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> I'll say that nearly all their acquired products I've worked with kinda suck and barely integrate in any meaningful way (I'm thinking Tableau and Marketing Cl
by sleazebreeze 3y ago
> I'll say that nearly all their acquired products I've worked with kinda suck and barely integrate in any meaningful way (I'm thinking Tableau and Marketing Cloud especially).
I worked for Tableau before the acquisition and left a year or two after. It was pretty clear to insiders that there was never a good path to a smooth integration of Tableau into the SF platform. The teams have wasted years on that and are still struggling.
There is a massive amount of actual tech debt on the Tableau monolith side that just can't be overcome without huge investment. Tableau spent years trying to fix that and couldn't make a dent, SF brought an even more short-sighted planning process in and only made it worse.
Granted that Tableau could never fully commit to the efforts and the highest level of executives were only interested in making Tableau an attractive acquisition target. Exception being Francois, who still seems to care about Tableau the product.