Lowenstein Sandler represented Waii, a leading enterprise-grade natural language-to-SQL platform, in its acquisition by Salesforce. Waii’s technology translates plain-language questions into complex, production-ready SQL queries, helping users access and act on data more naturally and efficiently.
After the acquisition closes, Salesforce plans to integrate Waii into Data Cloud. Waii’s core technology, which dynamically constructs a metadata knowledge graph of an enterprise’s data, will power agentic workflows and AI-driven insights across the Salesforce platform, including Agentforce and Tableau Next.
The technology is expected to enhance Salesforce’s ability to deliver more intuitive ways to explore and manage data. It will form the foundation of Tableau’s next-generation semantic engine, powered by a live knowledge graph. This will enable faster, more relevant analytics through true language-driven exploration, where the system understands the user’s intent, not just their words.
Waii’s team includes deeply technical founders with expertise in data infrastructure, engineering, and knowledge graph systems. Their work reflects years of focused development on one of the most fundamental challenges in enterprise AI: helping people and systems speak the language of data, fluently, securely, and at scale.
The Lowenstein team included Meredith Beuchaw, Chandra K. Shih, Ed Zimmerman, Yuan Tian, Bonnie E. Schipper, and Crystal McDonald.
