Learn about setting up and using Tableau Agent in Tableau Next. Prepare your data in Data Cloud, then enable Agentforce capabilities and create agents using templates with pre-built agentic capabilities that turn data into insights faster.
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Tableau Agent for Tableau Next (formerly known as Agentforce for Analytics) is a collection of pre-built agentic capabilities that enable conversational analytics, deliver proactive insights, and automate data prep and semantic modeling.
Note Starting in July '26, Agentforce for Analytics is Tableau Agent in Tableau Next,
Concierge: Analytics Q&A is conversational analytics, Data Pro is semantic modeling, and
Inspector is proactive insights. As we transition to these new terms, you may see a mix of
the new and old terms in our documentation and products.
- Conversational Analytics
- Business users can ask freeform questions about analytics assets (such as metrics and dashboards) based on a semantic model to get trusted answers from their data in rich text and visualizations.
- Data Preparation and Semantic Modeling
- Analytics and data stewards can conversationally curate and create semantic objects and analytic assets when authoring a semantic model.
- Proactive Insights and Alerts
- Business users can conversationally set up alerts to trigger on the conditions they set on the metrics they care about, and receive proactive and intelligent notifications on them.
Enable Tableau Agent in Tableau Next
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Use Tableau Agent in Tableau Next
Use Tableau Agent in Slack
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Related Data 360 Information
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- Semantic Foundations for Agentforce in Tableau Next
Build a strong foundation for Agentforce for Analytics success with well-structured, well-designed semantic models. - About Conversational Analytics in Tableau Agent
Tableau Agent with the Data Analysis subagent is a deeply integrated, intelligent layer for conversational analytics, built to meet business users where they work, across Tableau Next, Salesforce, and Slack. Ask Tableau Agent freeform questions about your data, and get answers in the form of rich text and visualizations, grounded in your organization's semantics and business logic. - Analyzing Data with Tableau Agent: Analytics Authoring (Beta)
When you analyze data with a Tableau Agent, the agent guides you from questions about your data to insights with greater efficiency. Ask business questions in natural language, and the agent discovers the relevant data, determines what assets are required to answer your questions, and creates them as needed.