My background
As Chief Product Officer, Southard sets product strategy and leads the product management teams for Analytics products at Salesforce, including Tableau, CRM Analytics, Operational Reporting, and Data Cloud Reporting.
My expertise
Prior to Salesforce, Southard held executive product and marketing roles at enterprise software companies in the Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science market, including Celonis, Domino Data Lab, Birst, Right 90, and Siebel Analytics.
Southard's latest articles
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The Open Semantic Interchange entered the Apache Incubator as Apache Ossie (Incubating), backed by a growing coalition of 50+ data and AI leaders.
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Ending Semantic Drift: The First Unified Business Logic Foundation for AI and BI
The Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) v0.1 standard provides the semantic foundation for trustworthy agentic AI, analytics, and autonomous business action.
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The Agentic Enterprise Starts With What You Already Have
How open analytics interoperability empowers businesses to unlock AI-driven insights without starting from scratch.
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The Agentic Future Demands an Open Semantic Layer
Salesforce is making a first-of-its-kind commitment with an alliance of industry leaders to build towards an open, interoperable future required to accelerate agentic AI.
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Making Reporting Ubiquitous: A sneak peek at the Reports & Dashboards roadmap
Salesforce’s new Custom Report Type interface is here to save your day. Now, you can easily manage and understand custom report types, plus connect to Salesforce Data Cloud for improved reporting and customer experiences.
