# Tableau 2024.1 Features : Coming Soon.

> 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:** 2024-02-05
- **Format:** Video · 1849 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, AI & ML, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud, embedding, prep, pulse, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2024-1-features-coming-soon
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAeuDb5i4Q

I walk through Tableau's 2024.1 coming-soon page in chronological order, flagging upfront that this is overwhelmingly a Tableau Pulse release with very little new for Tableau Desktop. I break down the confusing Pulse and AI terminology, then cover the remaining cloud, authentication, data prep and connector features.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2024.1 is dominated by Tableau Pulse coming out of beta, with only two minor Tableau Desktop features and no Tableau server release until 24.2.
- Pulse only runs on Tableau Cloud and is said never to come to Tableau server, so a large body of server users get nothing analytical from this release.
- The AI naming is a confusing hierarchy: Tableau AI is the parent, Tableau Pulse GAI (generative AI) sits under it, with insight summaries as a sub-feature, all built on the Einstein trust layer.
- Tableau Prep keeps gaining useful tweaks such as identifying duplicate rows and choosing the header and start row for Excel files, narrowing the gap with Alteryx.
- Cloud-only additions include buying Tableau Cloud via the AWS marketplace, a Migration SDK for server-to-cloud moves, expanded storage tiers, MFA and OpenID authentication enhancements, and SMTP email customisation.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Intro: a Pulse-heavy release
- 1:04 Release cadence and the elephant
- 2:53 Pulse leaves beta: concerns
- 6:36 Breaking down Pulse AI terminology
- 9:09 Pulse metrics and insights platform
- 12:18 Slack, email and embedding
- 13:40 Cloud, AWS marketplace and migration SDK
- 16:46 Authentication and storage changes
- 19:07 Data prep and connector updates
- 24:30 Dynamic parameters and email customisation
- 29:35 Wrap-up

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2024-1-features-coming-soon

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