Agentic Analytics: A New Paradigm for Business Intelligence

Welcome to the agentic analytics era

For decades, traditional business intelligence (BI) has largely followed a labor-intensive model where people manually analyze data to generate insights and then take action in separate systems. 

Analysts juggle a variety of tasks from cleaning and preparing data to creating table calculations and building dashboards or conducting deep analysis. While this work can be very rewarding, it can also be time consuming, sometimes taking hours or even days to complete. Meanwhile, executives and business users get frustrated, spending time searching for the right data and insights they need to make decisions. That's where things are about to change. 

Agentic analytics empowers humans to collaborate with AI agents to transform the entire data-to-action workflow. Agents can handle some of the more time-intensive and repetitive tasks and automatically surface initial insights. This frees people up to focus on the parts of their job they truly enjoy, such as strategic thinking, deeper analysis, and creative problem-solving.

And it’s all possible with Tableau Next.

Meet the world's first agentic analytics platform

Tableau Next is built on the Salesforce Platform and deeply integrated with Agentforce, providing enterprise-level performance, security, and scalability while uniquely integrating AI insights and actionability. Any user in an industry can move from data to insight to action in existing workflows, without having to swivel-chair between platforms.

Tableau Next is the first open, API-first BI platform with a workflow engine that spans the entire analytics journey from a data layer, to a semantic layer, a viz layer, and an action layer. Each of these elements is powerful on its own, but when they’re combined, they create something truly revolutionary.

Open data layer

Our foundation is data, and now connecting to and unifying your data is easier than ever. With Data Cloud, you can access data in external platforms—like Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, or AWS Redshift—with zero copy, ensuring speed and security while reducing storage costs. Analysts get powerful data orchestration while the organization benefits from harmonizing any and all data.

AI-powered semantics

Tableau Semantics enables you to build a single source of truth with all of your data, rich with context and meaning. AI assistance helps analysts reduce data preparation time while consistent and trusted insights ensure that every human and agent across your organization speaks the same language of your business. Verified semantic models can be curated, promoted, and made available to users across the organization, while still allowing analysts the freedom and flexibility of ad hoc analyses.

Visualization

Next, you bring data to life with visualization. This encompasses everything that Tableau excels at, now delivered through an API-first experience built to be more performant, scalable, and cost-effective. Analysts can reuse, share, and govern composable assets with a shared marketplace that includes metrics, visualizations, dashboards, and more. Trusted insights—delivered lightning-fast and always up-to-date—empower your organization to make data-driven decisions.

Action layer

Tableau Next brings Salesforce Flow's automation power to your data, making workflows smoother, automating tasks with AI, and saving you money. Now, you can automate those repetitive tasks, boost efficiency, and create reliable business processes, all directly from your charts and summaries.

Agentic analytics skills

Tableau Next introduces a unique agentic analytics experience where people interact with AI agents to accomplish tasks, achieve goals, and answer questions. Agents leverage powerful analytical skills to perform tasks while continuously learning from inputs, feedback, and other agents.

• Data Pro is your intelligent data preparation assistant. Instead of manually cleaning and transforming your data through complex steps (traditionally extract, transform, load), Data Pro provides smart suggestions and even automatically handles some of the complicated changes for you, saving you significant time and effort and improving data quality from the start.
• Concierge provides immediate, reliable answers to your data questions in plain language. For example, Sales teams can simply ask, "What are my best sales opportunities?" and receive clear insights with recommended actions.
• Inspector offers proactive data monitoring and insights by continuously tracking your data for key changes, analyzing trends, and predicting improvements. For instance, Service teams can receive instant alerts about drops in customer satisfaction, enabling them to take immediate action.

Marketplace

Tableau Next also introduces a modern approach to the analytics marketplace, delivering significant value across reuse, cost reduction, governance, data-driven innovation, and self-service.

The marketplace is built on a unique framework that tightly integrates the flow from data to semantic models, to visualizations, and actions. This seamless connection ensures trust and consistency, while a composable architecture enables extensibility, innovation, and scale without sacrificing control.