# Exploring Tableau's New Direction: Deepdive and what to expect in 2025 (Fixed)

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2025-02-18
- **Format:** Video · 84 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** AI & ML, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud, pulse, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/exploring-tableau-s-new-direction-deepdive-and-what-to-expect-in-2025-fixed
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYonc_Mv1_U

I walk through a leaked Tableau presentation from late last year, breaking down the new Agent Force-powered platform, the shift from 'products' to 'experiences', and the new Data Pro, Concierge, Inspector and Analytical Apps skills. I add context from my experience in the Tableau Visionary programme on what's realistic versus aspirational in the demo.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau is restructuring around 'experiences' (Data Pro, Concierge, Inspector, Analytical Apps) rather than separate products like Prep, Desktop and Server
- Agent Force lets you build agents in Salesforce that query trusted Tableau data sources and answer questions conversationally in Slack or Teams
- The rollout timeline spans 2025: visualization pilot and semantic availability now, marketplace in October, Agent Force skills later in the year without a firm date
- Tableau Server users won't get the new AI capabilities — this is a Cloud-first initiative
- The demoed data-cleaning and semantic-model suggestions go beyond what Tableau Agent can currently do, so treat the demo as aspirational rather than shipped

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why this video and how feedback works
- 3:08 Salesforce scene-setting and the AI gap narrative
- 7:35 Agent Force platform diagram explained
- 9:32 2025 rollout timeline for new Tableau
- 13:46 Matt Miller's demo begins: mindset shift story
- 18:02 Four new skills: Data Pro, Concierge, Inspector, Analytical Apps
- 22:58 Building an agent in Agent Force Builder
- 28:33 Testing the recruiting agent and trusted data
- 30:57 Agent answers questions live in Slack
- 35:27 Inside the new Data Pro visualization experience
- 37:57 Connecting and cleaning data with the agent
- 42:36 Semantic models and locked vs derived models

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/exploring-tableau-s-new-direction-deepdive-and-what-to-expect-in-2025-fixed

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