Tableau 2025.2 Feature Breakdown: New Updates and Enhancements

0:00Tableau 25.

0:022 is coming soon.

0:04I lasted one day since my last video and uh yeah the new release is coming out.

0:09I kind of knew this would happen and so in this video what we're gonna do is go through the entire release.

0:14feature by feature but at the very beginning I'm just going to do like a bit of an overview and talk a little bit about what we're seeing here.

0:19It is great to see some features from Tableau Conference that were showcased at Devs on stage as ever

0:24Let's get stuck in.

0:25Okay, so first and foremost, I I'm so happy to be back just doing feature reviews.

0:30Um this is kind of what I started the channel doing and I felt like in the last um at least few few months I've been mostly reacting to uh changes around Tableau Next and

0:39the tableau ecosystem very necessary but also not exactly the most exhilarating um content to be doing so finally happy to be back doing some features um 252 I will say one thing

0:51I I I I I'm one of the few people that pushes back against this dialogue that Salesforce has not been pushing through features for Tableau and I'll I'll stand

1:00uh and die on that hill because i do genuinely think since salesforce acquired tableau we have seen some of the biggest features in tableau desktop in the tableau ecosystem come through

1:11out of the ideas page where they've been stuck for many many years, some even decades, and they're actually available in the product.

1:18Now the throughput of that might be a different discussion, but

1:21For me at least, I I think some of the changes is pretty significant.

1:24Um, just because Salesforce's marketing sort of angle talks more about Tableau Next and the future of Tableau than it does Tableau Desktop.

1:31doesn't mean these features aren't coming through.

1:33If you check out the Tableau Release Navigator, that is a pretty good place to see all the history and the you know let's say provenance of some of the

1:41features over the over the last few few months so yeah go ahead and check that out um I get comments all the time in my comments say hey tableau's dying hey if it's dying why are you watching that's my response anyway

1:5225.

1:522 is coming soon.

1:53Uh let's take a look at this.

1:54The light the one of the things I like to do is just go here and immediately filter to desktop.

1:58I don't know why, but this is sort of my

2:00little pulse test to see okay what can I practically use on my laptop as soon as this drops.

2:05Instant vision show me not so much of a great feature if you're a pro user but quite handy if you are a

2:11uh a new to tableau or you're still sort of learning your way through tableau this will actually allow you to um build capabilities

2:19Um straight out of the game.

2:20So Show me did this for you already, but this one's actually going to choose dimensions and fields for you.

2:25So this is a nice feature.

2:26We'll come back to this in in a second.

2:28Dynamic color ranges.

2:29This was nice.

2:30We saw this at Devs on stage, so we can speak a bit to that.

2:33Dynamic spatial parameters.

2:34Parameters, this is quite nice.

2:36So this this I think is gonna uh enhance some of the capabilities that we've seen in the past before there was some limitations around this, so um I think this has been enhanced.

2:45You can filter data by map viewpoint, okay?

2:48So you can

2:49you can essentially uh par parse uh parse or par the m I can't talk today P A double s

2:57Pass.

2:58I need to go to to Yorkshire again.

3:00You can pass parameters into the viewport that will control the viewport.

3:04So you can essentially synchronize the viewport across two charts.

3:07That's quite nice.

3:08And that's just using parameters to basically control the zoom extent.

3:11So that's quite cool.

3:12Dynamic spatial parameters have kind of already been a thing.

3:14This is just I think extending that a little bit more.

3:17Tableau agent incremental improvements, a small improvement to Tableau Agent inside a desktop, Palantir Foundry Connector.

3:23Palantir is one of these companies that you might have heard of.

3:26If you haven't, um it's pretty interesting companies that quite a few podcasts I'll link to in the description that kind of talk really interestingly about what they do

3:33Um they're very much an analytics company.

3:35They very much build analytics solutions, but their customer base are like governments and you know very, very, very large multinational sort of customers, mostly governments.

3:45Um so what they do is pretty interesting.

3:46I think you should check them out.

3:47Uh new

3:48connectors and tablet exchange, this is pretty standard and data breaks connector updates as well.

3:52So these are the prominent updates for desktop.

3:55So really just these top three here, really just these two things, dynamic colour ranges and dynamic spatial parameters.

4:01To be fair, dynamic colour ranges colour is a

4:03Very very important part of Tableau.

4:05So getting that ability to have dynamic color ranges, have the context of the color change depending on what you select, that's going to be quite good.

4:13So let's remove that filter

4:16And in this release, I do believe that there is no Tableau Server update because we just had it

4:23in the previous update so 25.

4:251 was the server update and we're gonna get another one in 25.

4:293 so for those asking we will not get a server update for 25

4:33um two the reason this is in is I think it's because it's related to Tableau Cloud and but I don't know why it's been filtered to Tableau Server so we'll have to come back to that in a minute

4:43But sometimes connectors come through for the product, even though the product's been released because the connectors are backwards compatible.

4:50So if something comes out of the exchange, it tends to be backwards compatible, a couple of versions including

4:55uh old releases of server if they if they kind of met the cutoff date for the tableau extensions um library.

5:02So back to the top 252, what's in this release?

5:05Instant Viz ShowMe.

5:06So what exactly is this?

5:07So if you look at this, um this is very very subtle.

5:09If you use Show Me today, uh you can go in, uh you can choose two dimensions or to uh whatever you want to visualize and then you go to show me and then you click on the chart and it builds it for you

5:19This is more subtle.

5:20You can actually just go directly to the chart, hit the chart type, and it will choose the measures and dimensions for you.

5:25So it'll actually

5:26build the viz for you.

5:27So this is very much like using Chat GPT to say, here's my data, build me a pie chant or go and find the relevant um let's say pieces of data it's going to use and visualize that for you straight away.

5:37So this is quite nice.

5:38Really like it.

5:39Very simple.

5:40I think this can grow into something

5:42a little bit more powerful.

5:43I kind of think ShowMe is really where AI should have made its first appearance inside a tablet.

5:48I can't believe it wasn't.

5:49Show me should have been

5:51the literal feature show me how to build X show me how to do that show me is I think what Tableau is all about it's it's the

5:59fundamental brand we didn't need um sort of any agent we didn't do it need anything there's already a brand in the product that everyone knows how to use it's show me if you go and watch

6:09video tutorials from analysts who are doing videos on tableau who are not so new you will see crimes against analytics being performed using show me and so if anywhere you wanted to add ai this would be the place to keep

6:24keep those kinds of users on track, doing the right things, building the right charts, and giving people ideas that stick to sort of visual best practice, but at the same time

6:32really teaches them how to do stuff.

6:35So that's that's been a big big uh thing.

6:37I've actually made a video on how to use show me properly as well so I'll link to that in the comments.

6:41Be sure to check that out.

6:43Right

6:44Dynamic color ranges.

6:45This is kind of nice.

6:46So this is very nice.

6:46So what this is essentially ability where you when you select a color range, and the color range will change context depends on your selection.

6:53Where before

6:54You might have selected a few items and the colour range was very narrow between that selection and you didn't really see much of a change.

7:00So being able to change that context just allows you to focus in.

7:04on what matters with that selection.

7:05It's a really nice sort of user experience enhancement.

7:09It is a small thing, but it's a big thing at the same time.

7:11It's one of those things that most people won't realise unless they pay attention to it.

7:15But for a lot of analysts this will be really important for helping users

7:19better understand um what's going on and I think end users will see this feature more than anyone else.

7:24Okay let's go to

7:27Dynamic spatial parameters.

7:28So this is quite nice.

7:29We've had spatial parameters inside of Tableau for a while now, but they really only supported a very small context.

7:36What this is doing is extending that to support viewports in maps.

7:40So viewport in a map is essentially the square that shows you the map.

7:43And as you zoom in and zoom out, that viewport is basically maintaining a context of

7:48the level of zoom you're at and the location that's central to that view.

7:52So as you move your mass round, as you move the space bar and mass around to move that view around the map, and what's happening is that the map in itself is sort of moving behind that box

8:01those parameters, those those that metadata can now be shared to other maps on the same view, on the same dashboard using parameters.

8:10So essentially tableau storing those values

8:12in a parameter and then feeding them back to other charts.

8:15So it's just extending the capability of parameters.

8:18I first saw a prototype of this feature.

8:21five years ago.

8:22And this is this is crazy.

8:23And just I say this just to give you context of how long these things take to come through the product pipeline.

8:29Not because they're hard to do, but because they have to

8:32They have to navigate their way through the product pipeline.

8:35And I didn't see it as spatial parameters, I actually saw it as a separate project.

8:38I can't really talk about it because I was under NDA.

8:40But I can say to you is I've seen this before.

8:43And um the really interesting thing is that the the the the

8:46the the magic that sits behind this is actually quite powerful and I think this is if I was to sort of hype it up a bit this is this is sort of

8:55This is just the beginning for that kind of capability.

8:57I think this this this stun this kind of stuff is gonna go absolutely wild if they keep pushing with parameters and sets in in in direction.

9:05I think they're going with this capability.

9:07I think this will be really powerful.

9:08So um yeah, be sure to sort of stay

9:10Stay dull into that.

9:11Maybe in two years' time we'll see that kind of functionality, but um it's really nice to see.

9:15Right, Tableau Pulse Enhanced QA, metric filtering and comparisons.

9:20I will say this, Tableau Pulse um has been

9:23on a tear a bit like Tableau Pulse was a while back.

9:26Um Tableau Pulse, oh my god, I'm getting confused.

9:28Tableau Prep, sorry, was a while back.

9:32What's happening here is that they're just uh just cranking stuff out.

9:36Every time I log into Tableau or go into Tableau LinkedIn or something like that, there's a new Tableau Pulse feature.

9:41So

9:42What I will say is that it's pretty hard to uh pay attention to these and these releases are not when the features are actually announced.

9:50Some of these are already live and working today.

9:52So you'll see there's quite a few today.

9:53If I scroll down, you'll see that some of them will say, hey, this is already public.

9:57So if the first one is enhanced QA, metric filter and comparison.

10:00So this is basically the Q<unk>A capability

10:03getting enhanced capability for metric filtering and comparisons.

10:06We've then got multilingual support in the QA, so supporting some of the other locales, which is pretty important.

10:12Tableau is a global tool.

10:13So global analytics tool, a lot of our teams are not based in Western English speaking countries.

10:18So it's really important.

10:20And actually the biggest community for at least my YouTube channel is actually in India.

10:23So localization is super important because I think if you can build a product that can be used

10:29um i i in in parts of the world where actually a lot of this development is going on that's also going to improve the quality of what people make.

10:36So yeah, tablet boss, super important.

10:38Great to see the

10:39language capabilities pushing forward and the custom calendar and tableau pulse this is actually quite handy so with the tableau pulse datasets when you set a a context or a date

10:50And because it's essentially feeding off the data source, it's kind of hard to bring in what I would call custom fiscal years.

10:56So what they've done is they've added that calendar to Tableau Pulse.

11:00So your dataset can be your dataset

11:01And you can give that dataset context inside of Tableau Pulse.

11:06And that means any metric that anyone creates off the back of that

11:10when they start to talk in the language of the company about fiscal years and quarters and stuff, this can all be aligned nicely.

11:17So you can really dial this in and you can lock that

11:20sort of into context.

11:21So you can set a reference date, you can you can set all that kind of customization in here.

11:26So um this is going to be good.

11:28The custom kind of definitions would be interesting to see how that's actually supported if you just give it a CSV with all the

11:34A relevant context in a specific format, I have not played with that, but I think this is maybe out already as well.

11:40So go ahead and check that out

11:42Um Tableau Agent incremental improvements, so um incremental improvements very much what this is, so uh enhanced to better meet user needs and optimize the experience across the analytics journey with improvements areas like suggested questions and follow-up suggestions.

11:56So this to me just sounds like a model upgrade essentially.

11:59Um all of these features are foundational features in in models and as you improve the quality of the model with responses and feedback, you kind of

12:08you kind of push that update straight out.

12:10So you'll get a lot of what are called incremental improvements.

12:13If you're following companies like OpenAI, they typically name these as new models and

12:18Uh what you see is incremental improvements, but actually in some in some areas it's massively better.

12:22The incremental improvement is all that was needed to make a big impact, so um again pretty nice.

12:27Uh Tableau Pulse

12:29um certify metric definition.

12:31So this is quite nice.

12:32The ability to certify a metric definition to say hey not only is this coming from a certified data source but it's also

12:38a certified metric has been built and set up in the correct way that we as a company are going to certify so people can follow metrics that are certified and they can know and trust

12:47um these metrics and they they can sort of validate that uh this is all going on.

12:51What I'd love uh behind this is a a a sort of test and compare feature so

12:56Not only do you do certification, what you really want is the testing capability behind that to enable the certification.

13:02So maybe being able to build sort of functional tests or

13:05a test criteria in the background so the certification can automatically be applied and once it's there you can have these tests running in the background and if any one of them fails and the certification just you know goes maybe orange

13:18and says hey look this has failed the last certification test please stand by the analytics team checks it they'll they'll they'll they'll say uh okay we've improved it we fixed the bug

13:28They'll put a note of exactly what was broken and you'll understand that the last time you saw the metric there might have been an issue because something was broken and you know why.

13:35I think being transparent about issues really builds trust.

13:39So

13:39really petting the testing capability along time alongside things like certification I think is super important.

13:45Tablet pulse configure decimal places.

13:47This is quite nice.

13:48So you can basically go and set up your decimal places here.

13:51I will do a video on these because these are these are very simple.

13:54um features I maybe do these over the next few days.

13:56I'll just do like a tableau pulse like what's happened in the last few months sort of update and you can sort of go ahead go ahead and check that out.

14:02So decimal place is pretty standard.

14:04I don't think I need to explain that to you

14:06Tableau Pulse Custom Daily Comparisons.

14:08This is kind of nice.

14:13Let me double check I understand this.

14:14So tailoring the comparison to a date rather than the standard time ranges allows users to accurately compare changes to their data.

14:20Yeah, so this is kind of nice.

14:21So you can you can give it a specific date um for the comparison, which is kind of nice.

14:26Um for some metrics this makes a ton of sense because

14:30You might be comparing, let's say, two events um that have happened, but they've not happened in any sort of um, you know, a definable period like

14:39last year or last week or last whatever, you might need to be comparing like uh to to a timeline rather than to a specific sort of

14:47uh sort of time partition as it were.

14:49So this is this is kind of nice.

14:51Tableau pulse mute metrics from insight summary.

14:53So this is basically the the idea of

14:55saying hey, I don't want to see this in my insight summary.

14:58Again, very simple.

14:59They're really just adding what I would say quality of life improvements.

15:02My favorite term when I do these updates.

15:04Um quality of life improvements really make this a a a proper sort of feature, if that makes sense there.

15:10I kinda wish Tableau came out with these out of the gate because they know they need all these things, but whatever it is, time doesn't allow for it.

15:16So um yeah, we get a trickle of these.

15:18So Tableau Pulse Mobile.

15:21filtering so this is basically the ability to filter in mobile.

15:24I've not done much in the mobile app, but we should definitely do that.

15:26I keep making lists of things I should be doing.

15:29Um but yeah, I'll come back to that some other point.

15:31So those are all the Tableau Pass update.

15:33I don't really know why Tableau Agent was in that sort of list.

15:36Um I think this is maybe the Tableau AI section if that makes sense.

15:39So that's that's a ton of features, all very small again.

15:43If you're using Tableau Pulse, some of these features just come as standard.

15:47Some of them do need the Tableau Plus license.

15:50So be sure to make sure you get clarity on that, at least in the documentation.

15:54Because I think some things used to be in the paid version and now are part.

15:58of the free version so be sure to check that out okay next we have trusted viz extension on public safely experiment with partner build visualizations to bolster

16:08um your storytelling.

16:09So Viz Extensions branded as Trusted in Tableau Exchange will be available for use in Tableau Public.

16:15So anything that's in the X Viz Extension

16:19library that is trusted from a partner will make its way to Tableau Public.

16:23I think this is a precursor to a change that's going to happen on Tableau Public that will let you

16:28use the stuff in Tableau Public itself.

16:31So that's pretty that's pretty nice.

16:33Profile organization manual categorization.

16:36So this is ability to customize your profile in Tableau Public.

16:40Essentially

16:41um you know create your own uh themes this is glyphos this is so important what what uh what is happening here is um

16:49I think uh I'll let me say two things about Tableau Public.

16:51Number one, Tableau Public is an incredibly important part of Tableau.

16:54If you look at some of the creativity and everything that goes on, it's super important.

16:59What you have to understand though is that

17:01Tableau Public is a free product and Salesforce acquired Tableau.

17:06So everything that is going on to this day, in my opinion, has been stuff that people have been asking for.

17:14but it's also in service of making it a platform upon which Salesforce can build something on.

17:20So if I was to make a list of all the fundamental features that a

17:24social platform needed in order to make you invest time and energy into building your profile, creating content for it and setting things up.

17:33Uh all of these profile customizations would be a necessary part of that.

17:37You can't build a platform on top of that, a monetizable or

17:41or sort of ecosystem or marketplace on top of that without it.

17:44So if you look at social platforms like Facebook or YouTube, this is the number one thing they did.

17:48They enabled you to build and customize your profile, set yourself up, and after you threw time and energy investing into your profile

17:55They then build the model, the pricing model, and uh sort of monetize monetizable model around it.

18:01So they'll bring things like

18:03um letting you sell your own color palette.

18:06So they've got an example here.

18:07Letting you theme your content into different categories.

18:10They're letting you organize and speak to the things that you're good at.

18:13So you can then turn that into an asset in the future.

18:17So I think this is super important, but I just want to be sort of completely open in it with everyone to say, hey, look.

18:23This is a good change, but what will come after this is the monetization on top.

18:27Absolutely.

18:27It's almost guaranteed.

18:28We've seen it in Tableau Next to talk about the marketplace a lot.

18:31That is definitely something they're going to do.

18:33So um there is that.

18:34Now what I will say though

18:36And I will say this very boldly to anyone from Tableau watching.

18:39I think the value of Tableau Public is bigger than anyone realizes.

18:43To me, the number one value is

18:46The value in the telemetry of Tableau Public.

18:49What people do in Tableau Public greatly speaks to

18:54The ways in which we push the boundaries of the product more so than in desktop, because in desktop you get a very business-centric user

19:01Who's generally using standard features generally speaking?

19:04In Tableau Public you get what I would call the boundary of what's possible

19:09And so you should be looking to that to see what is really clunky that everyone's doing or having to do to get sort of this really high polish design and how can we make that experience better.

19:18The telemetry around that is really important.

19:21And when a new feature comes out, let's say it's sets or parameters or anything like that, Tableau Public Telemetry to me is where you go to find out

19:29what the uptake is on that feature and how well it's being used and what's being built around it.

19:33What are the other features being used in association with that feature?

19:36To me these are all blindingly obvious sort of bits of value.

19:39And so if that was the only bit of value from Tableau Public and I was internal at Tableau, that's what I would actually lean on a ton more.

19:46And um I wouldn't worry so much about monetizing it because um you will lose a lot of that context.

19:50And let me be clear, like

19:52People are not good at articulating features they need, but with the telemetry you'll see a lot of patterns and uses from a whole body of people, including those who aren't vocal in the community, about the way they use the product.

20:05So

20:05That's my little sort of eulogy or whatever for Tableau Public before.

20:09It changes massively.

20:10But anyway.

20:11Um Content Exploration Hub Recommender Tab.

20:14Oh this isn't new, I don't know what this is.

20:16So this is again Tableau Public, okay

20:18A one-stop shop of relevant and inspirational content, centralized place for users to discover content, access learning resources, and connect with the data fam

20:28Interesting.

20:29Okay, so what am I missing here?

20:31So I think it's this thing on the right hand side.

20:34So this um

20:35This little hub.

20:36I think it's basically like an engine that's surfacing content.

20:39Again, another part of the like, you know, hey, we're gonna build an ecosystem here.

20:42We need to build all the social features on top of it.

20:44So that's um

20:46uh pretty pretty important um actually a ton of tableau public changes here so author empowerment quick wins build connections and grow your community like never before with improved visibility authors can grow their following and see who's interacted with the visualization

20:59And the author preview card makes it easy to navigate and discover author profiles.

21:03So this is uh kind of cool.

21:04So you can follow and view profile.

21:06Hey, just just more social elements.

21:08I'm telling you, it's coming, it's coming.

21:10Um

21:11Multiple external IDPs for skim on a site.

21:15Oh god.

21:16Now I remember I did this and m Matt if you're watching uh yeah I'm gonna get this wrong again

21:23I remember you dropped something in the comments basically highlighting that I didn't I didn't I didn't understand this and truthfully I still don't understand it so

21:30I'm going to read this description, but go easy on me if I don't get it right.

21:34Okay, so multiple external IDPs.

21:36I know what that is, identity providers for SCIM.

21:40on a site.

21:42Okay, so let me let me try and see if we can um get this right.

21:47So cross-domain identity management is essentially

21:50um what S C I M means.

21:52So system for cross domain identity management, Skim.

21:56I think it's good that the tablet put this here.

21:58I don't know why they don't put it in the marketing.

21:59It's in the product but it's not in the marketing.

22:01Nowhere in the marketing does it tell you what Skim is and then it it actually has in the product

22:05So maybe it should they should flip that around.

22:07Tell you in the marketing and don't bother repeating in the product.

22:10But anyway, um provisions, users, and groups to Tableau using your identity provider.

22:15So your identity provider

22:17um can be one of many things.

22:19Um you can see a list here, so for example, Okta is a pretty common one.

22:23Um you do get others uh that are sort of

22:26uh pretty pretty prevalent.

22:28But I think Okta tends to be uh truthfully that's the only one that I've ever come across.

22:32Um I think some of the other identity providers you get

22:35uh come from companies like Microsoft.

22:37Not Active Directory specifically, but I think there is an identity provider sort of mechanism within that

22:43AWS will have its own as well.

22:44So those are the sort of top level sort of identity provider setups that you get.

22:51In AWS it's I think goes through AIM, which is the

22:54identity something management um but anyway um tableau now has multiple IDP support for authentication support

23:02Supporting user and group provisioning scenarios through standards compliant uh SIM2 features, admins can enable up to 20 IDPs for Skim on a site to establish a connection between their IDP

23:13and Tableau Cloud Site.

23:15So this is also interesting because I think it allows you to have different ways of authenticating on a site.

23:20So for those who have Okta they can go and through that.

23:23For those who have

23:24uh external providers for example here they have an internal employees and partners um so um you can have different people go through different identity providing systems and that also is good for security because you can have your external partners go through something else

23:39and that is more compliant for bring your own device like uh setups and you can have employees go through um sort of uh their device and have to use um company hardware and systems in order to work in the VPN and all that.

23:51So that's all kind of um

23:53baked into that.

23:53So this is really just more support for an enterprise setup, especially on Tableau Cloud, which is where this feature is a big deal.

23:59On Tableau Server, I this this is less important because you would typically have everyone under the same

24:04roof anyway and you you you would provision sort of external providers differently on Tableau server compared to something like Tableau Cloud.

24:12Okay.

24:12Um

24:13Oh my mouse has stopped working.

24:15Tableau Exchange and Tableau Cloud.

24:17Okay, so um the following Tableau Exchange connectors are now compatible, Tableau Bridge, Mother Duck, DuckDB, DBT Semantic Layer and Starrock.

24:26So some of these were already compatible with Tableau Server.

24:28They're bringing those to Tableau Cloud.

24:31Nice and simple.

24:32Palantir Foundry Connector, very simple Palantir Foundry Connector to connect to Palantir Foundry.

24:38I mentioned go check out Palantir.

24:40I'll link to the blog post where they talk about what they do.

24:43It's super interesting, but also super secretive.

24:45New connectors and tablet exchange, we touched on this already.

24:49CD Data Virtuality, MongoDB SQL Interface, Mother Duck, DuckDB, and Starrox connectors are now available.

24:57Single use refresh seconds.

24:58So these are these are kind of nice.

25:00So Tableau now handles

25:01single use refreshers tokens to optimize users data connectivity experience for box.

25:06com and database connectors.

25:07Once you have IWL's credentials for a data source, Tableau would automatically handle refresh

25:12uh token rotation customers and partners can also enable this capability in their connectors developed using the tableau connector sdk so this is a broad

25:21capability around um connectors.

25:25It essentially allows for um the handling of authentication and access to a data source uh in one place but it's built through the data connector and this is I think

25:36partly to enable what I would call the cloud-based data sources to not have to keep doing authentication behind the scenes to make sure you can see what you're seeing.

25:45But yeah, um I think

25:47I think this is one of those things where I think this enables a bunch of other things that we're seeing.

25:51So I wouldn't be surprised if some of the DBT and the Barks.

25:55com and the Databricks connectors have been enabled by this as well

26:00Ping Federate support with SCIM.

26:03Okay.

26:03Ping Federate.

26:04This just gets more dry and more dry as I scroll down.

26:08Please help me.

26:08How do you how do you all lines have I got okay?

26:10Come on, we will get there.

26:12In addition to Microsoft Enter ID, Octa and Wall.

26:15One login admins can now configure SIM with the identity provider IDP ping Federate and get guidance and support from your IDP and Tableau to get the configuration working.

26:24So basically

26:25Uh Ping Fedre is an IDP identity provider and uh S S C I M is now supported with Ping Fedre.

26:33So this is almost like

26:35uh Skim was necessary to enable things like Pink Federate and Doctor and all those likes to sort of all work together.

26:40So that's good.

26:42Tablet Cloud Manager.

26:43You can now merge tenants.

26:44The merge tenant feature allows you to combine multiple tablet cloud manager tenants under one

26:49TCM tenants so that you can enjoy the full benefits of TCM.

26:52So basically, if you had multiple Tableau Cloud sites before Tableau Cloud Manager

26:59This allows you to merge the tenancy of those Tableau Cloud sites.

27:03I think that's basically how I would have actually written this.

27:05This is not a man, some of these are written so dry.

27:09So the merge tenant feature allows you to combine multiple Tableau Cloud Manager tenants.

27:13No, just call it site under one TCM tablet cloud manager tenant.

27:18Like, yeah, I would have written this entirely differently.

27:22Sorry to overwrite this, but yeah.

27:24Combine multiple Tableau Cloud Manager sites under one Tableau Cloud Manager tenant.

27:29That to me makes more sense.

27:31So that you can enjoy the full benefits of Tableau Cloud Manager.

27:34Also available to non-multi-site SKU customers with a business need such as acquisitions or sandboxes.

27:40Oh, this is nice to combine separate tablet cloud managers.

27:43So this is actually quite cool.

27:43I've been in scenarios where two companies have a merger, they both have tablet cloud

27:47and how they're stuck with their tablet card instances because there's no real way to move the stuff across and the sort of migration tools aren't great.

27:54So this would allow them to continue functioning as almost as separate orgs

27:58but bring the tenancy under one roof and I think there'd be a nice way for licenses to to sort of work.

28:03So this this again sounds like an enterprise feature of the Tableau definitely

28:06definitely needed themselves and now they have something.

28:09So there's a note here.

28:10Multi-site SKU customers with several TCM tenants can contact their account team to initiate the process of moving off the multi-site SKU

28:17and merging their tenants.

28:18So basically talk to licensing and we'll figure out how to manage your licensing under one roof.

28:22Okay during conference we saw this feature at Devs on Stage, a tablet app for Google Workspace, essentially a tool that allows you to bring in Google Workspace uh

28:31um bringing sorry tableau assets into the Google workspace.

28:34Now what we saw was in Excel, but what this is showing us is something very interesting which is a Tableau pulse chart inside of Google Docs.

28:42How is this not coming out first for Microsoft Office?

28:45Like come on.

28:46We need a tablet app for Microsoft Office.

28:49That surely has to be next.

28:50So

28:50Reduce the necessary process with new version of Tableau out for Google Workspace and provides a native Tableau interface within Google Docs and Google Slides so that one click you can embed visas or pulse metrics and refresh the content when you need it.

29:02You know what?

29:03I don't know if anyone remembers, but one of the biggest sponsors at Tableau Conference was Rolstack.

29:08And I found it really interesting that Rolstack

29:11were there, their whole thing is that they allow you to put tableau um stuff into into PowerPoints and all of that stuff.

29:18Um

29:18And then Tableau come out with this, which to me just Sherlocks that, at least for the Google Workspace uh customer.

29:24So yeah, I've always found that this stuff interesting.

29:28Or maybe these are completely different and they do different things.

29:30The one thing I'd love to understand is once you insert the the graphic, does it stay up to date?

29:35So does the plug-in actually keep everything up to date?

29:37Or is it a static edition?

29:39So it's a one-time edition that's in your document and then you p you send it off and that's it.

29:43Um I'd love it if you had the option to update all of these assets as you brought them in.

29:47So if they're just not just sort of static, um maybe even in a deck it would make Google um

29:52Slides are really good place to do your presentations because it would naturally just have all the content you need and the visualization in one space.

29:59Okay, tablet cloud and Switzerland Switzerland region.

30:02This is uh just basically adding um a Switzerland region.

30:05This is important for tablet cloud customers who

30:07who maybe have very strict restrictions around banking and finance based in Switzerland.

30:12This is the example I know, a big company uh like UBS, um those kinds of customers who

30:18have to base their banking in Switzerland for various reasons.

30:21This is kind of nice to be able to have your data and your server running in Switzerland.

30:24So you can say nothing leave Switzerland and meet a bunch of compliance benefits.

30:29So yeah.

30:30Private Connect, additional connectors.

30:32So

30:33I have not done enough on Private Connect.

30:34I just there's a there's a whole world of stuff I think I need to sort of dive into which is still quite new to me.

30:39Private Connect is new as of 25.

30:411 I believe.

30:42Um and I've not done enough to really understand uh how it works.

30:45But my uh gut instinct is but basically Private Connect is a custom way of connecting to specific data sources inside of AWS.

30:53And instead of using Tableau Bridge, what you're doing is you're creating a little pod

30:57type inside of the AWS infrastructure to go directly to those databases.

31:02Hence the term private connect.

31:03You are connecting to these data sources but you're doing it through a

31:07a very secure let's say telephone line between Tableau Cloud and your AWS Sur credentials.

31:13That's why it uses a bunch of AWS capability

31:16like uh AWS private link.

31:18So yeah it is specifically for hosted databases in AWS and the private link give you gives you that ability to be able to um sort of push forward.

31:26So yeah uh that's quite cool

31:28Tablet cloud PCI compliance secure payment card industry data so customers within financial services sector can now leverage Salesforce Hyperforce controls and implement additional safeguards within your tablet cloud environment

31:41to meet PCI4 requirements in analyze PCI protected data.

31:44Um I'd love to know what the hyperforce controls is.

31:47This this again feels like it's been written by someone who just assumes everyone

31:51knows what A what hyperforce is and B understands what the hyperforce controls are.

31:56I'll have to Google that and when maybe I do the video we'll learn more a bit about that.

32:00So that's quite nice.

32:02Session recovery improvements so

32:04So this is basically when you're using uh uh a view and and the session is basically the time from which you start using that view as the time you leave.

32:12So you might leave the tab open for a long time, use it every sort of two to three minutes, then leave it running for a while.

32:18And if you leave it running for long enough, the session ends.

32:20And when you come back to the tab, the session starts again.

32:22So session is strictly speaking just you actually interacting with the viz and using it for a bit

32:27period of time.

32:28So this one is essentially an enhancement to that I believe.

32:31So Tableau extended offline visualization interactivity for users during session recovery.

32:36Even for large visas, minimize downtime especially in times

32:39sensitive scenarios like presentations and avoid getting error banners.

32:42So basically what this is saying is that if you leave a viz unused for a while because you're presenting or doing something

32:48You used to get this thing where you go to use the viz and then it refreshes the whole thing and you've lost all the sort of setups that you've got and you have to go back and set it up again.

32:56Basically this is going to catch that more gracefully

32:58and it will reconnect and try and persist the session that you you are having rather than trying to to sort of reset everything.

33:05The button will inform you of the reconnect status while interactions requiring server commands will be disabled

33:11until the connection is restored.

33:12So it will restore the connection rather than resetting the V, which is kind of nice.

33:17Resource monitoring tool, user management automation.

33:19So Tableau created a new set of commands to allow customers to leverage their implementations in Active Directory or L.

33:25LDAP services to provision, authorize, and decommission users in resource monitoring tool.

33:29So basically resource monitoring tool, resource monitoring tool getting some user management features.

33:34Pretty pretty nice

33:35Admin insights expanded availability.

33:38So access admin insights for sites created under the developer tableau for teaching or partner programs.

33:45That's actually quite important because

33:47In the developer program, it's actually quite hard to get these and see them and sort of play around with them.

33:52So um it's great that they have this uh being sort of extended out so you can actually A understand what they do but B also use them.

34:00Um

34:01Uh and it's it's kind of a a really nice feature because they don't have to do that.

34:05The developer stuff is kind of given away for free, so um that's that's interesting.

34:10The admin insights, data sources, and workbooks will automatically be

34:13D be deployed to these additional site types, no need to contact Tableau, so they'll just do it.

34:18There's no need to message.

34:19You had to previously, I think, send a request to Tableau to enable these

34:23I think now it's just done so you don't have to.

34:25Removing a step.

34:27Schedule details.

34:28So admins can see dashboard subscription schedules and determine which should be moved to another time of day to alleviate congestion

34:35The additional fields describing the pertinent schedule information for each subscription are available in the subscriptions data source in Admin Insights

34:43allowing admins to analyze it and take actions.

34:46So that's kind of nice.

34:47So it's a new data source really that talks to subscriptions.

34:50So that's kind of cool.

34:52Okay, performance insights dashboards, again another bit of uh performance uh perspective.

34:58So analyze dashboard performance with new built-in report that quickly provides

35:02Dashboard insights in a user-friendly tablet cloud interface.

35:05Admins can now filter by specific workbooks and analyze which visualizations impact load times to identify and troubleshoot slow performing dashboards.

35:12Okay.

35:15Additional activity log events.

35:17So activity log is an advanced management capability.

35:21You need Enterprise or Tableau Plus, the license to

35:26Get activity log as part of that.

35:28Um there's additional events that it's now logging.

35:30So improve resource management and monitoring and maintain security compliance certifications with additional event types

35:36available to support the private connect, recycle bin, and prep endpoint control features.

35:41So basically they're adding activity logs around some of the new the new stuff that's been deployed.

35:46Tab GPT configuration changes as well.

35:49Tab GPT.

35:52What is Tab GPT?

35:54Did I completely miss something?

35:57Tab GPT

36:03I have no idea what that is.

36:05Um admins can ingest these logs into S-I-E-M

36:09Another acronym that no one no one knows what it is.

36:13Um so I've no idea what that is.

36:16Um

36:17SIEM monitoring tools.

36:19That must be like a capability, like an industry standard for monitoring this kind of stuff.

36:23Or import them to analytical data warehouses for reporting.

36:26So basically

36:28I think this is like a monitoring tool that you you put on top of your entire sort of infrastructure and it sucks up all these logs and it gives you some sort of context.

36:37But I have no clue what SIEM means

36:39More activity, love goodness, um, view interactions, so you can get all of this wonderful data about a view.

36:46Um during the tableau

36:48devs on stage they showed us a dashboard based off this data uh but they didn't say the dashboard was a feature what they said is that the data's the feature so here's the data

36:56you're gonna have to pass this data into a useful format to be able to create it.

37:00But I think this is kind of good for Activity Log View.

37:02Just being able to say, hey, look, this specific user went in, uh they looked at a view, this is how long they were in that view

37:08And here is here's here's how long the session was, here's the workbook name.

37:13This is really super powerful.

37:14And you can dump all of these in a in a bucket and then ingest that into some sort of log drinking process and um away you go

37:22Embedded React component for development teams looking to embed Tableau in their custom React applications, the Node Package Manager NPM package is now available for you to install and connect to your Tableau

37:32cloud instances.

37:33Cool.

37:33So React is a specific capability was built by Facebook.

37:37As part of that, you typically devo devo deploy these things called node node packages.

37:43So um

37:44A node package is actually not related to React, but it's the two typically come in hand because you need a node package to set up uh the specific

37:54let's say um environment correctly and um the React component then uses whatever's been set up through this package um this a deployment sort of technology um in order to work

38:07Databricks connector updates.

38:08So oh this is nice.

38:10They've blurred out the stuff that doesn't matter and they've highlighted exactly what's near.

38:14So simplified connectivity, very nice, and easy discoverability.

38:18Cool.

38:18So basically

38:20Better connector.

38:21Nice and simple.

38:23Flow ownership changes.

38:24So in Tableau Prep, um with flow ownership changes admins or current owners can pass controls to other others with just a couple of clicks, avoiding the hassle of waiting for flow runs to finish.

38:34Oh, this is cool.

38:35Plus you can cancel in-progress runs whenever needed, making flow management more flexible and stress-free.

38:40That is nice.

38:41Tableau Next and Slack integration.

38:43So this is basically the two of them just sort of moving hand in hand.

38:48Uh we need to do something separate for Tableau Next and Tableau Semantics, so I won't go too much into detail here, but you've we've seen lots of demos with Tableau Next and Slack, and this is pretty much that.

38:58Tableau Next Data Pro

39:00Um it's very interesting they've they've bundled this in right at the end.

39:04They're like, we know you don't care, so we'll just put them at the bottom.

39:07Um so Tableau Semantics is very cool.

39:09I've actually had access to Tableau um next for a little bit now.

39:12I have not done a video on it because

39:14kind of under NDA and I need to kind of wait for the right time to be able to talk about it.

39:18But um yeah I think it's pretty interesting and pretty cool.

39:21Tableau concierge um this is again something uh that's available inside of Tableau Next so

39:26Again, we'll talk about this as and when that experience is broadly available and um we can more easily access it and talk about it.

39:33You can see the screenshots here from the beta.

39:35Not everyone has access to the beta, but absolutely soon that's something that we'll be uh talking about a lot of.

39:41So how long have we been going here?

39:43Forty minutes.

39:44I tried to do my best.

39:46I tried to race through it, I tried to give as much context as I possibly can, but that is twenty.

39:50252.

39:52How do I feel about this update?

39:53I think this is a 6 out of 10 update.

39:56Some big features, really good features, but you know, a lot of dry features as well

40:01generally a lot of sort of enterprise um management features which your admins are gonna love but the problem with them is they're very

40:09Very specific.

40:10If you weren't asking for them, a lot of them might not be useful to you.

40:13So if I look through this list, if I just go through this from a product by product perspective, let's say I'm a tablet prep user, I look at it and I'm like, oof, that's pretty light, just mostly connectors and no real feature updates, right?

40:24If I'm desktop and I'm a big spatial fan, great, I can actually do a lot with spatial parameters.

40:28But if I'm not doing spatial analytics in my company, um all I have is really dynamic color ranges and instant vision show me.

40:35So on one hand, I love that these features are coming through.

40:38On the other, that note I made about throughput, pretty important.

40:41So you can see that throughput isn't what we're used to.

40:44If you go back in the day, um I I remember using like scrolling down and having like four or five four four or five banks of desktop features and like the the the the the top six

40:53We're all bangers if that makes sense.

40:55So I don't want to say those are the good old days because things are definitely changing, but nonetheless I'm I do kind of miss that kind of um density of capability.

41:03So that's pretty much it.

41:04That's done.

41:04Twenty five two.

41:05That's that's me done.

41:06I'm gonna do is minimal editing on this.

41:08really apologize for that but I just have to be sort of pragmatic.

41:12Um I'm trying to do a bit of a channel reset of you know I'm I'm trying to approach all this stuff new but at the same time the the the easiest way to sort of get through some of this stuff is just to do it the way I've always been doing it.

41:21So please bear with me.

41:22You might be seeing

41:23shorts uh coming from this video so if you follow this video and you've watched it in full don't be put off by the shorts um you can watch them they're little short snippets you can share with people as well

41:32So let me know what you think of them.

41:33I think I'd be intrigued to see what you think of that.

41:36So yeah, thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.