Tableau is the world's most widely used business intelligence and data visualisation platform — used by over 1 million people at organisations including Verizon, Charles Schwab and Netflix. It connects to virtually any data source — databases, cloud services, spreadsheets and data warehouses — and provides a drag-and-drop interface for creating interactive dashboards and visualisations that make complex data accessible to everyone in an organisation.
Tableau AI, powered by Salesforce's Einstein AI, adds natural language querying (Ask Data), automated insight discovery (Explain Data) and predictive analytics to the platform. Ask Data lets users type questions about their data in plain English and receive instant visualisations — making dashboards self-service for non-technical stakeholders who previously needed a data analyst to run queries. Explain Data automatically identifies statistical drivers behind data points, helping analysts understand why metrics are moving.
Tableau's strength lies in its ability to handle genuinely complex data at scale — connecting to multiple data sources simultaneously, performing sophisticated calculations and presenting the results in highly customisable, interactive dashboards that update in real time. For enterprise BI use cases involving millions of rows of data across multiple systems, Tableau's performance and scalability are unmatched in the visualisation category.