After finish with the restructuring of Tableau, Salesforce has already chosen the one who will be its new managerand. According to Bloomberg, it is ryan aytay, who since February 2022 was Tableau’s CRO (Chief Revenue Officer). He has previously held other management positions in the company, in which he has been with for 16 years. In his new role, he will report to Salesforce COO Brian Millham on the company’s progress.
With this step, Salesforce culminates the process initiated after the closing of the purchase of Tableau, for which they paid 15.7 billion dollars, to facilitate the integration of their products and technologies in the different divisions, areas and packages of Salesforce tools.
From now on, Aytay, as Tableau’s new CEO, will have the mission of continuing to offer support and tools to its main users, data visualization professionals. At the same time, he hopes to make progress in making his products more relevant to other professionals and areas, as well as Salesforce customers in general.
Aytay noted that his team has been adding new features to Tableau for some time now, including various systems for working more closely with Slack. He also said that Tableau’s annualized revenue has doubled since it was bought in 2019.
The operation is considered one of the great agreements that have driven Salesforce in its expansion. But now, with some pressure from investors to control costs and increase profitability, Salesforce is more focused on integrating the large companies it has bought in recent years. Among them, in addition to Tableau, are Slack and MuleSoft.
It has recently completed its restructuring, which among other things involved the departure of its CEO until now, Mark Nelson, at the end of last December. He is not the only manager who has left the company, since there are several who have done so over the past year. In addition, the layoffs announced last January by Salesforce have also reached Tableau, something that has also led to the closure of several of its offices.
Tableau is not the only company acquired by Salesforce in recent years that has had changes in its leadership. Slack also has a new CEO since December: Lidiane Joneswho has replaced Stewart Butterfield following his departure.
