Coming soon in Tableau 2021 4

0:00Hey it's Tim here. 21.4 is coming soon.

0:02Tableau have updated the page to tell us

0:04what's coming

0:05in this new release, so let's get stuck

0:07into these features and find out what's

0:08coming soon.

0:09Okay so the coming soon page is live, I'll

0:11put it up on screen so you can go and check

0:13this out for

0:13yourself. It's also in the description so

0:15you can go ahead and click it, skip this

0:17video and just go

0:18read it for yourself if you want to, but I

0:19'm going to talk through these as quickly as

0:21I possibly

0:22can just to give you a very high overview

0:24of what's going on. Now if I scroll down,

0:27this is

0:27sort of interesting because as these

0:29releases sort of start to come, there seems

0:31to be something

0:32always new with the coming soon pages.

0:34Normally we get some sort of announcement

0:36of the actual

0:36version here, but it just says coming soon.

0:39No release date as ever, but that's to be

0:41expected.

0:41So if we just do a quick rundown, we have

0:43virtual connections, connected apps, ask

0:46data and slack

0:47integration, centralized row level security

0:49, published data sources, copy and paste in

0:52dashboards, hallelujah. Tableau exchange,

0:54hire me for tableau public, tableau acceler

0:57ators,

0:57these are essentially dashboard starters.

0:59It's a bit of a rebrand but it's going to

1:01sort of

1:01get a big boost I think in this release.

1:04Replay animation, so see animations again.

1:07Salesforce style color palettes, yes yes,

1:09Salesforce is creeping more and more into

1:11the product.

1:11New formatting capabilities, mobile

1:14improvements, mobile, mobile is one of the

1:16best parts of

1:17tablets, just not used enough and I love

1:19seeing improvements to the mobile

1:20experience because it

1:21means that hopefully in the future these

1:23devices become a prominent way of using

1:26tableau. Let's

1:27carry on. Multi data source support in map

1:29layers, now I really struggle to understand

1:31what this

1:31meant so we'll get into this a little bit

1:33later on and I'll update you. Metrics

1:35improvements,

1:36especially the ability to embed metrics in

1:39the embedded sort of capabilities in table

1:41au. So

1:42instead of embedding a viz you can now

1:43embed metrics, that's super cool. Access

1:46ibility,

1:46this is the second time in a row that

1:48accessibility is getting improvement, so it

1:51's really

1:51something that tableau is focusing on here

1:53which is great. Inherited lineage

1:55descriptions, this is

1:56going to be cool when you're working with

1:58the data catalog and you want those

1:59descriptions to sort of

2:01propagate throughout your data sources.

2:03Tableau bridge multi-pool support, so this

2:05is going to be

2:05interesting. Subscription emails for flow

2:08completion, so essentially the ability to

2:10be told

2:10when the flow has finished. New connectors

2:12in tableau exchange, the tableau exchange

2:14was one

2:15of the biggest announcements in the keynote

2:17and now we're getting the new connectors

2:19starting to

2:19sort of trickle in. Essentially the

2:21marketplace is getting filled up which is

2:23good to see.

2:24Support for Linux RHEL 8.3 plus, this is

2:27for tableau server. Tableau server ATR,

2:30this is

2:31authorization to run. We'll get into this a

2:32little bit later so don't worry too much

2:34about that,

2:34I'll try and explain it the best as I can.

2:37And last but not least offline activation

2:39improvements,

2:39this is going to be again another quality

2:41of life improvement especially those people

2:43who have to

2:44pick up tableau servers in disaster

2:45recovery scenarios. So that's pretty much a

2:48rundown of

2:48all the features. Now I do have to say this

2:51is not always the full list, this is just

2:54simply what

2:54marketing has decided to focus on in this

2:57release. When we actually get the official

2:59release and the

3:00documentation comes out there is always a

3:02list of changes and new features and some

3:05of them are just

3:06so small they don't make it into this sort

3:08of headline set of features. So don't

3:10assume that

3:10this is it, there's a whole load more. In

3:12fact tableau normally put out a slide

3:14showing you all

3:15the features and all the changes on their

3:17own announcement page so look out for that,

3:20it's going

3:20to be something interesting there as well

3:22when this one comes out as well. So that's

3:24a rundown

3:24of all the features, let's get stuck into

3:26these a little bit more. Now before we get

3:29stuck in I just

3:29want to highlight, look you can go and

3:31catch all of the previous versions and all

3:33the previous

3:34releases over on tableautim.com. If you go

3:36to tableautim.com on the home page you'll

3:38see that

3:39the 2021.3 banner is there. If you go to

3:42that you can see I've got 14 videos on 21.3

3:44. If you go to

3:46the playlist page you can see that I

3:47actually have a range of playlists across

3:49different topics.

3:50Look at this image, this image has

3:51disappeared, what the hell is wrong with

3:53that? Websites,

3:53I just can't stay on top of them. But

3:55nonetheless you can see here I have a

3:57playlist on 21.3,

3:58I have one on 21.2, I've been doing these

4:01for quite a while so if you're new to the

4:02channel be

4:03sure to check these out. If you missed

4:05conference I have a bunch of content here

4:06from conference as

4:07well that kind of summarizes it very

4:09quickly but we've also got some live

4:10streams that I did with

4:11Ravi so be sure to check that out. Now if

4:13we go to the release and start to go

4:15through in more

4:16detail, I always like this, this is always

4:18a little bit of fun. So let's start with

4:19virtual

4:20connections. Now when we click on these

4:22tableau is normally very good by giving us

4:24these drop

4:24downs and this is sort of what I rely on to

4:26talk about these features. So virtual

4:28connections,

4:29virtual connections are a new content type

4:31in tableau server and tableau online that

4:33are used

4:34to create and share access to tables.

4:36Essentially you've got the ability to

4:37create a connection

4:38centrally on tableau server and then other

4:40people can use this connection to connect

4:42to data. It's

4:43a pretty sort of straightforward feature. C

4:45inquely embed service account credentials,

4:47define data policies and extract data

4:49centrally. So this is really cool because

4:52when you centrally define connections and

4:54you're doing it within the server sort of

4:57environment,

4:58what you can then expect to be able to do

5:00is to define who can see what essentially.

5:03So

5:04something that I think is also a separate

5:06item here, you can see it here just below

5:08centralized row level security, this is

5:10almost an implicit capability of being able

5:12to do virtual

5:13connections. So the idea is you create a

5:15virtual connections and you democratize

5:17that across the

5:18business and then what you do with

5:19centralized row level security is you put

5:21in security policies to

5:23essentially define what people can or can't

5:25see depending on what part of the

5:26organization they're

5:27in or what groups they're part of and so on

5:29and so forth. So these two features really

5:32come in

5:32unison. There's no real point in doing

5:34virtual connections if you're not then

5:36going to give

5:36people the ability to do row level security

5:39. What I'd love to see in the future is

5:41column level

5:42security. So not just being able to say hey

5:44these rows are available to these people

5:46but even pulling

5:47out metrics and removing them for certain

5:49users that would make some dashboards so

5:51much easier to

5:52build especially in fast moving consumer

5:54goods environments where some business

5:56units can see

5:57certain metrics. Let's say finance can

5:59sometimes see finance metrics but sales

6:01people can't

6:02necessarily see the full data that's

6:03sometimes a requirement in some

6:05organizations. So I can't wait

6:06to see where that goes but as always this

6:08is the first release so let's look forward

6:10to see what

6:10Tableau does with this over in the future.

6:12Okay if we go back up to the top we've got

6:14connected apps.

6:15Now connected apps is sort of a difficult

6:17one to understand it can kind of sounds

6:18like an app store

6:19has been launched or something sort of

6:20weird is out there. Well essentially the

6:22way to think of

6:23this is Tableau's rebuilt the way it

6:25handles connections from other applications

6:27. Other

6:28applications can essentially be built by

6:30developers. Let's say you're building a web

6:32portal and you'd like to embed Tableau

6:34visas inside of your portal. Well in order

6:36to do that

6:37you need to be able to authenticate with

6:39Tableau and in order to authenticate with

6:41Tableau you need

6:41to develop some form of trust and that

6:44trust can essentially be a handshake in the

6:45Tableau. Well

6:46this has essentially been called trusted

6:48tickets in other parlences you might have

6:50heard of things

6:51like single sign-on and that being another

6:53de facto way of handling trust between two

6:55applications.

6:56Essentially what Tableau has done is they

6:58've made the Tableau server and Tableau

7:00online setup

7:01more in line with what happens across web

7:03technology today. So this is going to make

7:06it

7:06much easier to create an application and

7:08have it talk to Tableau in a way that

7:10persists that is

7:11easy to use and manage and this I think

7:13will enable new things in the future. So if

7:15you think

7:16of things like the Tableau exchange it's

7:17kind of important to have this because as

7:19people start to

7:20integrate more and more into Tableau these

7:22are the kind of connections you're going to

7:23want them to

7:24be able to create. So I'm not a techie I

7:26don't fully understand the full benefits of

7:29this I'd

7:30encourage you to maybe go watch a developer

7:32session I'll try and find some if I can. I

7:35don't

7:35think there has been anything publicly yet

7:36although there might have been something at

7:38conference if there has been I'll put it in

7:40the description below be sure to check that

7:42out.

7:42Next up we have Slack now Tableau keeps

7:45making this feature even better of course

7:48we've had

7:49Dreamforce and Tableau conference talk

7:51heavily about Slack first analytics. What

7:53we've got in

7:53this release is the ability to share a viz

7:56from our Stata to Slack so it's not quite

7:58both ways

7:59yet you still can't use our Stata in Slack

8:01that was sort of touted to come out at some

8:03point next

8:04year but in essence this is the first step

8:06so we're going to get incremental steps

8:07here to try

8:08and make this feature better and it's good

8:10to see sort of Tableau stick into that

8:11roadmap there so

8:13that's pretty straightforward. We've talked

8:15about row level security that's a pretty

8:16straightforward

8:17one I think that's going to make it easier

8:19the row level security paper by Tableau is

8:21one that

8:22you have to kind of go through to

8:23understand all the different ways you can

8:24do this every time you

8:25come across a solution it's just a standard

8:27thing again I'll try and put that in the

8:29description

8:30below I'm going to have so many resources

8:31in these descriptions so bear with me as I

8:34get those all in

8:34there but nonetheless definitely check out

8:36that wire paper to understand why this is

8:38actually

8:38going to be a great feature. Edit publish

8:41data sources now what is cool about this is

8:43I believe

8:44you can rename and edit a publish data

8:45source from the web authoring interface so

8:48here we go

8:48manage data sources on the web just got

8:50easier so that's the key thing here not in

8:53desktop on the

8:54web so you have to go onto Tableau online

8:56or Tableau server in order to get this

8:58benefit say

8:58goodbye to downloading publish data sources

9:01to desktop to make your changes you can now

9:02edit

9:03publish data source directly in Tableau

9:05server and Tableau online test your changes

9:07and publish all

9:08without leaving the browser and then those

9:10changes essentially propagate down all the

9:11way down to

9:12your workbooks including being able to

9:14rename the connection so that's kind of

9:15useful it's going to

9:16make a lot of workflows a little bit faster

9:18sometimes what you had to do is you'd find

9:20a

9:20problem in the publish data source you'd

9:22have to open a workbook pull the data

9:24source down republish

9:26it back up and if you've forgotten the

9:27credentials you'd have to sort of make a

9:29local copy create a

9:30published data source again it's just such

9:32a mess so this is going to make things a

9:34lot lot easier.

9:35The next one I can't believe we're really

9:38celebrating this you know and it's kind of

9:40funny

9:41it reminds me when Apple brought copy and

9:44paste to the iPhone in like version 3 and

9:47it was just

9:47such a euphoric moment for everyone who had

9:49an iPhone because until then you literally

9:52could not

9:52copy and text text in a message if you can

9:54't remember that then you're probably too

9:56young to be

9:57know about this this was even a thing but

9:59it took Apple like two to three years to

10:02bring copy and

10:02paste to the iPhone apparently it was a

10:04really difficult challenge nonetheless here

10:06we go Tableau

10:07sort of doing the same thing copy and paste

10:10and dashboards now I've got to be honest I

10:13have mixed

10:14feelings about this yes this is going to be

10:16a great workflow benefit if you've got a

10:18button

10:18and you want to create a duplicate go ahead

10:21do it now what is not 100 clear is that

10:24what exactly

10:26what are the parameters where this is going

10:28to stop it does say here easily copy and

10:30duplicate

10:30images text boxes web containers web page

10:33containers within the same and across

10:36different

10:36dashboards and work with in Tableau online

10:38and Tableau server and Tableau desktop okay

10:42so that

10:42doesn't include buttons that doesn't

10:44include uh vises and charts so this is

10:46going to be one of

10:47those things where you kind of have a habit

10:49copy and paste you think it works

10:50everywhere

10:51but in actual fact it doesn't and those

10:54particular features like if I wanted to

10:56copy a sheet I'd

10:57right click duplicate so there's another

10:59sort of there's sort of two worlds

11:01appearing here where in

11:02one set of objects you copy and paste and

11:05in another you create duplicates so I'd

11:08really love

11:09for this to be just sort of unified in some

11:11way or form I'd really love things to have

11:13sort of one

11:13unified language so if I copy and paste it

11:15's copy and paste everywhere if I'm on a

11:18dashboard I'd

11:18like to copy a chart and I create a copy

11:20automatically creates a duplicate sheet for

11:23me

11:23and vice versa if I copy a button it

11:25creates a duplicate button for me and not

11:28having to sort of

11:29just work within the sort of confines of

11:32images text boxes and containers um now

11:35what would be

11:35interesting is to know is if the objects in

11:37the containers come along with those

11:39containers I

11:40haven't really had a play with this I'm

11:42deliberately waiting until the thing is out

11:43because these things

11:45do change sometimes in the beta process I

11:46know there's been a lot of twitter posts

11:48about this

11:48it's basically gone viral before the

11:50release but nonetheless it'll be good to

11:52see how this is

11:53implemented so looking forward to putting

11:55this to the test that's going to be really

11:57really sort of

11:58nice to see the tableau exchange there's

12:00not much to share here other than to say

12:02look the tableau

12:03exchange is pretty much here if I actually

12:05go to another browser window let me open up

12:07another

12:07browser window here and we just search

12:10tableau exchange um I believe this is

12:12already live if I

12:13just go here to extension gallery.tableau.

12:16com this is what they're calling tableau

12:18exchange

12:18so um it's just a rebrand of the tableau um

12:21extension gallery but now they've given it

12:24a

12:24home to include extensions connectors and

12:27accelerators so this is pretty much live

12:29already

12:29you can go check this out no need to wait

12:31for the release and this is going to be

12:33interesting the

12:34great thing is it has some compatibility

12:36going back to 2018 1.2 all the way to 2019.

12:403 so essentially

12:41these versions are going to have support

12:44there is a bunch of versions here so 2020.3

12:46and 2020.2

12:48and I think 2020.4 are all losing support

12:51basically have lost support this month so

12:54be sure

12:54to sort of check your upgrade process for

12:57those things due to security issue and post

12:59gres but

12:59nonetheless everything is available here

13:01and you're going to be able to sort of just

13:03browse this so

13:03I probably should just do a whole separate

13:06video on dashboard extensions connectors

13:08and accelerators

13:09and really just sort of take every single

13:11one of them for a spin maybe these are

13:12better as a live

13:13stream try and see how many of them I can

13:15get through in a single live stream and

13:17just sort of

13:18get dig into them how easy are they are

13:20their prices all those questions if you've

13:22got

13:22interesting questions you'd love to know

13:24about these let me know and we sort of take

13:26them for

13:26a spin at some point soon okay if I go back

13:29um the the thing I should also add about

13:32the exchange is

13:33I think it also deserves its own video

13:35because um it's a real step change in the

13:38way tableau thinks

13:39tableau talked a lot about the higher the

13:42economy the tableau economy so this is

13:44going to be a

13:44fundamental part think of this as the app

13:47store for tableau and the developer program

13:50is basically

13:51going to be what's driving all of this so

13:53the economy is the people around it

13:54essentially the

13:55developers the exchange is the platform and

13:58everything else needs to be sort of formed

14:01over

14:01the next few years to really make this a

14:03thing for now it's just a web page that's

14:05been rebranded

14:07if I go to the hire me button this is

14:08really really cool and I love this feature

14:10because

14:10Priya is actually a colleague of mine at

14:12the information lab um she definitely does

14:14need

14:14hiring at least not yet but um look at look

14:16at our profile she's got an amazing sort of

14:19tableau

14:19public profile you can google priya padam

14:21and you'll find it um on google quite

14:23easily but

14:24nonetheless in linkedin sorry not in linked

14:27in this should be on linkedin but on tableau

14:30public you've

14:30now got a hire me button to let people know

14:32that you're available for hire so people

14:34can actually

14:35send you a message directly and I believe

14:37this goes to your email so this is going to

14:39be really

14:40really nice and people can get in touch

14:41with you and say hey are you available to

14:43work this is

14:44great because it really starts to make the

14:46tableau public profiles the centerpiece for

14:49the economy

14:49essentially all the effort that we've

14:51invested over the years on our tablet

14:53public profiles

14:54is certainly going to sort of come to use

14:56now I'm in a bit of a sticky situation

14:58because I have not

14:59published anything to public in ages it's

15:02just something I just haven't had time and

15:04to be honest

15:05the passion to really get involved with I

15:07've really struggled with stuff like tableau

15:08public

15:09I'm a consultant I build stuff for clients

15:11I like to solve problems hands-on I'm not

15:14so creative

15:14when it comes to sort of making these

15:16amazing visits that really push the

15:18creative boundaries

15:19of tableau to the very edge so I just I

15:21just does it sort of just doesn't come to

15:23me naturally as

15:24wanting to do that unless I'm passionate

15:26about it so quantified stuff from formula

15:28one and those are

15:28the things I'm going to start doing more of

15:30in the future because there's a pretty much

15:32the only data

15:32sets that I really sort of get excited

15:34about if that makes sense if I go to the

15:36next item here

15:37this is tableau accelerators again these

15:39are part of the exchange so it's kind of

15:41like two

15:42announcements in one here these are

15:43dashboard starters essentially templates

15:46that you can put

15:46into your particular organization and just

15:49have something to go right out of the game

15:51this was

15:52actually made possible via a purchase of a

15:55company called lintao again I can never

15:58remember this name

15:59so salesforce acquires um salesforce acqu

16:03ires a lot of things so this does not help

16:07um so you can

16:08see I've googled it in the past here lintao

16:10sa there you go I don't know I don't even

16:13know how

16:13to say that if you know how to say this

16:15properly let me know but no we're thrilled

16:17salesforce has

16:17acquired lintao sa a global tableau partner

16:20based in switzerland that delivers

16:22analytics

16:22and dashboard templates and consuming

16:24expertise and consulting expertise in

16:26dashboard design so

16:27lintao business they basically make

16:30templates I don't know if there's a link to

16:32lintao website

16:33here there probably isn't so if I just go

16:36and grab this link maybe the website has

16:38been sunset no

16:40it's still there it's still there so um I'm

16:43surprised this is still here um essentially

16:46so

16:46maybe they're they're keeping this up as

16:48the consulting sort of aspect of the sales

16:50force

16:51acquisition of these guys but essentially

16:52if you're looking for a dashboard these

16:54guys have

16:54built templates in lots of these sectors

16:56ready to go and what tableau have done is

16:58they've essentially

16:59brought these over and they've turned them

17:01into what they call dashboard starters and

17:03have now

17:04rebranded to dashboard accelerators so this

17:06is basically what this is so you can go

17:09over here

17:10to the accelerators tab from the tableau

17:11exchange and you have them pretty much

17:13ready to go so if I

17:14click at this one opportunity view you'll

17:16see there's a dashboard ready to go which

17:18shows the

17:18opportunity wins and losses and it's a very

17:21basic starting point but for companies who

17:23have zero this

17:24is a great starting point and the other

17:25thing is these come with data sources in

17:27there and then

17:28what you've also got are partners of choice

17:30so these are essentially partners that are

17:32going to

17:33be able to sort of help you deal with this

17:35so I don't know how sort of that list has

17:36been brought

17:37by I'm a bit sad not to see the information

17:39lab in all of these but nonetheless um if

17:41you want to

17:42check us out be sure to check us out I'm

17:44certain we could kick out on pretty much

17:46all of these

17:46templates so uh be in touch let us know

17:48more and we're more than happy to help but

17:51nonetheless if

17:52I sort of keep on on my march of the new

17:54features accelerators here they're

17:56essentially templates

17:58check them out once they're available re

18:00playing animations this is a pretty obvious

18:02one and you

18:03see an animation you kind of see it play

18:05through and they've now got a new icon that

18:07lets you sort

18:08of replay them so that's a pretty

18:09straightforward one there's not much to

18:11sort of celebrate there

18:12salesforce palette oh god you know sales

18:15force is slowly creeping into tableau you

18:17know it's it's

18:18it's slowly happening and this to me feels

18:20like a totally unnecessary change you could

18:23have just

18:24shipped us all tps files um in fact that's

18:26probably all that's happening they've

18:28changed

18:28the tps file in the base install of tableau

18:31and they've called it a feature you could

18:33have done

18:33this without this it's sort of not

18:35necessary I could have sent you a file with

18:36all these features

18:37in fact if you've got an old version of

18:39tableau I can send you the tps file so you

18:42have this feature

18:43too it's not something that's exclusive to

18:45this particular version but nonetheless

18:48here they are

18:48you can use the salesforce colors I think

18:50this is so that your dashboards can look

18:52and feel a bit

18:53like salesforce right so you can build dash

18:55boards that sort of blend into the sales

18:57force environment

18:58so that's um that's going to be useful to

19:00know and new formatting capabilities

19:02improvements to

19:03the web essentially so choose from a

19:05variety of number and date formatting

19:07options for parameters

19:08on tableau online and tableau server

19:11essentially web edit looks like it's

19:12getting a bit more beefed

19:13up so the formatting capabilities for

19:15parameters is going up for date fields use

19:18any common date

19:19and time format or quickly customize it

19:21according to your company standards so

19:23formatting slowly creeping in essentially

19:26web edit is catching up to the desktop

19:28version I keep saying

19:29that this will be the year every year

19:31hopefully this is actually the year

19:33improvements to mobile

19:34I find the data you need faster with

19:36collections and shared with me now

19:38available in tableau

19:39mobile so this is a nice sort of catch-up

19:42mechanic here so tableau mobile didn't have

19:44collections and

19:45shared with me this is now a section that's

19:47available so that's pretty pretty

19:48straightforward

19:49we'll actually be able to play with this

19:51once the app gets updated multiple data

19:53source support in

19:55map layers so this is really cool let me

19:58just read through this so I can try and

20:00make sure I've

20:01understood this correctly the capability of

20:02adding an unlimited number of layers to

20:04your map

20:05visualization got more powerful with

20:07support for multi-data sources and map

20:09players you can now

20:10analyze more data in the context of one

20:12another for example you can build a map

20:14that shows your

20:15retail stores location accessibility

20:17population and revenue all coming from

20:19different data sources

20:21so this is super cool because previously

20:24what you had to do is get all of that data

20:27into one

20:27data source using either the data model or

20:30whatever other sort of mechanism you wanted

20:32to use

20:33joins or whatever and then once you had

20:35them all in one data source you then had to

20:37use map layers

20:37to sort of get them in on each other with

20:39this one what you can do is you can

20:41essentially bring in

20:42disparate data sets and just create the

20:44mapping assets from them because

20:45essentially the mapping

20:46items don't really need a context because

20:49you know the world is the content the map

20:51is the context so

20:52I'm super interested to see how people hack

20:55this map layers are already pretty you know

20:58virulently hacked so I'm looking forward to

21:01see what creative solutions people come up

21:03with

21:04for building charts with disparate data

21:06sources basically you can take sort of map

21:10map layers to

21:11the next level and just build visual

21:12izations on one sheet essentially with this

21:15capability so that

21:15will be really really interesting to see

21:17how that works and what people do with that

21:19but yeah I'm

21:20fully anticipating the hacks for this

21:22release for this particular feature if you

21:24're using this for

21:25mapping this is going to be a nice quality

21:27of life improvement just makes things that

21:29little bit

21:29easier now if I go to metrics improvements

21:31this is cool the two things have changed

21:34here you can

21:35embed metrics in an embedded platform so

21:37you instead of just embedding a viz you can

21:39actually

21:39just take the metric instead the metrics

21:41are nice because they're consistent they

21:43feel really nice

21:44and because they're designed with the sort

21:46of big ass numbers and a sort of a spark

21:49line they look

21:49really nice and they look sort of

21:51standardized and this is one of those

21:52things where we're not

21:53building the charts it's actually being

21:55done for you so you build a dashboard

21:57create a bunch of

21:58metrics from it you could even create a

21:59dashboard purposely for the benefit of

22:01metrics and then once

22:03you've done that you go take all these

22:04metrics and you put them in an embedded

22:06platform just as

22:07a bunch of metrics and when people click on

22:09them they go to the relevant viz super cool

22:11right so

22:12that's now a feature that's going to be

22:14available in 21.4 the other thing is you

22:16can now do status

22:17indicators and targets inside of this as

22:20well so you can say look this is the target

22:22this is the

22:22value and when it's above do red and when

22:25it's below do green okay you might choose

22:27blue and

22:28orange instead of those colors but

22:29nonetheless that's going to be a nice

22:31quality of life

22:31improvement and so i'm looking forward to

22:34seeing that when it lands i've also made

22:36some assumptions

22:37there that you can change the color but

22:38again we have to wait and see these and

22:40when they come out

22:41accessibility is always important at table

22:43au more improvements for keyboard and screen

22:45reader

22:45accessibility on tablo server and tab

22:47online you can easily walk headers you can

22:50easily walk

22:51headers to select and access them to view

22:53data you can also hear verbal descriptions

22:56of all the member

22:56names of the field so slowly adding this in

22:59i it's one of those things i have to use it

23:01to really

23:01understand what's going on here if you've

23:03never done it give yourself the challenge

23:05of getting to

23:06a dashboard without using your mouse

23:08essentially and all you can use are the um

23:11keyboard essentially

23:13and you can even give yourself the added

23:15challenge of going on the tableau landing

23:17page closing your

23:18eyes and only using your keyboard to

23:20navigate to the various things in order to

23:22do that you have

23:23to understand the accessibility

23:25capabilities of your laptop so be sure to

23:27do that beforehand

23:28and then go from there it's a really really

23:30tough challenge a colleague a colleague of

23:32mine colin

23:32smith at the information lab he made us all

23:34do this and it really made me realize the

23:36challenges

23:37and the accessibility poses to individuals

23:40who have accessibility requirements and for

23:43the record

23:43whenever you have accessibility

23:44improvements it doesn't just best benefit

23:46people with accessibility

23:48needs it benefits everyone because everyone

23:50to some extent does benefit from

23:51accessibility needs

23:52whether it's making text bigger clearer

23:55improving contrast all of these things make

23:57using these

23:58products a better experience so these

24:00improvements are always good for everyone

24:02not just for people

24:03with accessibility needs if i go to the

24:06next feature inherited lineage descriptions

24:09um with

24:10this one essentially ensure that column

24:12level descriptions from data sources and

24:15workbooks

24:15are shared downstream so essentially you

24:17can type up descriptions in the catalog and

24:20then downstream

24:21at least on web edit these are picked up i

24:23believe that it's only in web edit though

24:25everywhere the

24:26data source will work because you use the

24:28descriptions will be consistent this also

24:30enabled descriptions editing at a single

24:32source so i'll have to test if these

24:34descriptions sort

24:35of propagate down to desktop i think they

24:38're only available in web edit and in the

24:40sort of

24:41metadata context of tabla online and tablo

24:44server but i might be wrong with that let's

24:46wait till that

24:46ships to find out tablo bridge multi-pool

24:50so this is essentially the concept of

24:53having multiple

24:54tablo bridge clients running and with but

24:57with bridge multi-pool it's a bit of a

24:59tongue twister

25:00i keep not being able to say that you can

25:02achieve multi-network connectivity with

25:04online schedules

25:06multi-pool supports bridge pools for each

25:08network so even the largest enterprise

25:10organization can

25:11see and understand their private network

25:13data in tablo online so basically i think

25:16this is a

25:16high level view of all the different tablo

25:19online clients you've got running and being

25:21able to pull

25:22them all up to do specific jobs again i'll

25:25be interested to try and see how this

25:27really works

25:28if you've used tablo bridge and i'd love to

25:31see sort of if you know where this might be

25:33of use

25:34and the only use case i can think of is

25:36when you have large organizers and i'm

25:39talking really large

25:40organizations running tablo online in lots

25:43of different places and you essentially

25:46need to be

25:47able to run tablo bridge in lots of

25:49different places to keep up with all of

25:51those requirements

25:52and by using a pool of machines to do this

25:55you can then sort of orchestrate each of

25:57these pools in a

25:58more sort of organized way rather than just

26:01you know relying on one machine to have to

26:03do everything

26:04so it might make things like extract refres

26:06hes and schedules a little bit more

26:08manageable because

26:09you've got a central hub for managing all

26:11these queries that are running so

26:13essentially this is

26:14going to allow this to be distributed

26:16across a bunch of machines essentially if i

26:19go to the next

26:20one subscription emails for flow completion

26:22so essentially i believe when this flow

26:24finishes

26:24you'll get an email say look this flow

26:27completed i'm hoping you can also have

26:30notifications when

26:31they don't finish i think that's the one i

26:32'll be switching on but it's good to know

26:34maybe you're

26:34depending on the flow to do something and

26:37that's going to be great and and one of the

26:40things i'd

26:40also love is i would love this flow

26:44subscription to trigger an email

26:46subscription so the same way

26:48we have link tasks and tablo prep i'd love

26:51for when this flow completion runs i'd love

26:55to then

26:55be able to trigger a subscription email for

26:58a dashboard because of course at that point

27:00the

27:00subscription's up to date and that's the

27:02best time to send it and it means that you

27:04can have

27:05tasks running when they're necessary rather

27:07than just running on a schedule every hour

27:09for no

27:10reason essentially so that's going to be a

27:12really really sort of nice sort of quality

27:15of life

27:15improvement if it gets added in the future

27:17and we've got new connectors on the tablo

27:19exchange

27:19so tablo are adding more connectors in this

27:22sort of space so the 25 connectors

27:25including a new one

27:26for salesforce marketing cloud zendesk

27:29service now sap hana and essentially what i

27:31think is happening

27:32here is they're reaching out to their

27:33partners and they're telling them build the

27:35connectors for

27:35tablo put them in our marketplace and let

27:38people start connecting to your data which

27:40is a good way

27:41to do it i think um it's pretty useful now

27:42these next few i need to double check my

27:44sources because

27:45i'm not okay with all these terms i don't

27:47even know what rhel 8.3 means if you do

27:50know um let

27:52me know i think this is a version of linux

27:54okay so let's let's go let's just google

27:57this let's

27:57just do the dumb thing which is um it's not

27:59the dumb thing it's actually the most

28:01intelligent

28:01thing so red hat uh enterprise linux rhel

28:05that's what that means okay we now know

28:08what that is so

28:09essentially this is a flavor of linux and

28:12they're specifically supporting version 8.3

28:15uh onwards

28:17essentially so in tablo 2004 tablo now

28:20supports deployments on linux uh red hat

28:23enterprise linux

28:258.3 plus so what i'm interested in what are

28:28the other versions because it says plus um

28:32let's

28:32agree and just accept these but uh let's go

28:35to red hat enterprise linux oh so there's

28:39actually

28:39a version 9 so there must have something

28:42something must have changed in 8.3 that was

28:45fundamental and

28:46now you can pretty much run 8.4 8.5 and 9

28:50is currently in beta and the reason this is

28:53good

28:53is because typically you want to stay up to

28:55date with these releases because the

28:57releases tend to

28:58patch security fixes so if you're not been

29:01able to update beyond 8.2 let's say

29:03assuming that's

29:04what tablo supported before or maybe never

29:07supported um from 8.3 plus you're going to

29:10be

29:10able to sort of um get the updates going at

29:12least for your operating system it's one of

29:14those things

29:14you just have to check you never know if

29:16upgrading your operating system it's going

29:18to break tablo

29:18and at least i think for that and that's

29:20going to be useful for people to know next

29:23one is server

29:24authorization to run server atr now enabled

29:27by default server authorization to run um

29:30atr product

29:31activation makes licensing tablo server in

29:34cloud container or virtual environment

29:37deployment easier

29:38by removing the need to refresh or de

29:40activate keys and removing or reducing

29:42maximum activation errors

29:44so i get what this feature does i'd love to

29:47know the mechanics of how it does that um

29:50so again when

29:51the documentation comes out we'll have a

29:53dive we'll have a look at it and we'll try

29:55and sort of get

29:56those um out and explained offline

29:58activation improvements and for air gaps

30:01tablo server

30:02deployments benefit benefit from the

30:04removal of a single pass activation for the

30:06first license the

30:07clear error message and improved file

30:10naming clearer error messages and improved

30:13file naming so

30:14again i i i i haven't worked with air gaps

30:18tablo servers enough um to really

30:22understand the impact

30:24of this typically most tablo servers i've

30:25installed have had some sort of internet

30:27connection so i've

30:28always been able to rely on the activation

30:31methods that's sort of publicly available

30:33and so i'd love

30:34to know if you've used an air gap server i

30:36'd love to know what are the challenges and

30:38why does this

30:39feature make life easier and when the

30:40documentation comes out this might become

30:43more apparent as well

30:44so yeah that's pretty much all the features

30:46boy it's a it's a weird list and it's a

30:48real sort of

30:49hodgepodge of features but i think they're

30:51all sort of cute and small and it's

30:53definitely not

30:54a quiet release i think there's a lot in

30:56here that everyone is going to like it's

30:58not one of

30:58those big hitter releases with something

31:01like the data model in there um but it's

31:02definitely a nice

31:03set of features to close out the year so

31:05that's pretty much the video if you've made

31:07it this far

31:07thank you so much really appreciate it and

31:09when i make these long videos they're a

31:11real slog and

31:13i know that some of you do actually make it

31:14to the end typically 10 to 20 percent of

31:17you so i really

31:17really appreciate it um you're exactly the

31:19kind of person i'm actually interested in

31:21getting some

31:22feedback on because essentially i'm going

31:25to be doing a review of tableau the whole

31:27entire year's

31:28release of stuff essentially i'm fed up

31:30with the way that gartner mess up the

31:32reviews for all these

31:33br products so the only real way you can

31:35try and change that is to do a better

31:36review of the product

31:38itself so imagine a review done by someone

31:40who only uses one product it's probably not

31:42that

31:42useful but we can critique a bunch of

31:44things that we didn't see that we'd like to

31:46see and a bunch of

31:47things we want to see that we did see so if

31:49you know what those features are if you'd

31:51love to see

31:52a review let me know what you'd be

31:53interested to see in the review itself in

31:55the comments below

31:56i'm really really keen to hear more the

31:58other thing is this friday i'm going to be

32:00making a

32:00video about 2022 essentially next year on

32:04this channel i've got lots and lots of

32:06stuff to change

32:07and we have grown incredibly fast we've

32:09gone from basically zero and sort of table

32:12au related

32:13subscribers three years ago i started on

32:15about 800 just making these you know weird

32:18videos about

32:18layout containers and so on and so forth i

32:20didn't really do anything i started at less

32:22than 800

32:23and we're now at 21 000 as we are today

32:26which is crazy in the space of three years

32:28i really believe

32:29that there are more people out there that

32:31could benefit from understanding more about

32:33tableau

32:34but in general understanding more about

32:36analytics essentially tableau is not the

32:38only product that

32:39i know everyone uses people use excel

32:41people use altrix just did a survey a few

32:44weeks ago and it

32:45closed out with altrix being the top

32:47product that people want to know more about

32:49so that's going to

32:49be something that we're going to be

32:51exploring as well so on friday i'm going to

32:52go into all of this

32:53in detail so depending on when this video

32:55comes out it better come out on thursday or

32:57wednesday

32:58otherwise me saying this is going to make

33:00no sense but nonetheless thank you for

33:02staying to the end

33:03i'd really love to know your feedback let

33:05me know in the comments below and check out

33:06the video on

33:07friday because you're going to be the

33:08absolutely perfect audience for that if you

33:10've made it this

33:11far thanks for watching i'll catch you in

33:13the next video