Tableau 2025.1 Features | Release Overview | See Timestamps

0:00Tableau 25.

0:011 features have been announced.

0:03In this video we're going to go through them as I usually do and I've got a bit of housekeeping to do at the beginning of this video as well.

0:08So as ever

0:09Let's get stuck in.

0:11Okay, so 25.

0:121, the page is up, the coming soon page is up.

0:15This is typically the page where Tableau sort of headline with the features they're gonna

0:19release in this release.

0:20But there's a couple of things to actually call out with this particular release and I think it's a trend that's going to continue going forward.

0:27The first thing is that it it feels like a lot of the features on this list, we're going to go through it shortly.

0:31A lot of the features on this list

0:33are actually already live.

0:35They relate partly to Tableau Pulse and partly to Tableau Cloud.

0:38But what's obvious is that some of these features are being rolled out

0:41as and when they're ready on Tableau Cloud and also on Tableau Pulse.

0:45So as we go through these we'll try and call that out.

0:48But just in case you're watching this video or you're looking at this page, you're thinking when are these going to be coming out

0:53Some of them are already live, so you can go ahead and use them.

0:56The other thing is that this release also includes Tableau Server.

1:00If you recall, Tableau Server only comes out

1:03every other release and additionally Tableau reduced the number of releases from three to sorry four to three so we only have three releases service skips every other release

1:14So I should say Salesforce are alternating releases.

1:17So we think I think we got a 24.

1:192 release last year.

1:20There was only one release last year for Tableau Server.

1:23So this year, Tableau Server, you're lucky you get one in 25.

1:261

1:27and again in 25.

1:283.

1:29So in terms of the release date, I typically kind of, you know, straw polling the previous I don't six releases I've been tracking, typically when we get this page the release typically drops at least eight to ten weeks after.

1:42So I'm sort of thinking mid-March for this, but I don't have any official dates.

1:45It's just me guessing off the top of my head it could happen sooner.

1:48And as I've said, some of these features are already live.

1:51So really it's just a rolling release.

1:53Anyway

1:54With all that said, let's start looking at this list.

1:57Okay, so as we scroll down the page, I think one thing I want to do right off the bat is just understand how many of these are for cloud and pulse and how many of these are for desktop.

2:07Because I think

2:08There is an interesting sort of split in the community about what people are interested in.

2:12I think for those of you who are interested in desktop-only features, you'll start to realize that some of these releases actually benefit the whole platform and some of them don't

2:21So if I go into this list, you've got a little drop-down, and this isn't always scientific, but if I select Tableau Desktop, you'll see that there's quite a few capabilities here.

2:31If we just scan them very briefly, some of these are familiar, we've heard of them before.

2:35Key pair authentication for Snowflake is something that we've heard of before.

2:39And but there's some meaningfully new things in here.

2:41Custom themes, I think that's going to be a huge one

2:43Info centering for relationships being improved and a fair few others.

2:47So this is sort of the high-level overview for that.

2:49For Tableau server, we actually have quite a few features that have already been released in Tableau Cloud last

2:55year in 24.

2:563 they just didn't come because there was no release for server so a lot of these are going to be uh quite familiar they're just essentially uh coming through to tableau server

3:05So you're going to get all of that benefit as well as anything that was due for this release as well.

3:09And then if we go to Tableau Cloud, this is going to have a lot more

3:13items the thing about tableau cloud is it includes tableau pulse so tableau pulse you see dominates this page is quite a lot of changes to tableau pulse

3:22Interestingly, I think most of these, if not all, are already live now.

3:25I actually just did a video which will be going live either after this video or before this video.

3:30uh covering some of these changes, some of the key changes.

3:33It's impossible to cover each and every one of them one by one, but nonetheless, yeah, the the these these are mostly live

3:39Um for the rest of this, there's quite a lot of meaningful changes here.

3:42So we're going to go through this in this video now.

3:44Um I like doing this because it's a good way to learn some of what the

3:48I think the the key themes are going to be and and also I think there's always some interesting sort of trends.

3:54I uh the the the number one thing I kind of

3:57pay attention to here is like the order of this page and what's gone where.

4:00I don't know if there's some sort of logic that I'm not aware of, but there does seem to be like a deliberate choice to have put

4:07Certain features further up.

4:08So let's start from the beginning.

4:10The first one is refresh private network flat files.

4:14So there seems to be a lot of work happening with Tableau Cloud, specifically Tableau Bridge

4:19And if you're familiar with working with flat files and Tableau Cloud, you'll know that you need something like Tableau Bridge in order for them to be able to work in a reliable way.

4:27Tableau Bridge is essentially a piece of software you install locally on a machine inside of your network.

4:33And its job is to push updates up to Tableau Cloud.

4:36That's essentially how it works.

4:37Now with this feature, it's saying here that you can essentially upload flat files to a UNC drive.

4:45Now a UNC drive is essentially a drive with a

4:48Universal Naming Convention.

4:49That's what UNC stands for.

4:51So when you use a share drive at work or SharePoint or anything like that, occasionally behind the scenes, IT enables something called a UNC.

4:58Now a UNC is a URL

5:00that specifically points to that server.

5:02And if that URL is public, then it it it stands to reason that Tableau Cloud can actually access that information.

5:09a little bit more easily.

5:11So you can see the diagram they have here which is sort of trying to um give that sort of description.

5:17But I I think

5:17Tableau Bridge is still involved.

5:19Uh this is one of those things where you actually have to work with it hands-on to fully understand uh sort of how it's set up.

5:24But essentially the ability to refresh flat files, I think it's something that a lot of Tableau Cloud customers

5:30Still having a lot of pain with and this is hopefully an improvement to that.

5:33I I don't know the full detail, so I'm not gonna pretend I know every single detail here

5:37But it's something to go and investigate.

5:39And hopefully the documentation is probably already out because Tableau Cloud just gets rolling updates.

5:43So we'll go ahead and check that out once it's live or maybe give it a go and see how that works.

5:48Okay

5:49The next one is prep query logging in resource monitoring tool.

5:53So the resource monitoring tool is uh an additional capability that you get with advanced management inside of Tableau

6:00Advanced management gives you more oversight over your Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server instance.

6:05And specifically here, what they've done is they've added logging related to Tableau Prep.

6:09So you can see if Tableau Prep is causing performance issues

6:12on your database you can see an example here where you are able to just get a preview of what a query looks like and so rmt stands for remote monitoring tool and now logs

6:22queries from Tableau Prep um show up so it's easy for admins to pinpoint issues that are potentially coming from those specific workflows.

6:30Okay, then we get a bunch of Tableau Pulse updates.

6:34So I'm gonna rattle through these because I you know I saw something on Reddit where everyone was like, yeah, never mind Tableau Pulse, let's go to the real stuff

6:40So I'm gonna sort of take that as a hint that most people are probably gonna want to s you know rattle through these.

6:45And it's an interesting choice that the next, I don't know

6:48like twelve things on here at Tableau Pulse.

6:50But anyway, Tableau Pulse.

6:51The first one is multilingual support, being able to cover a whole range of new languages.

6:56I don't have the full list, but I believe there's f

6:5814 uh languages.

6:59Um if you check out the Tableau release navigator you can get the details on that.

7:03But yeah, 14 new languages, which actually makes it

7:05a a pretty meaningful uh deal because a lot of organizations are m multinational so covering at least fourteen languages those are bound to be the sort of largest fourteen hopefully

7:15And and that's no mean feat, you know, getting getting your your product translated into other languages is uh a meaningful uh thing.

7:22Okay, Tableau Mobile site switches.

7:24So being able to quickly uh switch between sites on Tableau Mobile.

7:28I haven't used Tableau Mobile in a long, long while.

7:30I think I maybe have to just do a separate video and just go through tab the Tableau app, which covers both Tableau Cloud and Tableau Pulse in one app.

7:38So yeah, we'll have to

7:39just sort of give that a full run through tableau pulse period change and breakdown chart so here identify what is driving your business with the period over period changes of dimensions

7:48in the breakdown chart on the metric detail page.

7:50So yep, this feature is already available.

7:52So essentially you get a little bit of context to each breakdown that gives you what's happening based on the period that the metric is sort of running off.

8:00So if you've got this month versus last month,

8:03that sort of period over period change is reflecting that change so you can kind of get a context of what's going on.

8:09These are really sort of good bits of context.

8:10And I have to say like

8:12A lot of this capability in Tableau Pulse is actually quite useful because this is just the raw stuff that people are actually after.

8:17You know, sometimes people don't need dashboards, they just need answers.

8:21And being able to just have these numbers quickly, I think, is a really nice touch.

8:24Tableau Pulse drill down from breakdown.

8:27or insights chart so this is essentially being able to click on one of these charts you can see this here you can see this in the demo here and it takes you into that specific thing now the interesting thing about each of these is when you click in you can actually follow these individual sort of drill

8:46So you can kind of use your discovery approach as a way of

8:50Finding new metrics that you want to follow.

8:51Maybe you want to follow them briefly just because there's some seasonal activity.

8:55It's a really sort of nice touch to have there.

8:57Okay, Tableau Pulse, turn off expected range alerts.

9:01So basically

9:02You can turn off the ability to have Tableau Pass alert you when there's unexpected ranges.

9:08Now, this is useful because

9:10You might have noise that's quite uh data that's quite noisy, sorry.

9:13Maybe there's a lot of volatility in your data just naturally.

9:16So being able to turn that off I assume is is quite a quite a good thing.

9:19Um and so y you'll you'll

9:22You'll remove that insight text and it kind of maybe distracts distracts you in the updates that you get.

9:27The next one is revamped homepage on mobile.

9:30So again, I need to try the mobile app, but just basically improving how that looks on

9:34Mobile, which is kind of good.

9:35Tableau pulse corner style for pulse metrics.

9:38So this is cool.

9:40This is cool.

9:41I've actually sort of seen this in my new video.

9:43So what they're basically saying here is you can enhance the look of pulse metrics

9:47You can switch between corner styles for pulse metrics and the pulse dashboard objects.

9:51So basically being able to choose whether you get like rounded corners or no corners, basically.

9:57It's it's basically a very what's the word?

9:59Uh it's an aesthetic change here.

10:01Um I've I've covered this in my video as well, so go ahead and check out the Tableau Pass video I just put up

10:06Link related content.

10:07Now this I didn't see in my instance of Tableau Pass, so it's not in the video, I'll cover it later.

10:11But essentially you can link related content

10:14Like maybe a dashboard or maybe um data source to a pulse metric.

10:19So when you go look at the metric, people get a link back to the Tableau Cloud instance.

10:23So that's that's really useful, I think, because it starts to

10:26suggests that there's a bit more of an ecosystem between Pulse and Tableau Cloud itself even though Tableau Pulse uses the data sources so that should already be there.

10:34Pulse group and sort in Slack digests.

10:37So this is interesting.

10:38I don't know how um this works

10:40I'll be briefly honest, I've not used enough of the Slack capability to be able to understand how Tableau Pulse is really engaging with that.

10:46I do have Slack, I actually pay for a Slack instance for my one man band.

10:50I use it to automate a bunch of notifications into Slack because Slack just happens to wear

10:55really well with things like Zapia so I do have Slack.

10:58I'm gonna probably spend a little bit of time just really understanding how the Tableau Mobile app or the Tableau app in general works for that and specifically Tableau Pulse.

11:07So

11:07We'll get a look at that coming soon.

11:09Tableau Pulse time range grouping.

11:11This is kind of handy.

11:12This is a mobile update, but again, it's available both on Tableau Pulse, the main feature, and also just here on mobile.

11:19It's nice on mobile because you can essentially group by time range.

11:22This means that any metric that sort of updates weekly is grouped into the week bracket.

11:26Anything that updates monthly is grouped into the month bracket

11:28And then everything else is at the bottom.

11:30So it's a really nice sort of ability to have.

11:33Data source goals.

11:34This is nice.

11:34So basically being able to set goals using a measure from your data set.

11:39Now the thing is this needs a measure in your dataset.

11:42So

11:42It needs a budget or it needs a target measure for you to be able to sort of use.

11:47And additionally, if you're building a good data model, this actually allows you to use different dates and different measures

11:53off the same data source in order to be able to get this to work nicely against your metric.

11:58So this really sort of starts to bring forward the need to build good data models because if you're if you're just joining on these uh targets to

12:06uh a dataset you're probably gonna have issues to do with the accuracy of the budgets and the accuracy of the numbers um and aggregations won't work as you expect so really investigating the data model for this is a really good thing to do

12:17Okay.

12:18Enhance question and answers.

12:20So this is an interesting one.

12:22This is basically there's a there's an ask capability inside of Tableau Pulse and

12:27To be honest with you, what I'm seeing here is not what I was expecting to be.

12:30There is an enhanced AS capability that allows you to, you know, suggest different time periods, you know, uh uh suggest drill downs

12:37But what I'm seeing here is something slightly more enhanced.

12:40So I'm not going to pretend to speak to know how this works, but it also doesn't say that it's already available.

12:45So this might be an upcoming feature.

12:47This might be one of the few PAS features that isn't actually live, and you'll be able to see that soon.

12:51Okay.

12:52Connect to data using OAUT.

12:55So this is an authentication method essentially.

12:57It allows an enterprise company to use this form of authentication.

13:01to connect to a data source rather than the standard sort of single sign-on that you might have.

13:05So this is quite useful.

13:07A good example if you use Okta that

13:09That's that that's a no-auth authentication mechanism.

13:12And yeah, you can use Okta to log into both Tableau and your data source, which means you don't have to keep authenticating every single time for each thing.

13:19Which is kind of a nice thing to have.

13:21So that's good to look out for.

13:23Now this one I have no clue what it's about.

13:26Share nodes across all cloud sites.

13:28Okay, so

13:29This is basically talking about private network data access.

13:32And I'm not sure if this is talking about nodes in terms of things like Tableau Bridge, because Tableau Cloud doesn't give you access to infrastructure.

13:40So

13:40When we talk about sharing nodes across all cloud sites, this to me can only mean nodes used for things like Tableau Bridge being shared across multiple sites if that makes sense.

13:53So

13:54Essentially if you have the multi-cloud manager setup, you can essentially set up one network, one set of nodes.

14:02maybe three nodes that are responsible for doing Tableau Bridge, but you can actually share them across all the sites in your big Tableau Cloud instance.

14:09So I'm hoping that's what it is.

14:10A wild guess.

14:11If it's not let me know in the comments

14:15SAP HANA, bring your own identity provider and the JWT.

14:20So leverage External Identity Provider and JWT tokens for secure

14:25Centralize authentication to SAP HANA.

14:27So that's just a connector update.

14:29Very straightforward.

14:30External identity provider for Snowflake

14:32This is good.

14:33I think this is coming through for Tableau Server.

14:36This is why it's in here.

14:37I think it was available in the previous release already for Tableau Cloud

14:40So that's just something that's being passed through.

14:42Now VizQL Data Service, not enough people talk about this enough.

14:46So essentially what VisQL data service allows you to do is use a data source as your

14:52web query engine to basically query data for your website.

14:55So instead of having to build your data s data twice, if you've got an analytical solution that's already feeding off your database

15:03You can then use the VisQL data service API to query that data source to serve your website rather than having to go and build a separate data pipeline

15:12For your website to have that data represented in a web in a web format.

15:16So you you've got an API that allows you to do that.

15:18And there's going to be a bunch of other things.

15:19And the interesting thing here is Tableau Pulse itself

15:22is actually built using this API.

15:24So it's a really sort of good insight to see how Tableau have not only built an API for themselves but they've shared it with the community.

15:30in order for them to be able to build their own solution.

15:32So you've got an example here where they're essentially querying a data source which has information about bikes and it's pushing that through to a website, which is a pretty standard way to do it.

15:42And you can see they're calling column names and they're sort of filtering as well, which is kind of nice.

15:46It's a nice little sh sort of showcase.

15:48It's hard to see these things and get sort of a meaningful insight.

15:51I think what you have to wait to see is

15:53um how companies actually use this.

15:55We you really want some sort of showcase customers saying, yeah, we run our website using this and sort of showcasing that.

16:01And I think that will make more people sort of sort of dial in.

16:03Okay, logical table data source filter.

16:07So when you're using logical tables in the data model, what this allows you to do is do a data source filter.

16:12on a specific logical table level.

16:14And what that does is it has downstream impacts essentially, depending on how you've built your model.

16:19So you can say, essentially look

16:21Bring in um data, build out your data model.

16:24You then have a date field in this example and what you're going to do is you're gonna say the scope is on cells and you can even change that to sales and related tables and tell it to only bring in certain ranges.

16:35from that table.

16:36So that's really good because you can really kind of narrow in on uh how the model kind of scales over time.

16:44So

16:45The thing about the data model that's really hard to sort of visualize is how the changes you make in one logical table have an impact, maybe two or three tables down.

16:53You can see this particular model is kind of more complex

16:56And so yes, this is this is sort of a really important concept to understand because it can really massively improve the performance, especially when you get to maybe two or three levels down in your model and you're working with really large datasets as well

17:10Multi-fact relationship info centing.

17:12So multi-fact relationship infocenting is an enhancement to some info centering that was already taking place.

17:19And what it's what it's doing is essentially being able to tell you when

17:23It's giving you more intelligence on what is possible essentially.

17:27That's the way to think of infocenting.

17:28Think of it as some sort of highlighter or marker pen going around telling you what's possible and what's not.

17:34So if I just read this, easily navigate complex data models with tableaus, multi-fact, relationships.

17:38info sensing which proactively highlights how fields in your visualization relate across shared dimensions.

17:45This feature eliminates ambiguity by surfacing contextual guidance

17:48A powering analyst to explore data confidently without needing deep model expertise.

17:53So basically basically the problem this is trying to solve is that

17:56With a data model, it's hard to see what you're doing, essentially, and it's hard to know what's happening behind the scenes.

18:02And the only way you can really do it, the only way I've known how to do it is to troubleshoot by creating very specific like examples.

18:08So I might create a marked dataset or I might

18:11go and test a specific scenario and that scenario is typically something I might be able to validate by hand, literally on pen and paper, because I can see the number of rows, I can draw the connections, I can look at a summarized view of the table.

18:23I can even run some SQL on it and just say, okay, if I do this

18:26I do this, I do this, I should be getting this.

18:28Why am I not seeing that?

18:29And then working through the problem.

18:30InfoSenting is essentially trying to help more people do that without needing to do that kind of detailed work.

18:36So

18:36It's giving you that intelligence up front so you can make some really good assumptions about what you should expect to see.

18:42So this is really cool.

18:43I've not covered the data model anywhere near enough

18:46And honestly, it's because I'm scared.

18:48I'm scared of getting it wrong.

18:51And I've even heard Kirk Van Ray on the channel and we've talked about it.

18:54But

18:55My promise, my promise I've said to a couple of people is I am going to make what I'm going to call a masterclass on data modeling.

19:00In essence, I'm going to learn it as best to my ability as I can.

19:04And when I know that I fully, fully understand

19:08all the edge cases then I'll make a video but the thing is with this is when you when you start out to teach something that's when you really find out how much you know and how much you don't know and at the moment I'm still finding out how much I don't know so when I'm ready to do that I will do that.

19:22I've literally not

19:23touched even 24.

19:242 updates on data modeling because I just really want to get it right.

19:28Um I could do like a short video showing this is how it works but then

19:32The the problem with that is it's very easy for you to stumble into some behavior that you can't describe.

19:38You might then come to me in the comments and then ask, why is it doing this?

19:41And then I'll say, I don't know

19:43And then you kinda lose sort of confidence in the product.

19:45So something I promised myself last year is like I'm not gonna cover something if if if I can't become

19:52decent at understanding it and decent at explaining it.

19:56So that is why I haven't done any videos, but we'll get there, we'll get there

20:00Okay, data model accessibility.

20:02So this is essentially accessibility settings around the data modeling, being able to navigate the logical tables

20:07and relationships using accessibility.

20:10This is this is primarily for the web as well.

20:12I think the browser typically tends to support these pretty well.

20:15User attributes and native LWCs.

20:19So this is a funny one.

20:21You can tell someone from Salesforce wrote this because I bet you you're watching this video

20:26Like be honest if you know what LWC is go in the comments and say I know I know okay because

20:34I bet you no one knows what LWC is.

20:36I only reason I know this is because I just so happened to have read something yesterday that use this acronym and actually explain it.

20:43LWC means lightning web component.

20:47That's a Salesforce time.

20:48So user attributes and native light web.

20:50Lightning web component.

20:51So user attributes and native light web

20:53Components allows developers to apply data security in Tableau's embedded experience cloud portals without writing custom code by configuring user attributes directly in the admin area and selecting them in the native Lightning Web Component

21:06developers can streamline secure data access and focus on building better user experiences.

21:11So yeah if you've written this just just add lightning web component and people will get the mess

21:16Or I'm wrong and I've just told everyone the wrong thing.

21:19So let me know as well in the comments.

21:21Um customizable pulse web components.

21:24So this is interesting.

21:25The customizable pulse web component empowers developers to fully tailor the look and behavior of pulse.

21:30by applying custom colours, fonts, and filters through code with two-way communication support, developers can integrate pulse into their applications.

21:38So this is really just an embedding capability that allows you to bring pulse

21:42into your own applications with custom styling and formatting, essentially allowing you to re-scan pulse to your desires.

21:50Okay.

21:51Exchange connectors.

21:52So the Tableau Exchange continues to grow.

21:54I think this is another really great place to, you know, really become up to date on on what's going on with Tableau.

22:00You've got accelerators which are essentially templates.

22:03You've got extensions which essentially do things with your dashboard.

22:06You've got Viz extensions which are essentially new charts, and then you've got connectors which allow you to connect to data sources.

22:11We have new connectors from DBT, Databricks, and Mother Duck.

22:16These are all sort of

22:18very prominent companies I think I've heard of all of them and yeah they've all got connectors here that essentially well they've built the connectors to essentially talk to their platforms

22:26Tableau gives them an API to build data connectors and they've gone and done the work with their systems to have these things work.

22:33So basically there'll be some instructions to follow.

22:35You'll add the connectors and it should work like a native application essentially.

22:39So that's good.

22:41It's not quite the same as a native connector that Tableau have built for a particular database, but it's pretty close to uh to that experience.

22:48So go ahead and check those out.

22:51Google BigQuery enhancements, itar supports.

22:54I don't know what iTAR is.

22:55Google BigQuery Private Service and Connect

22:58Service Connect and Customer Manage Keys, ensure ITAR compliance with private service connect URIs.

23:07Um URIs.

23:08What is a URI?

23:10I feel like I I know what that is, but I've forgotten it.

23:14And custom managed encryption keys for Google BitQuery.

23:16Securely

23:17analyze sensitive data while maintaining control over encryption and network architecture.

23:23I I have no clue and I'm not gonna pretend

23:25So if you know what this is, let me know in the comments.

23:28This is the like what I what I should be doing is I should have Chat GPT on the right hand side explaining these things to me.

23:34But I figured you could you you you could do that yourself and also you could Google it.

23:38But the point of this video is just to go through and I don't want to make it too

23:41long bridge connectivity in tableau prep.

23:43Oh that's pretty new connect to on-prem data behind your VPN a firewall directly from Tableau Prep.

23:48Transform your data and schedule refreshes effortlessly.

23:51So that's an interesting one.

23:52I'd love to know how that works because

23:55The thing about Bridge is typically obviously its data sources are going to be already available in Tableau Cloud, but if we're talking about being able to do it from Tableau Prep, I wonder if that means you can set up new flat files in Tableau Prep and then have it.

24:10Have it create the bridge capability within Tableau Prep.

24:14It's one one thing I'll have to sort of go and play with a little bit more

24:17Right to Databricks inDab Tableau Prep.

24:19So this is just essentially the connector.

24:21I wonder if this uses the capability and the extensions because Tableau Prep is entirely kind of web only, so

24:26I say web only.

24:27It does have a d uh desktop download, but that desktop download is built off webcode.

24:32So when you see the connector for Databricks over in the exchange, you can generally sort of expect it to work in Tableau Desktop

24:39and on Tableau Tableau Prep Web Altering as well.

24:43So this is this is pretty cool.

24:45Input and output destination filters in Tableau Prep.

24:47Improve data governance by restricting Tableau Prep users to trust the data destinations

24:52Use REPH REST APIs to manage input and output permissions, ensuring security and preventing data leakage.

24:59So

24:59So this looks like the ability to use REST APIs to sort of control how a data source is read into um Tableau Prep and also how it's written out.

25:09So you can essentially stop someone writing out something that they shouldn't be able to write out.

25:13even if they try to.

25:14So that's a c that's kind of a cool setup.

25:16Keep authentication, I think this is already available now, but it's coming to Tableau Server.

25:22There have been a few bugs with this.

25:23It's worked successfully on Tableau web altering, but when you try and do it on desktop

25:27It's a little bit it's a little bit fussy, so I I'd I have not chased up on the bug that I've been following on that space.

25:33So we'll have a have a look at that.

25:35Now this is a new one, Tableau Agent Follow-up Suggestions.

25:39So Tableau Agent Follow-up Suggestion streamlines your analysis by offering contextual next steps

25:43after creating or modifying calculations.

25:45Tableau Agent cannot complete a task, it provides alternative suggestions to help you stay on track.

25:50So this is useful because before when Tableau Agent

25:53did its thing it it kind of just fell flat.

25:57It didn't do it and it didn't do anything else.

25:59Or it tried too hard to pretend it could, this kind of AI confidence thing that you sometimes get.

26:04So

26:05We really have to try this to understand how it works, but for now this looks pretty good.

26:09Tableau agent multilingual support.

26:12So this is nice.

26:13Um support enables users to interact with tablet agent in their native language.

26:17So what languages do we have here?

26:19French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese.

26:22I think this is nice because a lot of AI agents primarily mainline English.

26:27But the problem is English isn't everyone's language.

26:30And the other thing you can have is that you can you can have this sort of issue where

26:37If you don't bring in other languages, the way people ask questions, it can actually be culturally different.

26:45So the way questions are phrased, the way you might ask for information, the way you might query information

26:50Can actually sometimes meaningfully lead to sort of different outcomes if you don't understand language, especially when people are forced to you know, translate in their heads from

26:59the language they speak to another language they're not familiar with, primarily English in this example.

27:03So being able to let people use the tool in their native language means you get a better quality set of questions going into the system

27:11and it makes it more likely that it's actually going to do what you want it to do.

27:14So at least I hope so.

27:16So that's a that's a good touch.

27:18This is actually quite big.

27:19Tablet Agent on Desktop

27:21So basically the Tableau agent coming to 25.

27:241 on desktop.

27:25I assume it's going to need cloud connections.

27:28There have been some features in the past that have been

27:30um connected to cloud from desktop so this isn't not n something radically new essentially what would happen here is you have a data source the data source needs to be published already to tablet cloud

27:40And once that's the case, then you can use this AI capability to be able to work with that data source because it's essentially just doing the exact same query, but it's coming back to your desktop portal window rather than in the browser.

27:53This looks like it works good.

27:55I'll again I'll wait to test it.

27:5625.

27:571 is just around the corner and we'll we'll we'll see how it works.

28:00Let's see how many we've got there.

28:01We've got a handful left, so

28:02So let's try and sort of whistle through these.

28:04Tablet Agent for the Data Consumer.

28:06Tablet Agent for the Data Consumer helps dashboard viewers quickly understand insights through natural language summaries.

28:12Now viewers can ask Tableau Agent for a dashboard summary, making it easier to navigate, interpret, and quickly uncover insights.

28:18Now

28:19This I think is a big deal, but the big but is

28:28Ah I I really hesitate with Tableau Age.

28:32I've just done a video about AI and you know Tableau strategy.

28:35It's nearly an hour long.

28:37But I felt like if I was gonna be critical of some of the capabilities in Tableau, I needed to really show my working all the way through.

28:44And the thing I the the the challenge I have with Tableau Agent is

28:50When people ask questions and things go wrong, what happens next?

28:55Wh where is the burden?

28:57Who's

28:57Where where does the burden of work fall?

28:59And I think it's typically gonna fall on the creators or the analysts who build these solutions in the first place.

29:05And given how frequently Tableau Agent wasn't actually getting things right

29:12My concern was you know focused around this this worry that actually we we spent a lot of effort building trust with our end users and then we put a product in front of them

29:24That does the opposite.

29:25So I'd be really intrigued to see how this works, especially if it's just for consumers, because consumers aren't building dashboards, they're not building things.

29:33So when it's talking about insights

29:35What I'm hoping it's going to allow people to do is quickly ask a question, you know, about the data source and have it come back and maybe highlight information that's already on the chart.

29:45But if it's allowing you to sort of just wholesale ask questions about the data source that aren't visually there.

29:50And that will be interesting.

29:51Again, I don't know because I can't see, but that's gonna be a very, very interesting change.

29:55I might have to get myself a consumer account to kind of try that out

30:00Let's go to the next one.

30:01Tabloid Cloud, Indonesia, and Singapore region.

30:03So Tablet Cloud is obviously um based in AWS or Hyperforce now.

30:08pods essentially running different regions around the world just for performance and infrastructure reasons.

30:15Indonesia and Singapore are two new regions they've added to that list.

30:18So pretty pretty

30:19straightforward.

30:20Okay the next one is default date number formats and web authoring.

30:23So being able to set the default number format I think is quite good.

30:27I've actually seen this already by mistake.

30:29I was doing something else and I kind of just jumped into bumped into it.

30:32So this is a really nice touch.

30:34Being able to set defaults right from the beginning from the data pane, I think then means that your subsequent changes are going to be just much easier to do.

30:42And I think it will become more of a habit on web authoring to see if you're having to go through sheet by sheet to do it as well

30:47So that's that's pretty good.

30:49This is a community idea, so that's uh really nice to have.

30:52Activity log for security events, this makes a ton of sense.

30:56Activity log again is something that you get through advanced management

31:00being ha being able to have logs for the security events is is pretty good because you can then scrape them, process them, store them, pass them, do whatever you need to.

31:08Keyboard accessible interactivity, this is kind of nice.

31:10So being able to use your keyboard to navigate um some of the interactions is quite

31:15Quite nice.

31:16This is a nice one.

31:17Again, another community idea being able to have a project tree, essentially a folder tree, like you'd have in a folder.

31:22Now you have that more readily available inside of the Viz portal.

31:26Recycle bin.

31:27This is a good one.

31:28So up until now, up until this feature, if you deleted something, it was gone for good.

31:35Now there's a recycle bin.

31:36So this is actually quite

31:38quite useful for a lot of reasons.

31:40A lot of people sort of didn't know that.

31:42A lot of people assume that so they go delete something, oh yeah, we'll just get it back.

31:45No no no.

31:46If you had Tableau Server, some people were doing whole server backup resource just to get something that a team had spent a lot of time on and had been accidentally deleted.

31:55So this is a really good one to have.

31:57Okay, Tableau Prep Query Logging in Resource Monitoring.

32:01Makes a lot of sense.

32:01I think we've seen this already.

32:03Server to cloud migration SDK enhancements.

32:06So this is a software development kit for cloud migrations essentially that allows you to build software on top of Tableau's APIs

32:13And they've they've they've they've put in some enhancements essentially to make it more stable and run a little bit better.

32:19IDP generated token for SCIM man, there's a ton of acronyms in this that I don't fully understand

32:25So I'm not gonna pretend to know.

32:27So if you know what this is, let me know in the comments.

32:29Decouple email addresses from username.

32:31This is kinda good.

32:32Admins can enable tablet cloud users to update their email for notification purposes.

32:36Users may no longer have access to their stale email address inboxes.

32:40or have created with a username pointing to an unresolvable inbox.

32:44Yes, by decoupling the username and email address fields the users can keep updated to receive okay so basically

32:52You've set up tablet cloud.

32:53You've gone and done it with an email that you no longer have access to.

32:56For example, you've changed your surname or you've changed something

32:59You've changed your name, your email has changed.

33:01Essentially by decoupling this, you don't have to go re-sign up to Tableau Cloud just to get back into something you already have.

33:07You can just decouple the two, update your email, and now you're pretty much good to go.

33:11It keeps you your identity though, so

33:14your your sort of ID s remains the same but your email gets decoupled.

33:18Expanded extract refreshens.

33:21So this is this is kind of really good so um

33:24You can you can you can there's a there's a permission to enable extract refreshes.

33:29That's kind of nice.

33:30Gives admins a bit of control as to who's running what and where.

33:34Custom themes.

33:35Now this is interesting.

33:36So

33:37I think this is something that was announced at conference and this is the start of this capability rolling out.

33:44So basically having a star sheet, a theme.

33:46You can then apply straight to your work and then have it already assume a bunch of different characteristics.

33:53But I think this is going to launch slowly over time.

33:56So this this I think is why it's quite far down the list.

33:58We we need to see this before we can assume what it can do, but I think this is a really good start start.

34:03The tableviz extension, this is really popular, one of my most popular videos actually has been enhanced.

34:08I think they're taking on feedback and they're enhancing it, so it's getting better as well.

34:11It is just a web uh application.

34:13essentially running inside a tableau so they can enhance it so they've done a bunch of different enhancements here so um reorganized columns

34:21Formatting controls, banding for columns individually, broader range of keyboard navigation, selection of headers and columns, and an added array of hotkeys for navigation in tablet cloud.

34:32So just improving it.

34:34I think if they keep improving it and doing what everyone has.

34:37this is going to become a really killer killer chart to have as a viz extension.

34:41Activity log on Tableau Cloud Manager.

34:43So Tableau Cloud Manager is a new capability that

34:46tracks all your sites essentially that you have within your Tableau Cloud global world pool as it were.

34:53Activity log on Tableau Cloud.

34:55um kind of gives you that context so you can see here you have different sites and the activity logs are all coming in as well so that's that's really kind of nice.

35:04Accessibility settings customize wait hold on customize your alerts it says up here.

35:11You can personalize your tablet experience by deciding whether information or product alerts automatically dismiss or dismiss them but need more time to read.

35:20So basically how that dismissal behavior works is going to be customizable.

35:25Tablet Cloud Private Connect.

35:27Connect your AWS data to Tablet Cloud using the AWS private link for a secure dedicated private connection that avoids exposure to the public internet.

35:35Admins can set up and configure AWS private link to their AWS accounts where data is stored through Tableau Cloud Manager available in Tableau Cloud.

35:43Cool.

35:44Dutch language support.

35:46This is a new language, so this is actually pretty cool.

35:49I'm surprised it's taken this long.

35:50So that's uh Guts and Tabla Cloud release preview

35:54Ooh, so this is interesting.

35:56So get advanced access to functionality changes in Tableau Cloud.

35:59Understand how changes will impact your unique content usage and users before changes get applied to critical business content.

36:05Admins can select the release preview US West region when creating a site to get access to changes in functionality three plus weeks in advance of other cloud sites.

36:15That's really good.

36:16So there's a release preview site

36:19in US East Virginia.

36:22So when you when you select a location, but do you have to have Tableau Cloud Manager?

36:26I guess everyone has Tableau Cloud Manager.

36:28They just have a different number of sites depending on the license they pay.

36:32So I think Tableau

36:34Enterprise and then Tableau Plus have different numbers, so everyone in the Enterprise will probably get this, which is good.

36:39I think Tableau gets like three.

36:41So everyone gets this capability, which means you can create one site at least

36:45in this preview and you can try it and test it.

36:47So that's really good.

36:48Tablet Cloud Manager authentication enhancements again improving how you get into that.

36:53So that's pretty much everything.

36:55We've done a 40 minutes here.

36:56I think if I edit this down, it's gonna be like 35.

36:59We've zipped through it, but hopefully you've got all the timestamps below so you can see them.

37:03Okay, that's it.

37:03That's pretty much

37:04All the features here in 25.

37:061.

37:06Obviously, when this release comes out, we'll cover it.

37:09I think this will be our last release before conference, so then the next release will probably be just after conference, if that makes sense.

37:15So March

37:16This will come out, then we have April Conference, then we'll get uh May, June, July, June, July being the next possible release.

37:23So this is gonna be the last thing we get.

37:25It's pretty interesting because it it means that since conference everything we saw that was announced

37:30Well, it's going to be a good thing to see what's actually shipped between conferences, so we can actually talk a bit more about that down the road.

37:37Thanks for watching.

37:38I'm going to see you in the next one