Tableau gets AI shot in the arm with Empirical Systems acquisition
Summary
When Tableau was founded back in 2003, not many people were thinking about artificial intelligence to drive analytics and visualization, but over the years the world has changed and the company recognized that it needed talent to keep up with new trends.The startup was born just two years ago from research on automated statistics at the MIT Probabilistic Computing Project .What’s more, it will be bringing the engineering team on board for some AI knowledge, while taking advantage of this underlying advanced technology.Francois Ajenstat, Tableau’s chief product officer says this ability to automate findings could put analytics and trend analysis into the hands of more people inside a business.Richard Tibbetts, Empirical Systems CEO, says the two companies share this vision of democratizing data analysis.