Salesforce subsidiary Tableau seeks to fuel data-driven insights for its customers by adding personalization and automation to its business intelligence software. Credit: iStock Tableau, a subsidiary of Salesforce, has launched new AI-powered capabilities to help make data more accessible to business users and improve support for data-driven decisions and analysis. The announcement comes a week after Salesforce revealed plans to add new generative AI functions to its CRM platform at its Trailblazer DX ’23 developer conference. Eight out of 10 business leaders agree that data is critical for decision-making, however, many still struggle with how to use it, according to a recent Salesforce survey of 10,000 business leaders. Furthermore, 41% of the business leaders polled said that they did not understand their data because it is too complex or not accessible enough. In order to help business leaders unlock important data insights, Tableau has added new AI-powered personalization and automation capabilities to its business intelligence software. The new features include data stories for Tableau Server, which allows customers to use AI to translate graphs, charts and spreadsheets into natural language insights that are easy to interpret and share. In addition, new user-attribute functions personalize analytics by displaying only the most relevant insights and enforcing security policies based on attributes such as role, department, and location. A new data mapping tool allows users to take ready-to-use dashboards and reconfigure them to match any data source without the use of third-party applications. Tableau has also announced an enhanced integration with Slack designed to allow users to share Tableau content in Slack and easily search for and share information and visualization previews in direct messages and channels. For example, sales managers will be able to view their team’s fourth quarter sales numbers in Tableau and share data visualizations directly within their team’s Slack channels. At the start of March, Tableau, a data visualization company that was acquired by Salesforce in 2019 for $15.7 billion, was credited by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for being part of the driving force behind its parent company’s 14% year-over-year jump in revenue in its fourth quarter of 2023. Related content news analysis Apple earnings: About that iPhone 'slump' in China Based on information from Thursday's earnings report, it seems that data pointing to an iPhone slump in China were over-baked. By Jonny Evans May 03, 2024 9 mins iMac iPhone Apple news Microsoft begins to phase out ‘classic’ Teams Microsoft is encouraging Teams customers to move to the new, faster version of the collaboration app; the older version will be switched off next year. By Matthew Finnegan May 03, 2024 3 mins Microsoft Teams Collaboration Software Productivity Software news analysis Apple confirms it will open up the iPad in Europe this fall The latest efforts to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act mean developers can offer to side load apps to both iPhones and iPads in the EU. Apple has also taken steps to improve what it offers to smaller and non-commercial developers in the By Jonny Evans May 02, 2024 6 mins iPad Apple Mobile Apps news Udacity offers laid-off US workers free access to its courses for 30 days Sign-ups will be available over the next 30 days By Lucas Mearian May 02, 2024 4 mins Technology Industry IT Jobs IT Skills Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe