What is Tableau?
Tableau software is a company based in America.  They offer visualization and dashboarding software that connects to a company's data in their systems of records.  They have a strong presence in the Business Intelligence community as a leader in the visualization space, and they were found in 2003.  Now SalesForce owns Tableau as of 2019 and they paid around 16 billion dollars to acquire Tableau.
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Answer the following query.
What is Tableau?

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Tableau software is a company based in America.  They offer visualization and dashboarding software that connects to a company's data in their systems of records.  They have a strong presence in the Business Intelligence community as a leader in the visualization space, and they were found in 2003.  Now SalesForce owns Tableau as of 2019 and they paid around 16 billion dollars to acquire Tableau.
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