# Tableau at Dreamforce and 24-3 updates to Tableau - S5 E6: Byte

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- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-10-29
- **Format:** Video · 60 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, AI & ML, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** dbt (metrics, models, semantic layer); Tableau (ai, cloud, extensions, maps, parameters, prep, pulse, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-at-dreamforce-and-24-3-updates-to-tableau---s5-e6-byte
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZYu-uCxGE

Ravi and I are back after the summer to unpack everything from Dreamforce and the 24.3 release. We talk through the shift from copilots to Agentforce, the new DBT and Microsoft Teams partnerships that confirm Tableau is becoming a platform, and dig deep into the new Table Viz Extension, Cloud Manager and spatial parameters.

## Key takeaways

- The whole industry, not just Salesforce, is pivoting from copilots to agents, but I argue the two can coexist - a copilot helps you write a calc while an agent monitors your metrics, and Tableau collapsed the naming too quickly.
- Introducing AI into analytics reopens the governance and validation problem Tableau's Data Management SKU was built to solve, and it works far better in Prep (focused on calculations) than in Desktop, where the scope is too broad.
- The DBT and Microsoft Teams partnerships show Tableau becoming a platform others plug into - exporting DBT models, metrics and lineage straight into Tableau and Pulse rather than rebuilding those capabilities.
- The Table Viz Extension brings Excel-like tables that are more performant and responsive than native chart types, are backwards compatible to 2024.2, and update themselves from the cloud independent of Tableau releases.
- Cloud Manager lets organisations consolidate licences across many Tableau Cloud instances - and the number of companies running 30-plus instances is far higher than most people would guess.

## Chapters

- 0:01 Back from summer and a new mic
- 5:14 Dreamforce and the agents pivot
- 15:01 The governance problem of AI in analytics
- 19:46 Minding the gap and the semantic layer
- 21:18 DBT partnership and Tableau as a platform
- 25:58 Microsoft Teams integration
- 30:43 24.3 and the Table Viz Extension
- 35:04 Why Viz extensions beat native charts
- 46:59 Cloud Manager and consolidating instances
- 51:09 Pulse, Hyperforce and spatial parameters

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-at-dreamforce-and-24-3-updates-to-tableau---s5-e6-byte

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