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Dreamforce reaction

Tableau is now part of the Salesforce family, so I sat down to react honestly to the Dreamforce keynote and separate the genuine innovation from the marketing.

  • Tableau AI is largely a rebrand of what was Einstein Analytics, so a lot of "new" Dreamforce content is repackaging existing Salesforce capabilities under the Tableau name.
  • Salesforce's new dashboard starters tie back to its acquisition of Swiss Tableau partner Lin Tao, which built industry dashboard templates.
  • Several keynote demos showed forward-looking, not-yet-shipped features (Ask Data and Einstein Discovery in Slack are slated for spring 2022 or later), so the "live" workflows aren't always available today.
  • The conversational Ask Data response inside Slack is genuinely new and impressive, even if it likely depends on data being prepared a specific way via Einstein.
  • Customer stories like Kellogg's tend to sell outcomes and talking points without explaining the actual "how" behind the analytics.

In this video, watch and share my reaction to Tableau’s Dream force presentation titled “Tableau: Unleash the Power of Your Data”. As Tableau starts to integrate itself into the Salesforce community and world, expect to see more content about Salesforce don’t he channel and I thought this would be a great way to kick of that journey by seeing how Tableau presents itself to a Salesforce audience. ‍ 0:00 Intro 00:57 Salesforce + & Dreamforce 06:39 Mark pitches 3 core elements 16:41 Francois on Data culture 23:03 Tableau acquisition of Lintao SA 25:36 Rob Birse from Kellogs with a use case 34:20 Avni Wadhwa speaks on leveraging AI 36:33 Phil Cooper walks through a demo 38:48 Einstein, Tableau extension gallery & Slack  with Ask Data and Explain data 46:51 Ask Data in Einstein & Business Science demo 50:09 Aleene Webber on Slack-first analytics 53:40 Lav Mic pro tips 54:54 David walks through Sales use case with Einstein discovery & Slack 01:01:36 Aleene Webber on the Tableau community 01:03:59 Mark Nelson’s closing remarks 01:05:20 The Tableau Blueprint