I talked to a lot of people and I feel like there's been a number of waves of analytics. So said Ryan Atay, CEO of Tableau, last week prior to the data analytics firm’s annual gathering in San Diego.

Wave Analytics Cloud will make it easy to explore any data source, uncover new insights and take action instantly from any device. Rather than delivering a visualization tool or yet another layer of ...

About eight months after unveiling its Wave Analytics Cloud, Salesforce.com on Thursday brought to market the first app in an upcoming portfolio built on the data-crunching and visualization platform.