They did mention Prep (9:01) at one point in the presentation, giving a nod to revealing a new Prep Experience at Dreamforce. They also made some mention to the convergence with CRM Analytics, SFs existing integrated Analytic tool, so it seems Tableau Einstein will be the future of Analytics in the SF ecosystem. I'm deeply curious to see the story Salesforce will tell about Analytics at Dreamforce as they're clearly looking to show a vision of the future with how Analytics will integrate to the rest of the Customer360 ecosystem, such as Data Cloud, Einstein 1 and otherwise.
I think they only said they’d show us more at Dreamforce. Also just working through release cycles with only one release to go this year. My gut was that we won’t see anything GA until 25.2
The elephant in the room with all this is, how do you explain the virtues of tableau Einstein to a CFO who believes you should switch to Powerbi as it’s free. 12:04
Interesting. I see this as Salesforce’s response to Microsoft and their whole analytics stack rather than Tableaus response to PowerBi especially the data cloud and the push there to emphasise similarities to the parts of Fabric.
Nobody said anything about server going away. In the video before with Ravi we suggested legacy tableau and tableau Einstein but no details on this just yet. More likely tableau cloud becomes this. There are plenty of use cases that can’t go to cloud for compliance reasons.
@@TableauTim Its certainly not going away but salesforce is not an on-prem solution. There really is no incentive for them to maintain a sub-feature of tableau if the goal is to coalesce the product as salesforce. Its clear with the removal of features from tableau server (metrics) and putting all new cool features into cloud they are heading to that direction. Theres a lot of sunk cost mindset to develop tableau, then pivot to another tool. But salesforce may be shooting themselves in the foot a bit if they aren't paying attention to how this looks.
I always wonder who else would have bought tableau. It found itself in a tough spot and needing the big shield of a Salesforce or AWS. I always hoped AWS would grab tableau or potential a merger between tableau and databricks or tableau and snowflake but that’s all part of a multiverse out there.
