Discover Tableau Accelerators on AppExchange

Learning Objectives

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

Describe what a Tableau Accelerator is.
List some advantages of using Tableau Accelerators.
Search for best-fit Tableau Accelerators on AppExchange.
Identify resources to learn more about building Tableau Accelerators.

With your company's combined Salesforce and Tableau customized implementation, whatever your role, you can keep tabs on how your staff manages their customer relationships. But there's more you can do to access the full power of Tableau!

What Is Tableau?

Tableau is the leading visual analytics platform that transforms how you use data to solve your business questions and problems. Tableau empowers you, your staff, and your company to see and understand your data. From dashboards to action-oriented implementations with Tableau Pulse and Tableau AI, Tableau makes acting upon your data easy.

How Can I Extend Tableau?

Extend the power of Tableau by adding features to customize your experience.

Dashboard Extensions: Add unique functionality to your dashboards through web applications developed by third-party developers.
Connectors: Connect your Tableau dashboards to additional data sources with connectors.
Accelerators: Install pre-built dashboards to get a headstart on data visualization.

And there’s more great news: Tableau Accelerators that enhance your Salesforce experience are now available for you to browse and install from AppExchange.

What Are Tableau Accelerators on AppExchange?

Tableau Accelerators are pre-built dashboards and workbooks that include sample data that you can swap out for your own data. Tableau Accelerators allow you to discover insights with minimal setup. They’re available for different industries, like healthcare and financial services, and a variety of business functions, like sales, marketing, and finance. Tableau Accelerators are also available to connect your Tableau deployment to other enterprise applications and to Salesforce. Tableau Accelerators are created by Tableau or Tableau managed service partners.

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Many Tableau Accelerators use the same data models, which means they’re easy to adopt. It also means that you may start with a basic Accelerator, and switch to a progressively more complex one with ease. All Tableau Accelerators that connect directly to Salesforce cloud data sources, including Data Cloud, use standard data objects.

Tableau Accelerator Use Cases

Now that you’re aware of what Tableau Accelerators are, learn about why you should use Tableau Accelerators.

Install Tableau Accelerators to help with a wide variety of use cases. Here are a few examples.

Sales: Jorge, a sales leader, wants to understand what the sales pipeline looks like, where the deals are, and which customers are most profitable. Jorge connects a pipeline solution like the Sales Pipeline Accelerator directly to his Sales Cloud data to visualize his company data within minutes.

Call Center: Pooja, a business lead at a mid-size company, moves customer experience operations on-shore and enables analytics in Tableau to meet new benchmarks. They use a call center Accelerator to discover best practices for agent analytics. As they apply analytics to more aspects of their business, they use a Service Cloud Accelerator to provide governed analytics across their organization.

Nonprofit: Betty, a fundraiser at a local nonprofit, wants to focus her fundraising efforts on a more specific group of donors. She connects the Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Donations Accelerator with her Nonprofit Cloud instance. Within minutes, she sees who her most loyal and profitable donors are, and which campaigns are most productive.

Find Tableau Accelerators on AppExchange

So you’re convinced that a Tableau Accelerator can benefit your business. But where can you find that best-fit Tableau Accelerator?

Tableau Accelerators are available:

On AppExchange, the marketplace for all things Salesforce
On the Tableau Exchange and in Tableau Desktop
In the Tableau Accelerators Gallery on Tableau Cloud, the place for all cloud-native Tableau Accelerators

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Start with our Tableau Accelerators product collection on AppExchange.

In the collection, Tableau Accelerators are organized into groups that showcase best-in-class use cases for technological integrations, analytics design and usage, user experience design, and data strategies. Some examples include:

Direct Connect to Salesforce
Success with Tableau Cloud
Know Your Business: Tableau Accelerators for Sales, Finance, and HR

Click an Accelerator’s listing to learn more, and read reviews to see what other customers have to say.

Want to Build Your Own Tableau Accelerator?

There are many great Tableau Accelerators on AppExchange. And maybe diving into those Tableau Accelerators has inspired you to create your own. Awesome!

To build Tableau Accelerators, you need to be a Services Partner that is managed. To learn more, start with Tableau Accelerators. Hungry for even more info on building your own Tableau Accelerators? Check out the resources at the end of this unit.

In this Quick Look, you learned about Tableau Accelerators and how to find them on AppExchange. You even discovered some resources to help you build your own and host them on AppExchange.

Next, continue your learning journey by completing the Meet Your Business Needs with AppExchange trail.

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