{"id":59983,"date":"2022-10-10T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=59983"},"modified":"2022-12-07T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:40:33","slug":"tableau-president-on-closing-the-data-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/tableau-president-on-closing-the-data-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Tableau CRO: Why Companies Must Close the Widening Data Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eighty-three percent of CEOs want a data-driven organization, according to a recent survey<\/a>. And yet, only thirty percent believe they have one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making data-driven decisions has never been more important. In an era when organizations are accumulating massive amounts of data every day, and facing uncertainty in a highly unusual economic and political environment, being able to see and understand data is critical to making smarter, more strategic decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Dreamforce \u201822<\/a>, <\/strong>Salesforce and Tableau announced <\/strong>innovations that use automated, intelligent, and real-time data to improve decision making. This includes Salesforce Genie<\/a>, a new hyperscale real-time customer data platform that powers the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. Now with Tableau Genie and Tableau Light, companies can easily unlock analytics for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, Salesforce President and Tableau Chief Revenue Officer Ryan Aytay discusses his journey at Salesforce and unpacks how these innovations are helping to close the data gap and democratize data-driven decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q. You’ve been at Salesforce for 15 years. How have the company and your role changed over that time?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Currently, I serve as Salesforce President and Chief Revenue Officer of Tableau<\/a>, but my time at Salesforce has been a journey! I started in corporate development, with our M&A team, and I worked on some of our key acquisitions \u2013 the ones that helped grow Marketing Cloud<\/a> and Service Cloud<\/a>. I also worked with our business development and partnership organizations, including our strategic partnership business, which is still intact today. And I worked closely with Bret Taylor at Quip, serving as Co-CEO there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been so exciting to see the growth trajectory we\u2019ve been on throughout my time at the company, and to see the true Customer 360 vision that we\u2019ve been working on together really come to fruition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q. Dreamforce just finished. How was the event for you?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been to 14 or 15 Dreamforces, and I\u2019d say this was one<\/a> of the best. The feedback I received was great, and not just regarding our business or our products. It felt like our commitment to our values \u2014 from equality through to sustainability \u2014 really came through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was fortunate enough to have some amazing conversations with customers and it made me realize what a profoundly unusual time this is for companies. Customers I talked with say they are dealing with supply chain crises, labor shortages due to political issues, and longer-term challenges coming out of the pandemic. It\u2019s a hugely difficult environment in which to make business decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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