Just four months after Salesforce.com closed its acquisition of Slack, another of its subsidiaries, data visualization platform Tableau Software, is retooling to make Slack its new user interface.
For the last few years, Tableau has been building up a conversational interface it calls Ask Data that enables users to drill down into large datasets using natural language. Now, it’s allowing users to ask questions of their data—and share the answers—via Slack.
At its online-only Tableau Conference ’21 this week, the company is showing these and other new features that it hopes will further democratize the use of data.
Democratize but govern
Slack integration wasn’t even on Tableau’s roadmap this time last year, and for good reason: details of Salesforce’s plan to buy Slack only leaked in late November 2020. Since the deal closed in July 2021, though, Salesforce has been integrating Slack with everything.
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