Sitting on Tableau Softwares balance sheet at the end of the first quarter was $715.7 million in cash and equivalents. What to do with it？ The company will almost certainly use part of it to make acquisitions， Chief Financial Officer Tom Walker said. But what kind of deals？ The complementary kind， Walker said. Something that adds to the companys offerings in terms of products or enhancements to Seattle-based Tableaus existing lineup of data visualization software， he said. Tableau isnt interested in a deal that might be outside its expertise and comfort zone.

2015年一季度末，Tableau軟件公司坐擁現(xiàn)金及現(xiàn)金等價(jià)物7.157億美元，被問到如何支配這部分資金時(shí)， CFO Tom Walker回答說，幾乎肯定的是公司會(huì)將一部分用于收購(gòu)。至于是哪種類型的收購(gòu)，Walker說是互補(bǔ)類型的收購(gòu)，“希望通過收購(gòu)增強(qiáng)公司的產(chǎn)品供給能力或增強(qiáng)現(xiàn)有的數(shù)據(jù)可視化軟件。Tableau對(duì)專業(yè)之外的或舒適區(qū)之外的交易不感興趣?！?