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SEATTLE, June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

-- Features available in latest product releases from Tableau and Salesforce

help more people see and understand data

Tableau, the world's leading analytics platform (NYSE: CRM), is bringing data

analytics and AI together in a suite of new and expanded augmented analytics

features. Tableau's latest release will empower more people with the right

technology to make smarter and faster decisions regardless of their role and

skill level.

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New IDC research(1) (

https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3209914-1&h=1880777698&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tableau.com%2Flearn%2Fwhitepapers%2Fidc-data-culture&a=New+IDC+research

) found that a strong data culture creates numerous benefits including

increased collaboration, innovation, and measurable value like trust and

accountability, regardless of industry or region. However, gaps persist between

expectations and reality -- 83 percent of CEOs expect their organizations to be

more data-driven, but only 33 percent of employees are comfortable using data

analytics to support their decisions.

"Organizations can drive growth and foster innovation by pairing the right

technology investments with a focus on data culture," said Chandana Gopal, IDC

Research Director, Future of Intelligence. "Technologies like embedded AI and

augmented analytics are promising tools that can democratize analytics beyond

the traditional BI and advanced analyst user, and empower all workers to become

more data-driven in their decisions."

Key new augmented analytics functions from Tableau include:

    -- Ask Data is now available to all roles and users for Tableau Server

       and Tableau Online with several significant updates. Ask Data helps

       more people, regardless of their role, answer business questions using

       natural language. With a new input experience that guides users on how

       to ask the most relevant question and dashboard integration for an

       integrated, simple and personalized experience, this release of Ask

       Data dramatically broadens the number of people who can successfully

       ask questions of data.

    -- Explain Data is now available to all roles and all users for Tableau

       Server and Tableau Online. It helps answer the 'why' in data by using

       powerful statistical methods and machine learning to surface

       understandable explanations behind data points. Now with a UI

       optimized for a wider audience, business users can quickly understand

       the drivers behind a specific data point. Explain Data also reduces

       the risk of error by searching for explanations in the entire data

       source, beyond what is shown in the visualization.

    -- Ask Data for Salesforce helps Salesforce users ask any question in

       Tableau CRM using natural language and semantic search to get answers

       instantly in the form of insights, instantly generated reports, and

       recommended dashboards, tailored to the context of their business.

       Because Ask Data for Salesforce automatically learns directly from

       Salesforce data and users, minimal admin setup time is required,

       enabling all users to start using data for decision making.

    -- Einstein Discovery for Salesforce Reports auto analyzes data from

       Salesforce reports quickly and thoroughly to explore and identify the

       most important insights, surfacing them with charts and explanations

       that are easy to understand. It helps reduce the barrier to machine

       learning by enabling direct access to the associated Einstein

       Discovery story, where users can analyze further.

"There's a growing disconnect between business leaders expecting a data-driven

organization, and employees who aren't comfortable using data to make

decisions," said Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer, Tableau. "Building

truly data-first organizations requires unlocking the power of data for as many

people as possible. AI-powered analytics will help more people use data to

answer questions, make meaningful decisions and, ultimately, transform their

business."

Through augmented analytics, Tableau tackles the data skills gap by guiding

people to uncover insights they wouldn't otherwise see or discover.

"Ask Data opens up an opportunity to close the gap between advanced analysts

and a broader, general business audience, allowing anyone to connect and

explore data," said Ilya Kovalenko, ýData Analyst & Visualization Team Lead,

Siemens. "By leveraging Tableau's modern and fast natural language processing

technology, our colleagues are reaching insights faster than ever before. With

Explain Data, our team is not only able to see data trends, but can easily

identify and understand what's driving them."

The newly expanded Ask and Explain Data features are now available in Tableau

2021.2. Einstein Discovery for Reports is now available with the Salesforce

Summer '21 release. Ask Data for Salesforce will be available early next year.

Additional new features in Tableau 2021.2 include:

    -- Collections: Curate content to simplify collaboration and engagement

       across the organization. People can easily add content (workbooks,

       data sources, etc) from across their site) and create custom gallery

       layouts and share them with others.

    -- Jumpstart Your Salesforce Connection: Helps organizations and

       administrators onboard their employees using Salesforce to Tableau by

       pre-populating your Tableau Online site with relevant data sources and

       workbooks that accelerate exploration of Salesforce data.

    -- Connected desktop for web authoring: Enables Creators to transition

       seamlessly from web authoring to Tableau Desktop for an improved

       authoring workflow.

    -- Write to Google BigQuery from Tableau Prep: Empowers people to add or

       update data in Google BigQuery with clean, prepped data.

    -- Containers: Gives customers the ability to run Tableau Server in a

       single container, making deployments easier, faster and more

       efficient. In 2021.2 Tableau will support Kubernetes and Docker

       containers for Linux.

    -- New Canada Tableau Online Pod: Serves our customers in Canada with

       greater stability and performance.

    -- Area spatial calculation: Allows analysts to measure the square area

       of a selection on a map, amplifying the power of spatial joins.

    -- Amazon SageMaker for Tableau: Provides a unique opportunity to

       communicate and share machine learning (ML) with anyone, via self-

       service analytics. With a few clicks, people can implement ML models

       built on SageMaker directly within Tableau dashboards.

To learn more about Tableau's augmented analytics technology, visit:

http://www.tableau.com/augmented.

About Tableau, a Salesforce company

Tableau helps people see and understand data. As the world's leading analytics

platform, Tableau offers visual analytics with powerful AI, data management and

collaboration. From individuals to organizations of all sizes, customers around

the world love using Tableau's advanced analytics to fuel impactful,

data-driven decisions. For more information, please visit: www.tableau.com.

About Salesforce

Salesforce, the global CRM leader, empowers companies of every size and

industry to digitally transform and create a 360° view of their customers. For

more information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit: www.salesforce.com.

(1)IDC Thought Leadership White Paper, sponsored by Tableau, How Data Culture

Fuels Business Value in Data-Driven Organizations, Doc. #US47605621, May 2021

SOURCE:  Tableau

CONTACT: Tom Kim

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         tom.kim@tableau.com