Einstein Discovery

We discussed Tableau exchange in the previous section; however, one other similarly beyond-basics feature deserves some attention too. But before we continue, a bit of backstory. In August 2019 Tableau was acquired by Salesforce. Probably most of you know Salesforce and even work with it, but for all other readers, Salesforce is a cloud-native Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. Next to that, the company also developed an analytics portion, which allows Salesforce users to analyze data from a CRM system and other data sources.

Connecting Salesforce to Tableau was possible long before the acquisition, but what’s new in Tableau 2021.1 is that the analytics piece of Salesforce is available for integration into Tableau, as an extension and in calculated fields. The Tableau community is very excited about this feature because of the built-in machine learning capability and real-time prediction power. This piece of software is called Einstein Discovery...