SEATTLE, June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau, the
world's leading analytics platform (NYSE: CRM), is bringing data
analytics and AI together in a suite of new and expanded augmented
analytics features. Tableau's latest release will empower more
people with the right technology to make smarter and faster
decisions regardless of their role and skill level.
New IDC research1 found that a strong
data culture creates numerous benefits including increased
collaboration, innovation, and measurable value like trust and
accountability, regardless of industry or region. However, gaps
persist between expectations and reality —83 percent of CEOs expect
their organizations to be more data-driven, but only 33 percent of
employees are comfortable using data analytics to support their
decisions.
"Organizations can drive growth and foster innovation by pairing
the right technology investments with a focus on data culture,"
said Chandana Gopal, IDC Research
Director, Future of Intelligence. "Technologies like embedded AI
and augmented analytics are promising tools that can democratize
analytics beyond the traditional BI and advanced analyst user, and
empower all workers to become more data-driven in their
decisions."
Key new augmented analytics functions from Tableau include:
- Ask Data is now available to all roles and users for
Tableau Server and Tableau Online with several significant updates.
Ask Data helps more people, regardless of their role, answer
business questions using natural language. With a new input
experience that guides users on how to ask the most relevant
question and dashboard integration for an integrated, simple and
personalized experience, this release of Ask Data dramatically
broadens the number of people who can successfully ask questions of
data.
- Explain Data is now available to all roles and all users
for Tableau Server and Tableau Online. It helps answer the 'why' in
data by using powerful statistical methods and machine learning to
surface understandable explanations behind data points. Now with a
UI optimized for a wider audience, business users can quickly
understand the drivers behind a specific data point. Explain Data
also reduces the risk of error by searching for explanations in the
entire data source, beyond what is shown in the visualization.
- Ask Data for Salesforce helps Salesforce users ask any
question in Tableau CRM using natural language and semantic search
to get answers instantly in the form of insights, instantly
generated reports, and recommended dashboards, tailored to the
context of their business. Because Ask Data for Salesforce
automatically learns directly from Salesforce data and users,
minimal admin setup time is required, enabling all users to start
using data for decision making.
- Einstein Discovery for Salesforce Reports auto analyzes
data from Salesforce reports quickly and thoroughly to explore and
identify the most important insights, surfacing them with charts
and explanations that are easy to understand. It helps reduce the
barrier to machine learning by enabling direct access to the
associated Einstein Discovery story, where users can analyze
further.
"There's a growing disconnect between business leaders expecting
a data-driven organization, and employees who aren't comfortable
using data to make decisions," said Francois Ajenstat, Chief
Product Officer, Tableau. "Building truly data-first organizations
requires unlocking the power of data for as many people as
possible. AI-powered analytics will help more people use data to
answer questions, make meaningful decisions and, ultimately,
transform their business."
Through augmented analytics, Tableau tackles the data skills gap
by guiding people to uncover insights they wouldn't otherwise see
or discover.
"Ask Data opens up an opportunity to close the gap between
advanced analysts and a broader, general business audience,
allowing anyone to connect and explore data," said Ilya
Kovalenko, Data Analyst & Visualization Team Lead,
Siemens. "By leveraging Tableau's modern and fast natural language
processing technology, our colleagues are reaching insights faster
than ever before. With Explain Data, our team is not only able to
see data trends, but can easily identify and understand what's
driving them."
The newly expanded Ask and Explain Data features are now
available in Tableau 2021.2. Einstein Discovery for Reports is now
available with the Salesforce Summer '21 release. Ask Data for
Salesforce will be available early next year.
Additional new features in Tableau 2021.2 include:
- Collections: Curate content to simplify collaboration and
engagement across the organization. People can easily add content
(workbooks, data sources, etc) from across their site) and create
custom gallery layouts and share them with others.
- Jumpstart Your Salesforce Connection: Helps organizations and
administrators onboard their employees using Salesforce to Tableau
by pre-populating your Tableau Online site with relevant data
sources and workbooks that accelerate exploration of Salesforce
data.
- Connected desktop for web authoring: Enables Creators to
transition seamlessly from web authoring to Tableau Desktop for an
improved authoring workflow.
- Write to Google BigQuery from Tableau Prep: Empowers people to
add or update data in Google BigQuery with clean, prepped
data.
- Containers: Gives customers the ability to run Tableau Server
in a single container, making deployments easier, faster and more
efficient. In 2021.2 Tableau will support Kubernetes and Docker
containers for Linux.
- New Canada Tableau Online Pod: Serves our customers in
Canada with greater stability and
performance.
- Area spatial calculation: Allows analysts to measure the square
area of a selection on a map, amplifying the power of spatial
joins.
- Amazon SageMaker for Tableau: Provides a unique opportunity to
communicate and share machine learning (ML) with anyone, via
self-service analytics. With a few clicks, people can implement ML
models built on SageMaker directly within Tableau dashboards.
To learn more about Tableau's augmented analytics technology,
visit: http://www.tableau.com/augmented.
About Tableau, a Salesforce company
Tableau helps
people see and understand data. As the world's leading analytics
platform, Tableau offers visual analytics with powerful AI, data
management and collaboration. From individuals to organizations of
all sizes, customers around the world love using Tableau's advanced
analytics to fuel impactful, data-driven decisions. For more
information, please visit: www.tableau.com.
About Salesforce
Salesforce, the global CRM leader,
empowers companies of every size and industry to digitally
transform and create a 360° view of their customers. For more
information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit:
www.salesforce.com.
1IDC Thought Leadership White Paper,
sponsored by Tableau, How Data Culture Fuels Business Value in
Data-Driven Organizations, Doc. #US47605621, May 2021
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