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.

Salesforce on Tuesday will launch Wave, its analytics cloud, in a move that broadens its platform for other business use cases and applications designed to make data fun and intuitive for the masses.

The data analytics race has just taken a very interesting turn with the news that Salesforce is buying Tableau in an all-stock deal worth around $15.7 billion. The deal, which is expected to close by ...