What is Tableau Next?
Tableau Next is Salesforce’s next-generation analytics platform that merges Tableau’s industry-leading visual analytics with powerful AI from Agentforce. Built on a flexible, API-first Salesforce architecture, Tableau Next delivers personalized, contextual, and actionable insights directly in the flow of work. It unifies connectivity, data prep, semantic modeling, visualizations, and AI agents in a single modern workspace designed for both creators and consumers.
The Agents That Power Tableau Next
Built-In AI Capabilities with Agentforce.
Data Pro: Build & Model with Intelligence
Automates prep, modeling, and visualization
Works inside the Tableau Semantic Layer
Helps developers define metadata powering analytics
Inspector: Always-On Insight Engine
Monitors data in real time
Detects anomalies & surfaces insights
Acts like an enhanced and intelligent alerting layer
Concierge: Ask Questions in Plain Language
Natural-language Q&A
Suggests root causes and next-best actions
Designed for business users and data consumers
Tableau Next vs. CRMA vs. Tableau Cloud/Server
Tableau Next
Tableau Next is the new analytics platform from Salesforce that brings data preparation, modeling, visualization, and artificial intelligence into one modern workspace. It uses three intelligent agents to support automated insights, natural language questions, and real time monitoring. It also connects directly with Data Cloud and the Tableau semantic layer, making it a strong choice for organizations moving toward advanced analytics.
Key Points
Artificial intelligence driven insights and natural language analysis
Unified semantic layer and direct Data Cloud connection
Flexible architecture that is easy to embed and scale
Tableau Cloud & Server
Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server offer powerful dashboard creation and visual analysis in an independent environment hosted by Tableau or on site. They remain strong business intelligence tools but do not include Data Cloud connection or the semantic layer that power Tableau Next. They perform extremely well for classic dashboard experiences.
Key Points
Industry leading dashboard performance
Supports Tableau Plus question and answer and advanced metrics
Does not include Data Cloud connection or shared semantic layer
CRM Analytics (CRMA)
CRM Analytics is the advanced analytics tool that lives inside Salesforce and supports deep analysis for sales, service, and marketing teams. It uses SAQL for complex visualizations and is very effective when insights need to be pushed into Salesforce actions. It does not include the artificial intelligence agents or the shared semantic layer that come with Tableau Next.
Key Points
Strong for workflows inside Salesforce
Uses SAQL for advanced visualizations
Great for predictive analysis, but without the intelligent agents in Next
How Tableau Next Works
Bring together data in Salesforce Data Cloud and turn it into meaningful insights with Tableau Next. Data from warehouses, files, and operational systems flows in through zero-copy sharing, MuleSoft, and Tableau Prep, then is standardized inside Data Cloud using Data Lake Objects and Data Model Objects. Tableau Semantics enriches that unified data that creates reusable metadata, data marts, and machine-learning-ready assets. Tableau Cloud, Tableau Server, Tableau Pulse, and Tableau Next then transform these modeled datasets into interactive analytics and automated actions directly inside Salesforce.
