Markets
BI Goes Agentic: Tableau Next, Looker BI Agents and Power BI Copilot Replace Dashboards With 'Ask a Question'
Every major BI platform has shipped autonomous analytics agents in 2026 — Tableau Next (agentic plus Gemini natural language), Looker's BI Agents/Dashboard Agents/Agentic Workflows that monitor metrics and recommend actions, and Power BI deprecating its Q&A feature in December 2026 in favor of Copilot. The generative-AI dataviz market hit $5.75B (growing 14.7%), and the pattern is a shift from 'build a dashboard' to agents that proactively investigate data — eroding the seat-based dashboard model that defined Tableau and Looker.
Source
↳ Follow the thread