Salesforce buys analytics firm BeyondCore, adding new artificial intelligence capabilities

Pursuing its stated goal to make software smarter, Salesforce has made yet another acquisition, this time agreeing to buy BeyondCore, a San Mateo, Calif.-based data-analytics company. BeyondCore disclosed the sale in a blog post and Salesforce founder the CEO Marc Benioff confirmed it in a tweet, saying that BeyondCore will "enhance the AI capabilities of Analytics Cloud." Terms weren't disclosed, but BeyondCore has raised 9 million since its founding in 2004, according to CrunchBase. BeyondCore was already integrated into Salesforce as part of its upcoming version 7 release, BeyondCore said its post. The acquisition is Saleforce's seventh this year, marking a major increase in velocity -- it bought only 13 other companies between 2012 and 2015, per CrunchBase.