president; Microsoft execs coming and going; Amazon departures

A pair of Microsoft security executives are on the move — one headed to Salesforce, one returning to fill the vacancy. Meanwhile, two Amazon veterans are calling it quits at the company. Read More

Tech Moves: Tableau CEO steps down; Microsoft taps new executive VPs; Avanade’s new CEO

Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay departs Salesforce after 19 years, hinting at a “new challenge” ahead. His exit follows other recent leadership departures at the company. Also, Microsoft names four new EVPs. And Avanade taps a new CEO. Read More

A tale of two Seattles in the age of AI: Harsh realities and new hope for the tech community

Seattle’s AI community gathered this week to celebrate progress and potential — just as Amazon’s layoffs underscored the economic realities of the new era. Can the region once again turn disruption into innovation? Read More

Microsoft Teams dispute resolved, five years after Slack complaint

A commitment by Microsoft to offer stripped-down versions of its productivity suites without the Teams communication service has been accepted by the European Commission — resolving a high-profile antitrust case against the Redmond company. Read More

Salesforce lays off 93 employees in Washington state as Benioff touts AI-driven efficiencies

Salesforce is laying off 93 workers in Washington, according to a notification filed Wednesday with the state’s Employment Security Department. … Read More

Tableau’s new AI agents aim to bridge a data confidence gap

A new Salesforce survey released today reveals that most U.S. business leaders feel increased pressure to back their arguments with… Read More

Microsoft unveils AI agents for sales, striking back at Salesforce

Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both… Read More

Microsoft’s free 365 Copilot Chat will let business users access AI agents in bid to expand adoption

Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI service for businesses, with a free chat experience… Read More

Podcast

Podcast: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on AI, Microsoft, Seattle tech, and the future of humanity

Our guest this week on the GeekWire Podcast is Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who says he has never been as… Read More

Why the former Tableau CEO just joined the board of a Zurich-based AI data analytics startup

Seattle-based technology investor and business leader Mark Nelson, the former Tableau CEO, has joined the board of Veezoo, a company… Read More

Salesforce integrates Tableau’s AI-powered ‘Pulse’ feature into its flagship CRM platform

Salesforce will expand one of Tableau’s key AI features to its core customer relationship management platform, in one of its… Read More

Tableau releases Einstein Copilot beta as part of Salesforce’s broader AI rollout

Tableau is releasing a new artificial intelligence tool that aims to make its advanced data analysis and visualization features more… Read More

An inside look at Tableau: What’s the future of the ‘DataFam’ at Salesforce?

Walking into the “Data1” building in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, it’s not easy to tell it’s the home of Tableau, with… Read More

Salesforce stops reporting individual revenue figures for Slack and Tableau

Salesforce said it would no longer divulge the individual revenue numbers of acquired companies including Slack and Tableau in its… Read More

Salesforce puts Tableau headquarters building in Seattle up for sublease

Salesforce confirmed Friday that it will list Tableau Software’s headquarters building in Seattle on the sublease market. Tableau, acquired by… Read More

Tableau’s new CEO on the company’s expansion into AI and its future under Salesforce

Tableau plans to add generative artificial intelligence to its data visualization platform, using AI to automatically identify and describe key… Read More

Longtime Salesforce exec Ryan Aytay named CEO of Tableau Software

Tableau Software has a new leader, as Salesforce veteran Ryan Aytay was named CEO of Tableau on Tuesday. Aytay was… Read More

Salesforce aims to shed more than 200K square feet of Tableau office space in Seattle area

Salesforce is putting more than 200,000 square feet of Tableau Software office space in the Seattle region up for sublease.… Read More

Salesforce stock spikes 14% after beating Q4 estimates; Tableau revenue grows 6% to $636M

Salesforce stock was up more than 14% in after-hours trading Wednesday as the company beat expectations for its fiscal fourth… Read More

‘Tableau has been killed by Salesforce’: Past and current Tableau employees gather at ‘Irish wake’

On an otherwise run-of-the-mill weeknight at Fremont Brewing near Lake Union in Seattle, the line for beer stretched past the… Read More

Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down

Mark Nelson is stepping down as CEO of Tableau Software, less than two years after he took the helm of… Read More

Tableau adds data storytelling and AI predictions as its annual revenue nears $2B under Salesforce

Tableau Software showed a new storytelling feature that automatically explains data from Tableau dashboards in plain language, building on the… Read More

Super Bowl ad roundup: Big stars push a range of tech, from travel to phones to electric vehicles

The focus of a lot of the Super Bowl LVI ads released ahead of Sunday’s games seems to be the… Read More

Data storytelling company Narrative Science will join Tableau via Salesforce acquisition

Narrative Science, the Chicago-based company behind the Lexio data storytelling software, will join Seattle-based data visualization company Tableau Software under… Read More

Seattle spam-call blockers Hiya add Salesforce President and CMO Sarah Franklin to board

Hiya, the Seattle startup whose tech helps block unwanted spam and fraud calls, has added Salesforce President and CMO Sarah… Read More

Podcast

Tableau’s new CEO Mark Nelson on life inside Salesforce, and the company’s future in Seattle

Seattle-based Tableau Software is no longer an independent publicly traded company, but it’s back under the watchful eyes of Wall… Read More

Salesforce discloses Tableau results for first time since $15.7B deal, offering new Slack clues

Seattle-based Tableau Software generated $394 million in revenue for Salesforce in its first fiscal quarter, up 38% from a year… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Salesforce strikes a deal to acquire Slack for $27.7 billion; Amazon Web Services makes some… Read More

Slack deal would pit Salesforce against Microsoft, with Tableau acquisition as a potential blueprint

Slack could gain new inroads to enterprise customers, and access to additional sales and marketing horsepower, if reports of its… Read More

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