Tableau Wants to Kill Dashboards With AI Agents [Video]

Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2024 was about Agentforce, its low-code platform that allows customers to build an AI agent within minutes. Tableau, the data visualisation company acquired by Salesforce in 2019, also announced Tableau Einstein, which is powered by Agentforce.

Tableau Einstein integrates with Salesforce’s platform and other existing Tableau functionalities.  With Einstein, the company aims to shift analytics away from traditional reports and dashboards– something business intelligence and analytics tools have been known for historically—to deliver insights seamlessly within the user’s workflow.

Speaking with AIM at the sidelines of Dreamforce, Ryan Aytay, CEO at Tableau, said generative AI, at this point in time, could do, at least in analytics, what a novice analyst could do.

“As the technology gets better, faster, we can leverage some of these new models that are coming out. It can become more autonomous,” he said.

With AI agents coming into the picture, customers will be able to receive insights …