‘So much of Tableau’s success is thanks to our partners’ investment in our customers,’ says Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay.

Salesforce plans to roll out a Tableau Einstein Alliance partner community in February with the goal of furthering artificial intelligence and AI agent creation and delivery through access to experts, marketing materials and product road map information.

Tableau Einstein, a reworked version of the data analytics platform the San Francisco-based CRM vendor bought in 2019, already includes 25 initial members in the community, with CRN 2024 Solution Provider 500 membersCapgemini, IBM Consulting and Slalom Consulting among the ranks.

“So much of Tableau’s success is thanks to our partners’ investment in our customers,” Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay said in a statement Thursday. “Now, we’re investing in the Tableau Einstein Alliance to grow an ecosystem of visionary and innovative partners that will help our customers integrate Agentforce into every aspect of analytics. The future of data and analytics is now, and our partners are a critical part of the journey.”

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CRN has reached out to Salesforce for comment.

Tableau Einstein was unveiled in September, with some of its services already available through the Tableau+ premium offer and plans to make Tableau Einstein a stand-alone product as well as an integrated part of existing Salesforce offerings, according to the vendor. Salesforce has about 12,000 partners worldwide.

Products and services made by alliance members will become generally available (GA) on Salesforce AppExchange and an upcoming Tableau Marketplace.

The new community appears to align with Salesforce executives’ stated goal of more investment in partners while also taking steps to meet co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff’s planfor 1 billion customers worldwide interacting with AI agents by Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual conference.

Benioff has touted the agent model of AI assistants as an improvement on the copilot AI assistant model preached by rival vendors, most notably Microsoft.