The head of compliance at Danske Bank A/S, Philippe Vollot, also says headcount will probably be scaled back once “technology kicks in.”

Finland's AI strategy of teaching average citizens about the technology could help with the artificial intelligence staffing crunch.

“IBM is investing to build capacity in quantum computing on the continent, and enter additional research opportunities in quantum fields,” Solomon Assefa, IBM’s vice president for Africa and emerging-markets research, said.

Business intelligence “is not Salesforce’s core competency and there is much Tableau does that doesn’t pertain to the CRM world, making the fit slightly imperfect,” analyst Zane Chrane wrote Monday in a note. The acquisition is also an “implicit...

Salesforce wants to become a sprawling supermarket like Microsoft or Oracle Corp. that offers more types of technologies that companies need. The Tableau acquisition — along with Salesforce’s purchase last year of software-integration firm...

The takeover will mark Salesforce’s largest deal to date, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.