0:00Okay, we're back.
0:01We're gonna cover what's new in Tableau Cloud in 26.
0:041.
0:05In my previous video we covered Tableau desktop, so I want to go through Tableau Cloud.
0:09If you're wondering what about Tableau Server, there is no Tableau Server release for this specific version.
0:16So Tableau Server changed to have updates every other release.
0:20So the next update, in fact the only update in 2026
0:23will be 2026.
0:252.
0:26The next one after that will be 27.
0:291 and in 27 you'll get two updates 27.
0:321 and 27.
0:333
0:34So that uh alternating cadence is happening with Tableau Server and everything in this release 26.
0:401 will come in 26.
0:422.
0:43server as well as everything in 26.
0:452 for Tableau Cloud.
0:46It's super confusing.
0:48But anyway, let's go back to Tableau Cloud.
0:50Okay, we've covered some of these already in the Tableau Desktop component.
0:53The reason they appear here is because
0:56They come up in the web ordering capability.
0:58So rounded corners are available in web ordering, that's why you see them here.
1:02Accessible visualization authoring.
1:04This is actually going to be specific to Tableau Cloud because a lot of this accessibility settings
1:08are available through the web authoring experience.
1:11So here, let's take a look at this.
1:13Increasing accessibility to empower everyone to become creators of data visualizations within Web Authoring, navigate to a pill and use your keyboard and assistive technology.
1:23To select the context menu option to drop that pill into a drop zone.
1:28So essentially you can use the accessibility settings
1:31to essentially control the interface.
1:33This is actually quite big.
1:35If you're using assistive technology, I actually recommend you try this at least once.
1:39Try and use Tableau using the accessibility settings and some of the shortcuts that are available for you to navigate around the whole entire screen.
1:46If you use those alongside screen reading technologies and assistive technologies, you get a genuine experience of how much of the Tableau product.
1:54actually works with accessibility settings and it's really really good and it's something that they've continued to pour effort into which I really really love.
2:01The other thing is hey what if you don't have a need for the accessibility settings?
2:06You don't think you have a need?
2:07Well
2:07If you've ever watched someone who works in Tableau as a power user, they actually use some of these shortcuts themselves to be able to quickly do things.
2:15And because these sort of cuts exist, you can actually use them as well as part of your own workflow.
2:19They're not just for people who need them, they're for everyone to use.
2:22So it's a good example of a feature where you know a rising tide lifts all boats, as the saying goes.
2:27So really great setting.
2:29Right, image export improvements.
2:31This is again, I think, explicit to web authoring.
2:34So when exporting or creating subscription and extension export services, architecture helps you load dashboards that use extensions and generate image outputs
2:42that match how you see your data when logged in.
2:44So essentially when you exported a dashboard, you'd have extensions and those extensions would not render correctly when you exported them as images.
2:53This feature essentially allows this to happen so analysts and admins can simplify considerations around exports and automated jobs and provide a unified dashboard experience when users download them
3:03Access subscriptions and thumbnails, receive alerts, collaborate on Slack and more because all of these thumbnails now correctly render the extensions inside of the dashboard.
3:12So here I think the example they've used is um
3:16It's somewhat odd they've embedded the table homepage as a little widget on the page.
3:23I don't know how that's an example.
3:25But maybe it gives a little feel of hey look this is an embedded component and it's actually going to generate just fine when you take a screenshot in this particular case.
3:32I think that's what this screenshot's actually trying to show, but maybe not.
3:35So that's good to know.
3:37Tableau app for Office 365.
3:39This is actually quite nice.
3:40There's a Tableau app that comes into Microsoft 365.
3:43So this is PowerPoint, Word, Excel, I assume, as well.
3:47and you can actually go and pull screenshots from the Tableau report and put them in your presentation.
3:54This is interesting because there was a partner uh that partnered with Tableau in
3:58uh Tableau conference and their whole skit was being able to do this.
4:02So it's a bit strange that the the conference, at least immediately after the conference, Tableau shipped a feature that does this natively.
4:08inside of the product, probably using a lot more of the capability that Microsoft has.
4:13There was a partnership between Microsoft and Salesforce a while back
4:16One of the things they improved on was Microsoft Teams.
4:18I assume that the partnership goes on here because they're bringing more capabilities to Office 365.
4:24So this is really, really nice.
4:25So it specifically calls out
4:26PowerPoint slides and Word documents, not Excel.
4:29So Excel would only make sense from a data perspective, I guess, and being able to export data to Excel is probably something IT admins don't want to do, even though that's what everyone wants to do.
4:38So
4:39Uh yeah, that's probably not gonna make it through the list.
4:41Alright, SCIM agnostic of authentication protocols.
4:46This is I I never I never understand what SCIM
4:49I don't I can't tell you how many times I've done these videos and this is the one thing that just never skits stiff sits in my head.
4:54So we're just gonna have to read this.
4:56Increase flexibility and simplify integration by extending SCIM support on Tableau Cloud
5:01beyond SAML to include the modern OpenID Connect OIDC protocol.
5:05So essentially adding another protocol to this capability, cloud administrators can seamlessly select OIDC, the OpenID Connect protocol.
5:14as an authentication method in the SCIM configuration.
5:18Okay?
5:19So essentially, you know what?
5:22I'm just gonna find out what SCIM
5:24means give me one second.
5:25So sim, I'm reliably told, stands for System for Cross Domain Identity Management.
5:31So cross-domain identity management, this is essentially when you have, let's say you have a company that owns two subsidiaries
5:37Those serveries would each have their own domain for how they work.
5:41Let's say I'm Unilever and I own Dove.
5:44com and I also own Wools.
5:46com.
5:46There's a personal care and ice cream products
5:49You might want the employees who work for WALS and the employees who work for Dove to be able to log into the same protocol using their emails.
5:56And so this would essentially allow you to do that, I believe.
5:59And open
6:00ID Connect is another protocol that handles that.
6:03It's a more open system compared to the standard one that's already shipped and supported today
6:08So SCIM was also added in a previous release.
6:12So it's essentially just building on this capability to make it a little bit more robust.
6:16A view data model enhancements, I think I already touched on this.
6:19This is basically bringing that to web altering in this particular context.
6:22So that's why it's here in Tableau Cloud.
6:24Smart filter on table name.
6:26This was again covered in the desktop video.
6:28So again, the exact same feature.
6:30You can go check out my video on that.
6:32And there's a short as well that points to this.
6:34So exactly the same feature, essentially being able to search
6:37this filter pane here at the top with a uh nomenclature that allows you just to look at table names rather than necessarily searching fields which is quite nice.
6:46Tableau maps, mixed geometry.
6:48I've already done a video on this as well, so we can skip through this.
6:51External key management for extracts.
6:53This is actually interesting.
6:55When you have an external key for extract, what we're really talking about is encryption.
7:00And when you encrypt an extract, essentially making the file secure so that if you were to access the server that the extract was physically stored on,
7:09You could essentially get that extract file and open it in Tableau Desktop natively on the server itself by encrypting it with an external
7:18key, what you're basically doing is providing Tableau Cloud with a key that you control, an encryption key that you control, which means if someone gets access directly to the server,
7:28They can't actually access the file because they don't have the external key that's required to open that extract.
7:33So this capability essentially allows you to have that.
7:37capability to manage the key separately.
7:40So enhance the security of your data extracts in tablet cloud with external key management.
7:44Integrate directly with your AWS key management service.
7:48So that's known as KMS in the AWS ecosystem.
7:50to gain full control over the encryption keys to protect your data.
7:54So here you would manage the keys in AWS.
7:57And so if you cycle the keys or change the keys
7:59they would also sync up with your tableau cloud and your extracts would probably have to be taken again because they'd need to use the key.
8:05So external key management extracts is generally available in Tableau Cloud.
8:10Red Hat Linux.
8:12R H E L stands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I think.
8:17That's what R H E L stands for, I think.
8:19support for Tableau Server.
8:20So essentially you can now use this version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for Tableau Server which is a
8:29An interesting one.
8:29I don't know why it says Tableau Server when this is a Tableau Cloud release.
8:32I think specifically they're just talking about this.
8:37Let me read this because this makes no sense.
8:39Enable customers who are legally
8:42And securely required to run the latest Red Hat Enterprise to upgrade their Tableau server instance.
8:47Administrators can install the installer from the Tableau website
8:53I think this is snuck into this, but it shouldn't be here.
8:56I think this is supposed to be in the next release.
8:58Or they've released
9:01this capability for Tableau Server now so that people can install this now and not have to wait because there might be a deadline coming to have to switch over to this version.
9:13That's the most logical thing
9:14Because it clearly says Tableau Server, which makes sense.
9:17You shouldn't have to do this yourself for Tableau Cloud.
9:20Tableau managed Tableau Cloud, so there's no need for it to support this version of Linux.
9:24That's entirely up to Salesforce or Tableau.
9:27So this must be it.
9:28It's a Tableau Server feature coming out now because there's probably a deadline that's dependent on it.
9:32Disable duplicate custom view names.
9:35Oh this is so good.
9:36So basically custom views are this a capability that allows you to go into a report and save a specific
9:41version of it that's yours and so every time you go to that workbook it's pre-filtered it's preset to your specific settings the problem is that you could name those with names that clashed
9:51And so this capability allows you essentially to strengthen the reliability of these.
9:55The reason you want to be able to have custom names for custom views is because if two people call the same custom view the same thing.
10:02then you can't dynamically link to it.
10:04You can't dynamically and reliably use it.
10:05So by forcing this setting, you essentially now know that if you create a custom view with a specific name
10:11you can reliably link to it and know that no other one is going to clash with it, which is quite a nice so let's read this feature.
10:17Strengthen product reliability and create a more intuitive custom views experience by blocking the creation of duplicate names and providing a clear inline alert.
10:25when a save will overwrite an existing view.
10:28This eliminates silent failures and prevents confusion, particularly in large enterprise environments.
10:33Yes sir, everyone thinks of the same acronyms and everyone does the same lazy
10:37titling and typing like test one and test first and test two disabling duplicate custom view names is generally available in tableau cloud so that's great
10:47Spatial joins and calculations.
10:48So this is prep in the browser.
10:50I'll actually leave the Tableau Prep features.
10:52We'll cover them in a separate video for Tableau Prep.
10:54So Tableau Prep is a hyperservice.
10:56We'll leave that as well.
10:57Bring your own connector
10:59Pilot.
10:59So this is interesting.
11:00Accelerate your journey to cloud and centralize governance with Bring Your Own Connector, BY O C.
11:06This is sort of borrowed from Bring Your Own Device, Bring B Y O D.
11:10Now in pilot, organizations using proprietary systems or unsupported databases can now deploy custom drivers and connectors, enabling migration to Tableau Cloud.
11:18So this is kind of nice.
11:19So Tableau Cloud is run by Tableau.
11:21So you might wonder, well, I could already do this on Tableau Server.
11:24Yes, you can.
11:25But here's the problem.
11:26Because Tableau Cloud is managed by Tableau.
11:28If you had a proprietary database or very weird custom driver for your specific database, it was not easy to get it to work with Tablet Cloud because Tablet Cloud only supported the generally available
11:40drivers and connectors and so this allows you to use those bespoke drivers.
11:45Bring your own connector unlocks the full power of web authoring, publish data source extracts and tablet prep flows whilst ensuring site level governance
11:53and usage monitoring to essentially making sure that everything works.
11:56So this is actually quite nice for enterprise organizations trying to move to the Tableau Cloud.
12:01They're doing everything they can to get that move done.
12:03So this is again quite nice
12:05REST API connector, this is something I covered in the desktop version essentially.
12:09This is a new connector, so you don't have to build a web data connector to connect to a specific data source.
12:14Instead
12:14You give it your API details, you give it the JSON path or the format, and then it goes off and actually just connects to that using the authentication method that you've provided.
12:23So that's really quite nice.
12:25Google Looker Connector, I've talked about this already in another video.
12:28Essentially, this is just the ability to connect to a Google Looker data model
12:33write in Tableau without having to go and export the data sources and repeat the work that you would have done in Google look at inside a Tableau.
12:40New Amazon S3 connector, this is just an update really to the existing connector.
12:45It's a little bit more reliable
12:46Essentially this NAS allows you to connect to any data inside of your S3 bucket, uses S CSV and parquet files specifically.
12:53So again, I've done a video on that.
12:55OWAT for Cloudera Impala, this is again something I touched on as a connector update, I believe.
13:00So streamline authentication with this by configuring Impala instances to use OWALD, organizations can move away from legacy authentication.
13:07So essentially an updated authentication method.
13:11Tableau bridge client status in ActivityLog.
13:13So ActivityLog is a capability that tracks pretty much everything that's going on inside of your Tableau Cloud or your Tableau Server environment
13:20In Tableau Cloud, it tracks some specific things related to Tableau Cloud here.
13:24What they're doing is they're letting you see the status of your Tableau Bridge instance.
13:28Now Tableau Bridge
13:30is a capability that runs inside of your own organization.
13:32It essentially sits on a machine or a server inside of your own organization.
13:37And anytime Tableau Cloud needs a refresher for data extract
13:40It pings Tableau Bridge and says, hey, can you reach inside the firewall and update this data source for me?
13:45Tableau Bridge does the work and then pushes the data source back up to Tableau Cloud.
13:49You need this because the Tableau Cloud needs a way to get into the company firewall.
13:54And so what you have is essentially, let me use a really bad term for this, Trojan horse that sits within your firewall, that is monitored and checked, of course, set up with IT
14:03And that's the only thing that can communicate to Tablet Cloud.
14:06Being able to see the status of this lets you know if an X-Rec is going to fail or if something happens, and so you can monitor this over time and make sure that your activity log is
14:15telling you about all the issues and instances.
14:17For example, if someone switches the server off, you need to know that Tablet Bridge is down and actually all your extracts that are set to call Tablet Bridge won't succeed.
14:24So this is this is quite nice
14:26Okay, Tableau Bridge Improved Job Monitoring.
14:29So this is again an improvement to Tableau Bridge.
14:31Let me read this because I haven't heard about this.
14:33Manage your background workloads more efficiently with enhanced Tableau Bridge Monitoring
14:37Admin views and the query job background jobs APIs now report the sent to bridge status.
14:44This update provides clear visibility to which jobs are running on local bridge clients versus those utilizing tablet cloud background
14:51resources.
14:52So just a bit more resiliency, a little bit more transparency into what's going on.
14:56Tableau agent dashboard narratives beta.
14:59Man, this is
15:00Interesting.
15:01So the Tableau Agent is a capability that's come to dashboards.
15:04Now it requires you to have Tableau AI enabled, which requires you to have
15:09a SKU or a license that connects to the Tableau AI capabilities.
15:13Some of these require you to have access to essentially the top-tier Tableau license level.
15:19So the first thing is to use any AI capability you need that.
15:22The second thing is this then connects to Tableau Cloud directly.
15:27So what is essentially happening is desktop is calling this specific capability and it runs inside of the cloud.
15:33Now in this particular instance this is happening in web authoring.
15:37and specifically for Tableau Cloud.
15:39You can't do this in Tableau Server, at least not yet.
15:41And so what this allows us to do is essentially have narratives about our data inside of this Tableau agent
15:48Now this is not the first time that this has been done.
15:50We actually used to have something called Explained Data and we've had a couple of other features that have actually touched on this.
15:55Tableau acquired this company called Narrative Science a really long time ago and actually they pioneered this kind of
16:01way of summarizing information.
16:03There was a feature called stories, which was a way of basically building these into the dashboard directly.
16:08I don't even know if that feature still exists.
16:10or if it's been quietly deprecated and moved to Tableau Agent.
16:13Something I'll check out when this feature releases, but yeah, this is essentially what this feature is.
16:18Narratives that help explain the data that's going on to the left in the side panel.
16:22So kind of handy
16:24Hey Tableau Pulse.
16:25Tableau Pulse has been getting on lots and lots of features.
16:29I really need to do a big, big update on this to basically bring it all up to date.
16:32There's been a lot of really great touches.
16:34So what I'll do is I'll do Tableau Pulse in a separate video
16:37And that should conclude everything that we need to know about Tableau Cloud.
16:41Alright, thanks for watching.
16:42Catch the next video where I'll hop into Tableau Prep.
16:45And then we'll do Tableau Pulse as a separate video.
16:48So two more videos to come and then hopefully the release comes out just in time.
16:52We can get hands-on with these features.
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