Salesforce Acquires BeyondCore to Plug Analytics Gaps, Boost AI

If you're a smart technology provider, you give your customers a vast selection of tools to get their jobs done. Forward-thinking vendors do this through partnerships and integrations with best-in-class providers -- and, often, through acquisition of best-in-class providers themselves. As a case in point, consider Salesforce's acquisition of San Mateo, Calif.-based analytics provider BeyondCore this week, which Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff confirmed via a tweet. The terms of the sale were not disclosed. Several forces have come together to radically impact the power of analytics in the enterprise, namely big data and consumerized IT.