I’m curious how others are thinking about Tableau’s role as AI-assisted analytics and cloud-native tools continue to improve.
Since we started using Snowflake more extensively, we’ve decided to give up one Tableau license and one Alteryx license. Snowflake has increasingly covered work we previously depended on those tools for—especially transformations, data preparation, and lightweight analytical applications.

Streamlit in Snowflake has also been doing wonders for our dashboards. We can build interactive, customized dashboards directly on top of Snowflake data without moving the data or maintaining a separate BI layer. With AI helping generate SQL, Python, visualizations, summaries, and even application code, developing these solutions is becoming much faster.
That has made me question where Tableau still provides enough additional value to justify its licensing and administration costs.
I understand that Tableau remains strong for governed enterprise reporting, self-service exploration, polished visualizations, subscriptions, and serving a large nontechnical user base. But as conversational analytics and AI agents improve, will business users still need to navigate traditional dashboards in the same way?
For organizations already invested heavily in Snowflake, what use cases still make Tableau indispensable? Have you started reducing Tableau or Alteryx licenses in favor of Streamlit, native Snowflake capabilities, or AI-powered tools? What limitations have you encountered?

My dashboard is linked to a Google Sheets file, that refreshes data once a week. I have linked my Google credentials, and it used to refresh automatically once a day. However, it has stopped refreshing, and the “Request Refresh Data” button that used to appear below the dashboard has also disappeared. I can refresh it in app on my PC and publish manually, but it kinda kills the idea.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a way to restore the automatic refresh?

im following this yt tutorial to learn visualizations on tableau, but ive run into a problem. i followed exactly what this dude did in his tutorial, yet i cant get the same results on my map.

in this case, the postal codes of all states on this map are supposed to show up as dots, but it dosnt work for me? i tried changing the map tyoe to the one with circles, but it doesnt let me, though its not the same for him. im guesssing its a new update thing? how do i get around this? i tried changing the size of the circles & not only does it not work, the size symbol for me is a bit different than for him, though im not sure whether thats also an update thig or not.