What is Tableau Next?

What is Tableau Next?

Tableau Next is an agentic analytics platform that transforms agile, self-service analytics in a modular way—with reusable and extensible components, semantic AI, and consistent data built into every workflow for every user, department, and industry. This gives your enterprise the ability to drive personalized and contextual analytics experiences and to take action on data within Salesforce and third-party applications in an intuitive way.

Tableau Next is built on Salesforce's Agentforce 360 Platform, which means any team can use analytical insights to make strategic decisions more quickly and effectively. And Salesforce’s continued commitment to trust and privacy provides the most secure and compliant foundation for Tableau yet.

Tableau Next offers a revolutionary way to future-proof your data investments with agentic AI—its models, architecture, and workflows evolve with your business. 

AI agents bring actionable insights where you work

In many companies, crucial insights are often overlooked or ignored simply because they aren't surfaced in a way that aligns with how people operate on a day-to-day basis. Some just want answers delivered to them in the context of their work.

Tableau Next is equipped with out-of-the-box metrics and predictive and generative AI capabilities to forecast future trends and help people take actionable steps based on those predictions. By pushing contextual, AI-powered insights directly to people in the flow of work, we’re making it easier for everyone in the organization to act on valuable information without needing to search for it.

The AI analytics capabilities of Tableau Agent and Tableau Pulse come together within a single experience in Tableau Next to promote intelligent insights across all workflows. Whether you are an analyst, business user, or architect, data-driven work will become more efficient. 

Tableau Semantics enrich analytics data for trusted insights

It’s difficult to ensure that insights are based on a complete and accurate view of information. This not only creates doubt, but also makes it challenging to turn data into real business value. Building trust in data requires investments in technologies and processes that validate and verify data sources, making it easier for users to trust and act on the insights provided.

Tableau Next provides an integrated metadata framework to make your data, AI, and customizations work seamlessly across every app. Tableau Semantics enriches analytics data with business context and meaning, improves discovery and comprehension of relevant data, and creates a flexible and governed place for users to create and manage metrics, dimensions, relationships, and goals across teams.

You’ll always see your data’s lineage with a clear and transparent view of where data comes from and how it’s processed. Plus, consistent business language applied to every data model helps everyone to understand the data’s context and make decisions with confidence. 

See our webinar on Tableau Semantics to learn more.

The new Workspace in Tableau Next combines connectivity, data prep, semantic models, visualizations, and more in the flow of analysis.

Real-time data is secure and ready to scale

Data today is scattered across numerous platforms and applications, both on-premises and in the cloud. It’s expensive to host, move, replicate, and maintain as a source of truth. Even if you can access all your data sources, bringing them together in a coherent and meaningful way is a monumental task.

Tableau Next is built on the Agentforce 360 Platform and powered by Data 360, which integrates and unifies all of your customer data. The Zero Copy Partner Network allows you to connect to data sources without moving or duplicating your data, making it easier and more cost-effective to gain insights without the associated complexities of traditional data management.

Where Data Cloud unlocks data trapped in your organization, Tableau Next gives it business context and allows you to scale at every touchpoint to create experiences that are connected and consistent. With deep third-party integrations through MuleSoft, you can surface powerful insights and take action with custom-built workflows.

Reusable and composable assets empower efficiency and customization

Whether it’s a carefully crafted dashboard or a complex data model, too often, these valuable assets are locked away, unable to be easily shared or reused across teams or projects. An open, API-driven platform with discoverable and reusable analytic assets offers organizations the flexibility and customization they need to support their business needs.

As a composable platform, Tableau Next allows teams to build analytical agents to use for any enterprise use case, extensible into other third-party applications. We're also launching a new marketplace. In addition to the external sharing our Tableau Community knows well, this will also support internal use cases so reusable components can be shared, discovered, and leveraged by anyone in your organization and beyond.

Learn more about Tableau Next

Excited to get your hands on Tableau Next? It's available in the Tableau+ Bundle, and as a standalone offer. With simplified per-user, per-month pricing, it's easier to adopt Tableau Next at scale—without concerns about consumption costs. Now, analytical queries, data transforms, and AI usage are unmetered. Contact your account team to learn more.

Want to see more? Join us for Tableau Conference May 5–7 in San Diego and on Salesforce+.