“it has MCPs to connect to Snowflake and Tableau and Looker.”
Tableau
By Salesforce
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“So our main competitor at the time was Tableau.”
“a BI tool like Looker or Tableau as well, and they could use it.”
“for example reporting software you know Tableau or you know any kind of reporting product”
“it's Google Sheets it's your Luca Tableau dashboards it's your amplitude charts and reports”
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