# Taking a Tour of Tableau Next  Part 1 of 6 [Reposted]

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

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2026-04-10
- **Format:** Video · 25 min watch · transcript available
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/taking-a-tour-of-tableau-next--part-1-of-6-reposted
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6bdm5Jwmk

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Next lives inside the Salesforce ecosystem and depends heavily on Data Cloud and a Tableau Plus licence, so it's a genuinely different product with a different (Salesforce-focused) audience.
- Everything is organised into workspaces containing assets: semantic models, metrics, dashboards and visualisations, plus data sources sitting underneath — a clear hierarchy once you adjust to it.
- The metrics look exactly like Tableau Pulse and share its design language, but they are not Pulse — they're native Tableau Next metrics defined on top of a semantic model.
- The editing experience keeps recognisable Tableau DNA (marks, rows, columns, filters) but adds a structured grid layout and governance via 'extended' read-only models — and you'll hit walls where familiar tricks aren't supported.
- The semantic model is the heart of the product: you build relationships, calculated fields, metrics and parameters there, and can test the model and inspect the generated semantic query.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why Tableau Next gets its own space
- 3:02 Tableau Next lives inside Salesforce
- 5:07 Workspaces and the asset hierarchy
- 7:26 Dashboards and visualisations: familiar but unfamiliar
- 14:05 The semantic model: the heart of it
- 21:55 Where we go next

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/taking-a-tour-of-tableau-next--part-1-of-6-reposted

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