Enterprise users have many capabilities with business intelligence and data analytics tools like Tableau. Sometimes the biggest challenge lies not in having more features but in not knowing how best to implement them.
Salesforce is seeking to address that challenge with the launch of Einstein Copilot for Tableau, entering beta today. This new AI tool for Tableau expands upon Salesforce’s portfolio efforts with Einstein Copilot which offers generative AI capabilities across applications like Salesforce CRM. Last month Einstein Copilot became available as public beta to give CRM users a conversational assistant to aid with workflows.
Einstein Copilot for Tableau is tailored specifically towards data analysis, not simply natural language queries. The new copilot offers several capabilities that help business users and data analysts alike move beyond “blank page” situations where they don’t know what steps to take next or how to perform certain operations. There are recommended questions available that prompt users about what questions can be asked of specific data sets while there is also a conversational data exploration capability for digging deeper into results.
At its core, Business User Acceleration Tool focuses on equipping business users with a tool to accelerate data insights without first needing to become engineers themselves.
“We don’t want to tell users they need to write better prompts,” Southard Jones, chief product officer for Tableau told VentureBeat. Instead, “we spent a great deal of energy and time making sure when an analyst asks questions in traditional pill and shelves mode, they receive responses back quickly or are directed toward highly specific answers.”
Pills in Tableau are data types pulled into an analysis workflow by users while shelves refer to columns and rows being evaluated for analysis.
Einstein Copilot Extends Tableau Pulse
Integrating artificial intelligence-powered tooling into Tableau is nothing new.
Tableau announced their AI-driven Pulse tool in February this year, providing users with data insights and visualizing data visualizations. Prior to that release, Tableau had multiple iterations of tools which enabled various levels of natural language queries as well as AI-powered insights.
Einstein Copilot for Tableau stands out by acting as an actual assistant, helping users with data analysis and exploration operations.
