According to a recent press release, “Tableau Software, the leading analytics platform, today announced a roadmap of product innovations in front of more than 17,000 customers and partners at its annual conference in New Orleans. Tableau introduced Ask Data, which leverages natural language processing to enable people to ask questions in an intuitive, conversational manner that makes it easier for far more people to engage with data and produce analytical insights. The company also announced plans to expand its platform capabilities with a new add-on product, Tableau Prep Conductor, which enables organizations to schedule and manage self-service data preparation at scale. These features, as well as a host of other exciting product innovations aimed at making analytics more accessible and more powerful, are included within the Tableau 2019.1 beta, available today.”

Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer at Tableau, commented, “Our customers want to enable more people than ever to use analytics within their organizations, and they are looking for more intuitive and natural ways to interact with data… Ask Data, our new integrated natural language capability, lowers the barrier to entry for analytics so people can ask questions in plain language and get insights faster. And with the growing volume and complexity of data, customers want to ensure that their data is always up to date and can be trusted for decision making. So, with Tableau Prep Conductor and our new data modeling capabilities, Tableau makes managing data easier than ever.”

Read more at PR Newswire.

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