Agentic BI Turns Dashboards Into Conversations — Tableau Next and Looker Agents Make Natural-Language Query Table Stakes
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Tableau Next now layers Gemini-powered natural-language querying and agent-triggered actions into Slack and Salesforce, while Looker's agents translate plain English into LookML and embed conversational analytics into existing dashboards — collapsing the analyst-built-dashboard workflow into 'ask, generate the query, run, explain.' Gartner projects half of business decisions will be AI-augmented by 2027, with the augmented-analytics market near $38B in 2026. The category pressure lands hardest on manual dashboard tooling and the analyst-as-query-writer role.