Salesforce has announced a new partner community for its Tableau Einstein users.
The Tableau Einstein Alliance will encourage its partners to “drive success in the agent era” by providing them with exclusive benefits to assist in developing and implementing AI solutions and analytics agents.
These benefits include access to product roadmaps and in-house experts, marketing support and promotions, and opportunities for co-selling.
Salesforce has also promised its member partners the ability to “tap” the Alliance to help build agents, apps, solutions, and AI innovations, which the company believes will enable them to maximize the potential of their AI and data investments.
The initial members include Atrium, Capgemini, Deloitte, IBM, and Slalom. The community launch is set for February 2025, and Salesforce has confirmed that any innovations created by the Alliance will be accessible via Salesforce AppExchange and the upcoming Tableau Marketplace.
In discussing the news, Ryan Aytay, CEO of Tableau, opined on the advantages of building the Tableau community:
“So much of Tableau’s success is thanks to our partners’ investment in our customers.
“Now, we’re investing in the Tableau Einstein Alliance to grow an ecosystem of visionary and innovative partners that will help our customers integrate Agentforce into every aspect of analytics.
The future of data and analytics is now, and our partners are a critical part of the journey.
But what exactly is Tableau Einstein?
Tableau Einstein
Announced in September of this year, Tableau Einstein is an AI visual analytics platform designed to help scale and improve data-driven workflows.
Tableau’s platform integrates with various Salesforce tools, including Agentforce and its privacy framework.
The solution enables data experts to build semantic models using real-time customer data, and offers a marketplace for sharing analytical assets within organizations.
Additionally, Tableau’s integrated marketplace and APIs support collaboration, allowing team members to easily work together on data sources, models, visualizations, and dashboards in a unified, drag-and-drop workspace.
Speaking at the time, Aytay provided more insights on the tool:
“By using high-performance AI to bring together data and action with humans, autonomous and assistive agents represent the new paradigm for business efficiency and will future-proof the data and analytics foundation you are already using.
You no longer have to dig across data silos or be a data specialist to get the information to be successful in your role; data and insights are for everyone.
More News from Salesforce
In a similar vein to the Tableau Alliance, at the beginning of September, Salesforce also launched its new Foundations program, which saw the tech titan partnering with several key players in the CCaaS space.
Notable collaborators include Webex by Cisco for chat and video conferencing, and Genesys, Talkdesk, RingCentral, and Aircall for telephony.
The free upgrade offers enhanced features for Sales Cloud and Service Cloud users, helping them maximize their Salesforce investment with tools like opportunity and case management.
It also provides access to free extended trials from over 25 partners through AppExchange, offering integrations for document generation, contract management, and sales tools to boost productivity and reduce costs.
Elsewhere, Salesforce recently confirmed that the company is set to acquire Zoomin, a knowledge unification and data management provider, in a deal reportedly valued at $430 million.
The proposed acquisition follows a collaboration between the two companies earlier this year, which saw them combine their resources to launch Salesforce Unified Knowledge, a tool that integrates third-party data from various sources like file shares and JIRA into Salesforce, enhancing AI performance across its platform.
With this acquisition, Salesforce aims to strengthen its Data Cloud, extending knowledge unification capabilities to support AI beyond Einstein.
This includes Agentforce, its autonomous AI agent platform, enabling more context-aware AI agents that deliver personalized, data-driven actions for customers.