INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
Today, it announced it was acquiring Empirical Systems, an early stage startup with AI roots.Tableau did not share the terms of the
deal.The startup was born just two years ago from research on automated statistics at the MIT Probabilistic Computing Project
private Beta when Tableau bought the company
It is delivered currently as an engine embedded inside other applications
That sounds like something that could slip in nicely into the Tableau analytics platform
into the hands of more people inside a business
Empirical Systems CEO, says the two companies share this vision of democratizing data analysis
statement.Instead of moving the team to Seattle where Tableau has its headquarters, it intends to leave the Empirical Systems team in place
and establish an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Empirical was founded in 2016 and has raised $2.5 million.
