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Tableau Pulse

Empower everyone in your organization with intelligent, personalized, and contextual insights delivered in the flow of work. Tableau Pulse helps integrate your CRM and any kind of data into your job to help you make faster decisions. Business intelligence is even smarter with AI-powered insights in Tableau Pulse.

Transform outcomes with the metrics that matter most.

Start your day with Today’s Pulse: a summary of the most relevant insights across all the metrics that are relevant to you.
Powered by AI in Tableau, these natural language summaries provide you with the at-a-glance insights you need to understand what’s happening and why.

Tableau Pulse UI: Today's Pulse insight summary with zoom in on Slack notification from Tableau (generated by AI) with insight summary

See the metrics and insights that matter most to you and your work—curated into a personalized digest. Activate your team to focus on the same shared goals, without having to dig for information across several data sources, to make appropriate and timely decisions.

Tableau Pulse UI: Today's Pulse with highlights for metrics user is following, including branch revenue and device sales

Dig deeper to operationalize analytics with metrics you can easily understand and act on. Click into a relevant metric to clearly see its current value and how it's trending, paired with AI-powered natural language summaries of detected insights.

Device Sales metrics with prompts for drill-down questions: What products drove this sudden increase? How has the trend changed? What are the outliers?
Tableau Pulse UI: Today's Pulse insight summary with zoom in on Slack notification from Tableau (generated by AI) with insight summary
Tableau Pulse UI: Today's Pulse with highlights for metrics user is following, including branch revenue and device sales
Device Sales metrics with prompts for drill-down questions: What products drove this sudden increase? How has the trend changed? What are the outliers?

Get personalized insights directly where you work.

Check your metrics on the go. Access Tableau Pulse on Tableau Mobile and explore personalized data insights to help you understand the trends, outliers, and noteworthy changes to your metrics. With a single click, you can go from your Tableau Pulse metrics digests in Slack and email to the Tableau on Mobile exploration page, where you can dig deeper into the data.

The Tableau Pulse home page on a mobile device. The first half of the Pulse home page has a natural language summary about device sales and inventory fill rate. The second half has a simple data visualization with revenue data.

Right time, right place: Make insights actionable by bringing them into where you’re already working. Whether Slack, email, Tableau dashboard, or embedded into Salesforce products, applications, and web portals, Tableau Pulse delivers relevant insights to meet you where you are.

Tableau Pulse across platforms: Email inbox, Slack channel, and Salesforce CRM

Empower your team to make data-driven decisions by easily sharing and discussing data in context. Personalize your experience by customizing the schedule, channel, and metrics, and then discuss insights and trends with the team.

Device Sales metrics with Manage Followers dialog box and options to add or remove followers

Easily create a single source of truth for all your metrics enriched with real-world business context. Reuse them across multiple channels and dashboards for consistent, trusted insights.

Tableau Pulse UI: Today's Pulse summary with option to Create suggested metrics with Tableau AI (suggested based on data source)
The Tableau Pulse home page on a mobile device. The first half of the Pulse home page has a natural language summary about device sales and inventory fill rate. The second half has a simple data visualization with revenue data.
Tableau Pulse across platforms: Email inbox, Slack channel, and Salesforce CRM
Device Sales metrics with Manage Followers dialog box and options to add or remove followers
Tableau Pulse UI: Today's Pulse summary with option to Create suggested metrics with Tableau AI (suggested based on data source)

Identify and communicate insights with AI.

Automatically detect hidden drivers, trends, contributors, and outliers for metrics you follow to proactively notify you of unusual changes. Quickly and easily keep up with relevant metrics with proactive notifications and visual insight summaries.

Metrics details card for Device Sales: Unit numbers, percent increase, trend line, and performance summary

Go a level deeper to understand what’s happening and why at a glance with AI-generated summaries and visual explanations. With a better understanding of your insights, you can make appropriate, timely decisions.

Metrics details for Device Sales with pop-up for insight takeaway

Understand the “why” behind your insights with follow-up questions—simply type your own or follow guided question suggestions from AI in Tableau. Get digestible answers from Tableau Pulse that pair plain, natural language insights with data visualizations.

Device Sales metrics with search bar question (will we fulfill phone orders?) and suggested metrics to answer question
Metrics details card for Device Sales: Unit numbers, percent increase, trend line, and performance summary
Metrics details for Device Sales with pop-up for insight takeaway
Device Sales metrics with search bar question (will we fulfill phone orders?) and suggested metrics to answer question
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Pulse for Salesforce

Get even more value from Salesforce with AI-powered insights infused into your CRM. Pulse for Salesforce accelerates data-driven decision-making with purpose-built CRM metrics, such as win rate and pipe gen, to understand drivers, uncover trends, and discover opportunities. Go from insight to action with personalized and contextual insights directly in Salesforce. Get started quickly with streamlined provisioning and configuration to deliver insights to everyone.

Libby Hickey

Simply by centralising our data, Tableau Pulse provides us with easy-to-use insights and visualisations that can streamline our business and save us millions.

Libby Hickey
Tableau Pulse Product Manager, John Lewis Partnership

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Tableau Pulse FAQ

Tableau Pulse is a reimagined data experience for people who don’t typically spend their days in dashboards. Pulse provides business users with timely and relevant insights, enabling them to make informed decisions quickly. It sends personalized digests so they have the metrics and insights they need, when they need them.Tableau Pulse auto-generates natural language summaries of relevant trends, forecasts, and outliers in the business, and it helps business users understand the “why” behind a metric by allowing questions in a conversational UI.

Tableau Pulse makes insights available and understandable to everyone in the organization—beyond just analysts and data scientists. It allows organizations to foster a thriving data culture and empower business users to make better decisions with data. Tableau Pulse transforms how people engage with their data, helping everyone integrate data into their everyday work in more meaningful ways. The AI analytics tool significantly helps users who don’t have time to learn new tools, need data at their fingertips to make decisions quickly, and want to go beyond the “how” and “what” of data to understand the “why.”

Instead of requiring people to search for metrics, Tableau Pulse’s ‘push’ delivery model enables business users to follow the metrics that matter to them and receive personalized, contextual, and smart content.

Organizations can use Tableau Pulse to answer their business users' common questions while keeping them in the loop on important changes to relevant metrics, driving better data-driven business decisions. This proactive approach helps drive the adoption of analytics above and beyond what can be accomplished by dashboards alone and increases data’s yield and impact on the business.

Tableau Pulse is generally available now in Tableau Cloud. Tableau Pulse is included out-of-the-box with all Tableau Cloud editions and Embedded Analytics. For customers on Tableau Server, we are committed to helping them manage migrations from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud smoothly and efficiently.

Pulse for Salesforce is an add-on that empowers organizations to get even more value from Salesforce with AI-powered insights infused in their CRM. It accelerates data-driven decision-making with purpose-built sales, service, and key CRM metrics to understand drivers, uncover trends, and discover opportunities. It enables business decision-makers to take action fast with AI-powered, personalized, and contextual insights directly in Salesforce when they need them. Only Pulse for Salesforce can shorten time to value with streamlined provisioning and configuration so you can start delivering insights to everyone.

Tableau Pulse makes it easier for business users to stay on top of their metrics, providing AI-powered insights to make data-driven decisions. If you have Tableau Cloud, you get Tableau Pulse in addition to the default capabilities of Tableau Cloud Platform.

If you want to quickly jumpstart your analytics journey, Pulse for Salesforce is a great entry point for the Tableau Pulse experience with pre-built Pulse metrics just for CRM. It offers a Lightning Web Components (LWC) wizard that automates Salesforce's integration with Tableau, a managed package so administrators can install, update, and manage Tableau Pulse, and out-of-the-box sales metrics. Pulse for Salesforce does not provide the access to create visualizations, dashboards, or the extensive analytics capabilities that comes with Tableau Cloud.

Contact a sales representative for detailed information on how to get started with Pulse for Salesforce.