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Tableau is a Salesforce-owned business intelligence platform for data visualization and interactive dashboards, available as desktop and server/cloud products.
A dev.to account puts one weekend of Databricks serverless compute at $14,000 and traces it to a Tableau connection that polled information_schema every eight minutes, restarting a 10-minute auto-stop timer it never let expire.
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The expanded partnership also makes Salesforce capabilities callable from Gemini Enterprise with no connector to build, because both sides implement the open Model Context Protocol. Teams already on Agentforce get that part without new work.
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Salesforce is pushing its business logic and permissions into other companies' interfaces. For the admin rolling this out, the decision is which permission set a skill runs under when it fires from a chat window.
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At Dreamforce 2026 the company said Model Context Protocol will carry its context and actions into both hyperscalers' agent products, while AWS agents move into Slack. The connector work becomes a scoping job.
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Salesforce put Data 360, Informatica, MuleSoft, Tableau, Agentforce and Guardian under one new control plane on Thursday. The loops that run agents inside its own tools still belong to Mastra and the Claude Agent SDK.
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Tableau's higher extension permission tier releases the underlying rows plus the schema names behind them, and the dialog that grants it says nothing about which company's servers the panel's code is running on.
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Benedict Evans argues the hard part of enterprise software was never writing it. If the build step collapses to five minutes while adoption still takes eighteen months, the estate grows faster than anyone can inventory it.
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A 23% one-day move rewarded an EPS figure that doubled while operating income stayed flat, and the arithmetic behind it runs through a $2,613M investment mark-up and 141 million shares retired on borrowed money.
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The close hands an application vendor the catalog, lineage and master data plumbing that agentic AI depends on, which leaves customers whose pipelines terminate outside Salesforce needing a dated roadmap answer from their account team.
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A $25 billion accelerated repurchase, funded with new debt, was the biggest capital decision of the quarter. The guidance arithmetic puts second-half organic growth about where the first quarter left it.
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