As of 14 October 2025, Data Cloud has been rebranded to Data 360. During this transition, you may see references to Data Cloud in our application and documentation. While the name is new, the functionality and content remains unchanged.

This is a quickstart guide to Tableau Next setup for someone with no Salesforce experience or who hasn’t created a Salesforce org. Tableau Next is a flexible, agentic analytics platform built in Salesforce and integrated with a unified data layer, trusted semantics and Salesforce with Agentforce. Because Tableau Next uses the power of Data Cloud and AI for analysis, you need to set them up inside a Salesforce org before you and others on your team can use Tableau Next.

Who this guide is for: This guide assumes one person will walk through all the setup steps, acting as a Salesforce Admin, Data Cloud Architect and Tableau Next Admin. But you can choose to assign these roles to different people, too.

What this guide is for: The goal of this guide is to walk a designated person through the minimum required setup steps for Tableau Next. If a step doesn’t work or you need more information, you can find more in-depth task and conceptual information in the help links for each step.

What this guide is not: This guide does not go into all of the planning and setup steps possible when implementing a Salesforce org, Data Cloud, Tableau Semantics or AI in Salesforce. Your Salesforce rollout strategy(Link opens in a new window) and Data Cloud strategy(Link opens in a new window) require planning to get the most out of them.

After you go through these steps to start working in Tableau Next, you can take further CRM implementation steps that work best for your business.

What’s next? An overview of the entire process:

1. Activate your Salesforce Org

   1. Activate your Salesforce Org

   2. Add users

   3. Verify Data Cloud and Tableau Semantics are provisioned

   4. Create a Data Cloud Architect

   5. Create a Tableau Next Admin

2. Configure Data Cloud and Enable Tableau Next

   1. Add Data Cloud permissions for users

   2. Enable data connectors in Data Cloud

   3. Add Tableau Next permissions for users

   4. Enable Tableau Next

3. Enable GenAI (recommended)

   1. Set up Einstein Generative AI

   2. Set up Einstein Trust Layer

   3. Turn on Einstein Generative AI data collection and storage

   4. Enable Agentforce

4. Configure Tableau Next (recommended)

1. Set up Agentforce for Analytics

2. Enable Semantics AI

5. Tableau Next in Slack

   1. Enable Slack Integrations

   2. Enable Metric Insight Summaries

6. Add data to Data Cloud (bonus)

7. Add assets to Tableau Next (bonus)

Ready? Let’s get started.

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