Zendesk Acquires Business Intelligence Startup BIME Analytics For $45 Million

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Customer support giant Zendesk is acquiring French startup BIME Analytics for $45 million in cash. BIME Analytics is a business intelligence startup with a software-as-a-service approach. It turns data from many different sources into trends and insights. Created six years ago, the startup raised $3.4 million from Alven Capital and business angels. The company's SaaS model makes it stand out the competition and its custom-made solutions from big software vendors. Others have been following the same model since then. It provides dozens of data connectors in order to aggregate data from multiple sources -- Bigquery, CSV, Excel, Intercom, Google Analytics, Salesforce and more. You can name a data point for business intelligence purposes, and chances are BIME already supports it. Then you can create interactive dashboards, advanced visualizations or exploit the results using SQL queries. Everything is fast and distributed, you won't have to manage servers to do these data ...