0:00Okay, Tableau 26.
0:013 is coming soon.
0:03I have to say, Tableau is in such a weird place right now.
0:07I have no clue what's going on, and I don't mean that I'm not following what's going on.
0:13I j I just couldn't tell you where the product is heading.
0:16It's such a weird place.
0:18And I think this release calls that out the most.
0:22We've just come off the back of Dreamforce.
0:24I recently made a video about that.
0:26If you haven't checked it out, I didn't post it on LinkedIn.
0:28I only posted it here on YouTube.
0:30Go ahead and check that video out.
0:31It's gonna be the top comment.
0:34below but Tableau made a ton of announcements at Dreamforce.
0:39They were split between I'm gonna call it Tableau Next and the Salesforce ecosystem and Tableau Core the product that we know and love
0:47But needless to say, I really struggled in that video to sort of piece together what was where.
0:53But what I can definitely say is that a lot of the thinking that's in all of Salesforce around Tableau is coming to all parts of the Tableau ecosystem.
1:02I think I've had as much of that in in terms of clarity, but just what I can tell you is when it's coming and what to expect.
1:10A good example is something called Tableau Studio.
1:12I'm kind of looking out for that here in this 26-3 release, but it feels like it might come later down the line.
1:18It might be something that gets pushed.
1:21Maybe in phases if that makes sense.
1:23So let's have a look and see what's in 26.
1:263.
1:26There's a couple ways I've done this video in the past.
1:29I've sometimes just hopped in and just started to go through it
1:32Because the way they organize this is quite self-serving.
1:36It talks a lot about Tableau Next first.
1:38And I'm just being frankly honest, that's not what most Tableau analysts are looking for.
1:43I'm gonna go about it a slightly different way.
1:45They have this sort of drop down that's very very quick and easy to do.
1:49So the first bit of this video, I'm just gonna go through this drop-down and and try and see what's in
1:54in each part of the ecosystem.
1:56But what I've already realized is that there's a lot happening in this release for the cloud and API capabilities.
2:04But a lot less for the core audience in terms of desktop and um you know, server has a a release in this particular update.
2:12But
2:12It the there's just it's just a little bit harder to f to figure out what's what.
2:17But if you look at the list, it's a very long list of stuff.
2:22So there's a lot happening inside of the Tableau ecosystem.
2:25It feels like the plumbing, the underfloor heating, the plaster board is going in.
2:31And it's all in preparation for what I think is going to be Tableau Studio and the New Look Tableau, which is something that's going to take time.
2:38I don't think it's going to land.
2:40just like that.
2:40But I think over the course of the next year, maybe two years, if I'm just being optimistic about how these things ship, we'll have a very different look to Tableau.
2:49And maybe I'll update my video explaining the Tableau ecosystem finally.
2:53Anyway
2:53Let's have a look at this list.
2:55I've talked around it.
2:56So Tableau Bridge, there shouldn't really be much of an update, just a few enhancements really to support Tableau Bridge in the places that it's at.
3:04You've got the Tableau catalog.
3:06This is an add-on that probably isn't getting much addition here, at least from a capability perspective.
3:11Same with a Tableau Management add-on.
3:13Although it's not obvious if they've just forgotten to tag these.
3:16That sometimes happen
3:17Tableau mobile, nothing there.
3:19Tableau desktop.
3:21Yikes.
3:22Just transparent tooltips.
3:25What?
3:26I'm hoping that's just more of like a, you know, the the features are coming to cloud, but they've just not been correctly tagged as desktop.
3:33If I go to cloud though, let's have a look at this.
3:35Okay, it's a lot longer list.
3:38These features are s sometimes in desktop, but maybe they come into the web author and cloud interface first.
3:46But I have to say there there's not much here that overlaps cleanly with desktop.
3:51Let's look at Tableau Next.
3:53No surprise there, Tableau Next gets the bulk of the enhancements.
3:57I'd say almost half of the updates are Tableau Next related.
4:01Tableau prep.
4:02I love my Tableau Prep.
4:03Only one feature.
4:05What is going on?
4:06Tableau bridge for prep.
4:08Oh my word.
4:09Tableau prep.
4:10The stuff I love.
4:11Just getting no love.
4:12What is up with that?
4:14Tableau public.
4:15Okay.
4:16Some of these are actually pretty live already.
4:18Tableau public enhancements to show your accomplishments.
4:21That is live
4:22Tableau public published data sources.
4:25Ooh, that's interesting.
4:26So these are curated data sources that many people can go and have a look at.
4:30Although I'm cheating, I'm going into some of the features already.
4:33I shouldn't be doing that.
4:34Tableau reader
4:35There shouldn't be anything for that really.
4:37Tableau server, this is a server release, so just think of this as everything in 26.
4:412 and 26.
4:423 come into server.
4:44So that makes a lot of sense, although it's not even that big.
4:46But hey, it's good to see all these capabilities at least rolling out eventually here on this platform.
4:52Then advanced management, no additional capabilities there.
4:55So data management, advanced management, two separate capabilities, no no real sort of love.
5:01So I think it's safe to say that a large majority of these features are Tableau Next features.
5:06The second biggest group is Tableau Cloud and the general platform there just getting a bit of an enhancement generally speaking.
5:13And then yeah.
5:15It definitely feels like a release where the plumbing, the plaster boarding, the underfloor heating, the windows, the gutters, uh, the attic.
5:23Everything but the core is getting an update in preparation, I think, of something big to come.
5:30That's just it could be copium, it could be wish casting, whatever you want to call it.
5:34Um, but also just could it might not even happen.
5:37Don't take my word for that.
5:38Now, where to start?
5:40I think I want to start with Table Cloud, just to sort of keep things nice and easy.
5:44I won't dive into each and every one of these features like I normally do because I feel like if you know and you've watched videos on this channel you should know what these features are generally speaking.
5:53So Tableau Data Apps, Tableau Cloud Beta.
5:56vibe code data apps from any oh that gets cut off so uh while using tableau for querying connectivity governance and app hosting turn any idea into a custom data app
6:07Then host it on Tableau, Cloud, or Server in a safe admin control environment.
6:12Once published, the app carries the same governance permissions as any other Tableau asset.
6:16So it can be shared broadly without becoming a new security or compliance risk.
6:21So interesting.
6:23So essentially what they're doing is they're sort of letting you vibe code.
6:28in Claude, this is what they're showing here, but once the thing is built, you can host it in Tableau Cloud.
6:36So they're essentially turning Tableau Cloud into like a hosting platform so your vibe coded things can genuinely live on top
6:42of the uh tableau goodness if that makes sense.
6:47That's a pretty smart platform if I have to give it to them.
6:50Come on, how many people are vibe coding apps?
6:51And if you can just vibe code stuff that's already connected to Tableau
6:55Well what are you gonna do?
6:55You're gonna go ahead and create all these new connections and and ask your IT admin if you can uh set up a connection to your vibe get it up?
7:03No, of course not.
7:03Also, if you're doing this and you're doing it to a published data source, it's gonna stay up to date.
7:08So this is already kinda handy.
7:10So yeah, I'll give it to them.
7:11It's a smart idea.
7:12Um it's coming to Tablet Cloud in October 26th.
7:15I'll definitely do a video on this.
7:17This is actually quite an interesting proposition and it kind of flies against its typical approach, which is to have Claude build a Tableau asset inside of Tableau.
7:25This is basically saying, hey, you know what?
7:27You just vibe code whatever you want inside of
7:29Claude, and we'll just host it for you.
7:31That's a pretty smart move.
7:33Tablet add-on for Microsoft Excel.
7:35So
7:37Um bring data from Tableau worksheets and publish data sources directly into Microsoft Excel to aggregate, model, and analyze.
7:45Okay, so you can essentially and this is such a weird play to see Tableau just be just there inside of Excel.
7:52I thought this is what we were trying to get rid of.
7:54I think we called it Excel hell in my last uh video.
7:58Man, analytics is weird right now.
8:00Like things and features I thought would never recommend and condone are just out there being shoved in your face as hey, here's a feature.
8:09I get it.
8:10We can do the same with Google Sheets.
8:12Why wouldn't you do it inside of Excel?
8:15I guess the nice thing is hopefully the add-on updates the data and everything stays in sync.
8:20So for those people who actually want that tabula view
8:23This is kind of like a nice chi code if that makes sense.
8:26So this example here, they're bringing some data into the view.
8:29It's kind of an interesting demo.
8:31And then they are fetching that same data source, but this time the person selecting all the columns.
8:38Not quite the same thing.
8:40I don't know what link those two have.
8:42But yeah, being able to oh I see, I see, I see.
8:47So they're okay.
8:49So they are they're connecting data in Excel, then they're exporting it and
8:53sending it off to Tableau Cloud to build off it.
8:56So it's almost like they're using Excel as a way to drive what the Tableau interface is doing.
9:02Yeah, send the data back to
9:03Tableau is a published data source by extending our Microsoft 365 integration, ensuring your trusted data is accessible wherever your team works.
9:10That's kind of good.
9:11It's a smart way of getting
9:13that Excel goodness back inside of the Tableau ecosystem a much much needed capability.
9:20So I started off pessimistic and I'm looking at each of these and actually it's not a bad idea
9:25Virtual connection enhancement.
9:26Virtual connections to me are just a must.
9:28If you have the add-on that enables the virtual connections, I believe it's data management, you should absolutely be using them because they are much, much easier.
9:36Virtual Connections now support Snowflake keypair authentication, giving you a more secure way to connect to your Snowflake data.
9:42I feel like this is long over D
9:44Plus V-Cons virtual connections now include 11 new APIs to download and publish extracts programmatically.
9:50Together these enhancements ensure VCon's deployments are more operable
9:55at scale with the flexibility and governance enterprises need.
9:58So that's pretty nice.
9:59Very nice feature.
10:01Tableau data source edit API.
10:04Ooh
10:05The Tableau Data Source TDS Edit API lets you programmatically update description for fills and tables in published data sources instead of manually changing definitions one data source at a time.
10:16or editing XML.
10:18Oh this is nice.
10:19I get excited about these because you see these are necessary for uh an LLM to come in, hook in and allow you to start to do stuff.
10:28but they're also exposing them to us as capabilities.
10:30So they make a ton of sense.
10:32VisQL data service query workbook data sources.
10:35Okay, so you can go into workbook and query data sources in publish workbooks.
10:40That's actually quite nice.
10:42Rserve over HTTP, run R models with higher limits and faster requests.
10:48So it feels like they're just increasing by the sort of the boundaries by wrapping your Rserv server with uh REST.
10:56Oh my god, that's how how do you even read this?
10:58By wrapping your Rserv server with rest r serve and reconnecting with HTTP, you can use R models in model calculations while supporting payloads up to 100 meg
11:09Jobs up to 15 minutes and faster requests.
11:11The migration does not require changes to existing workbooks, helping you move to a modern HTTP connection with less disruption.
11:18Our server at HTTP is available in Tablet Cloud and Tablet Server
11:21But this sentence is like the biggest tongue twister.
11:24By wrapping your R Serve server with rest r serve, rest r serve.
11:30Oh, REST, Rserve must be like some sort of REST API or something like that.
11:35And reconnecting with HTP, you can use Rserver.
11:38Okay, yeah, I I don't understand what's going on.
11:40Someone explain to me, help me out
11:42Tableau agent in dashboards.
11:43Okay, this makes a ton of sense.
11:45So being able to use a tablet agent just being more contextually aware.
11:49Again, this is Tableau Cloud only, makes sense.
11:51You'd have to be in web edit in order to see this happen.
11:56But you can see here Tableau Agent and Dashboards is in open beta in Tableau Cloud and Tableau Plus.
12:02So these are the licenses where that's required
12:04Tablet agent in dashboard workbook business preferences.
12:07So essentially being able to persist preferences, improve response accuracy, configure business preferences.
12:13You can upload a text file.
12:15Think of that as like a prompt if that makes sense.
12:18So
12:18Again, that's kind of handy.
12:20Simply upload the markdown file containing business rules, KPIs, and definitions.
12:24This is sort of like Tableau adopting the .
12:27md capability into the Tableau platform.
12:29So it's a bit like
12:30Tableau said, hey, what is going on with AI and how can we hook that into pretty much any part of our platform?
12:36And lo and behold, they've sort of started to do it.
12:38Dark mode visits.
12:41Dark mode for visitors lets you view dashboards and visualizations in a dark theme or for more comfortable accessible viewing experience.
12:48Yeah, it's true.
12:48I'm here on the type of website and it's bright as anything.
12:51So if we can get a dark mode for the interface, that would be nice.
12:54Turn it on from the accessibility section of your account settings.
12:57Okay, makes sense.
12:58That is actually quite a nice accessibility feature, if that makes sense
13:01Transparent tooltips, the only desktop capability.
13:06I just don't understand why.
13:08Just why
13:10The more you allow people to I can't think of a good scenario.
13:14I mean the only okay, here's here's a trend that we're about to see.
13:16We're about to see tons of tooltips with lovely five pixel rounded corners
13:22and transparency of about s maybe 20% to give off this like glass look when you hover over stuff.
13:29The thing about that is it's a nice aesthetic, but it's just really not adding anything.
13:34So hey, if it was on the cutting room floor and it was easy to add, then it's much appreciated.
13:39But um yeah
13:41Revision notes for workbooks and data.
13:43Ooh, track what changed and why for every published workbook and data source.
13:49Okay, that's cool.
13:49We already had version history.
13:51That wasn't new.
13:52That's already been available for some time.
13:54But adding notes is actually quite nice.
13:57So you can actually go in and type these.
13:59Now it would be nice if AI wrote this rather than you have to do it.
14:03It looks like you have to go in and do that yourself.
14:05Tableau knowledge.
14:06Now this has been talked about.
14:08at the Dreamforce.
14:10So power AI agents with a complete understanding of how your business works.
14:14Tableau knowledge unifies all the structured and unstructured data you've already built into knowledge graphs that link
14:20each data asset by relationship.
14:22From there, your team can inspect, curate, and enrich each graph creating living representations of your organization.
14:29With your business knowledge, accessible AI agents can skip the guesswork and quickly retrieve the trusted governed knowledge they need to reason and deliver accurate insights.
14:39Okay.
14:40So that's basically like a word salad.
14:43We're gonna have to use it.
14:44It looks like a lot of work.
14:45I know in the demos they've said hey this is pretty easy.
14:48This is really fast.
14:50But it does look like yet another piece of work that someone has to go and do.
14:54I don't know if you've ever vibated something, but what this feels like is something that you vibe coded.
14:59uh like a month ago but then you kind of didn't use it and the reason you stopped using it is because you you hated having to maintain it and keep it working.
15:07Um
15:08Yeah, this kind of relies on, you know, someone who has the mentality around being a completionist.
15:14And yeah, not not everyone in every business has that.
15:17Sometimes teams are pretty busy.
15:18So
15:19I know this is supposed to help do some of this stuff for you, but it would be really interesting to see how this graph actually starts to play out.
15:27I feel like the Tableau product needs this in the first place for the Tableau Studio model to really really work.
15:32So first comes Tableau knowledge.
15:34Once that semantic conduct context and metadata starts to get enriched.
15:38then something like Tableau Studio can really sing because it knows who you are, where you are, what you've done, what you work with, and it's also got the organizational context to understand how things come together.
15:49That makes a ton of logical sense.
15:51And I think it's how the diagram at Tableau Dreamforce, the Salesforce Dreamforce was set up.
15:56Okay.
15:56Tableau Pulse, organized metrics by tags.
15:59That's pretty straightforward
16:01It does exactly what it says in the tent.
16:02Long overdue.
16:03I love tablet pulse.
16:04It's a nice little feature.
16:05I I had downplayed it when it first came out, but my word.
16:08The more I think about Tableau Post, the more I think this is actually what people need.
16:12If you're building dashboards, don't just create a nice data source.
16:17spin out some metrics and just send that to people and say, hey, will this do?
16:20And then they'll play with it, s configure it, change it.
16:23And I think ninety percent of the time this is what people actually want.
16:26Their own little metric they can curate.
16:28I I don't think they need all the other stuff.
16:30Tableau agent in pulse.
16:32Okay, so this is the agent sort of coming back into pulse, giving you more alert insights.
16:38So this is pretty cool.
16:39Go from pulse email digest to to conversational analytics in a single click with email digest entry points.
16:45So essentially being brought deep into some insight.
16:49This is kind of nice.
16:50This is kind of nice.
16:51I think I should probably do a video on Tableau Pass and sort of see where it is a couple years later
16:56tablet agent impulse ranking and breakdown questions so yeah being able to do that that's uh it's a pretty nice touch these are all the sort of ai
17:05bits and bobs being added back into the platform.
17:08Um digest and alerts in Microsoft Teams.
17:11Oh that makes very logical sense.
17:13I actually get these in Slack today.
17:14I actually find them useful.
17:15I have them for my YouTube analytics and
17:17Yeah, it's good they've only they've only been negative because I've not making I've not been making content.
17:23But no, it's nice to actually kind of have this stuff in teams.
17:26Teams becoming an equal citizen is actually quite important and
17:29I like they're really pushing this sort of way of working because a lot of the value it's just not there for people if it's only available in Slack.
17:37So yeah, Tableau MCP admin tools so manage administrative tasks
17:41like scale content cleanup and so on and so forth through the MCP.
17:46That's pretty cool.
17:47Capacity utilization and event logs.
17:50Makes a ton of sense, kind of boring for most of us, but important if you're monitoring and managing the Tableau Cloud platform
17:57Tableau Cloud Skim on custom domains.
18:00Man, I think the last time I did a video on Skim, I just murdered it.
18:03So I'm not gonna even try and do this.
18:05What I will say is a skim is a way to allow organizations to essentially manage
18:10who has access to what using their own identity management portals and the way that the grouping works within that.
18:17So Tableau just basically synchronizes using this Skim protocol across
18:23Table cloud and the enterprise.
18:25I'm gonna say identity provider.
18:27I'm not sure if it's just the identity provider, but yeah, that's essentially it.
18:30Having on custom domains is pretty good.
18:32cool so tablet card scheme on custom mains is generally available in tablet cloud automate your provisioning and group syncs using cross customized corporate url endpoints so this is a good example you might have let's say company x
18:45dot com but you might also have like variants of that URL that sit under the same domain, the same company, but is a slightly different business.
18:54So you could have like
18:55an insurance company, a finance like company, and then I don't know, like a an accounting company.
19:02They all sit under one global company, but they have slightly different URLs.
19:07that could be a good uh way of doing it so people's emails don't have to be aligned to one central domain.
19:13Tableau advanced cross region continuity, so ACRC
19:18advance cross region continuity, replicate side data continuously to secondary regions for automated failover during regional cloud arches.
19:26That's pretty cool.
19:27Preserve content, user permissions analytics workflow.
19:30So that's kind of a nice feature actually if you think about it.
19:33That's quite cool.
19:34Cross-region continuity.
19:36I wonder if that means like you'd have to accept that like yeah all your content exists across multiple sites for the benefit of being able to have that sort of failover capability
19:46And that makes sense if you've got tablet cloud because then you could essentially designate uh if you're on the enterprise plan where you can have up to 50 sites, you could essentially create like
19:56a main site in one region, a backup site in another region, and if there's a failover you can just use some of your spare sites as that capacity, especially for mission critical work.
20:06And you don't need it for every single site, you just need it for the mission critical stuff.
20:10So it makes makes a ton of sense.
20:12Table cloud admin profiles.
20:14These have been getting richer.
20:16being able to sort of really specify and lock down what an admin can do and being able to sort of break it down.
20:22This is sort of where Aldres could learn a lesson.
20:24So delegate targeted site management permissions to creator and explore roles without granting full admin rights
20:29The problem with full admin rights is it gave that admin access to all the data as well.
20:33This just allows you to basically say, hey, you're an explorer, but you're an admin.
20:37or you're a creator but you're an admin and then they can do the necessary things they need to do to manage the uh platform so that's kind of nice inbound private connect AWS connect client browser securities tabloid cloud this is pretty cool
20:51AWS has some some nice features.
20:54Again, Tableau, Salesforce have run a lot of their infrastructure on AWS, so you tend to get slightly better connectivity between AWS and the Tableau ecosystem.
21:03Outbound private connect AWS Databricks, that's pretty nice.
21:08Outbound private connect is yours.
21:10These are all just protocols being brought in, I guess.
21:13into the Tableau Sphere so Tableau Bridge routing rules so being able to specify I guess how Tableau Bridge connects back out to Tableau Cloud.
21:21Admins can now separate Tableau Bridge workloads by content type.
21:24Not only by domain routing rules, the new name for the private network allowless to let you map bridge pools to projects as well as domains.
21:32For example, you can put critical content like executive dashboards in their own project and send that traffic to the dedicated pool, keeping it apart from everyday workloads.
21:41So it's always fast.
21:43That's pretty nice.
21:43Tableau Bridge single use refresh tokens.
21:46This is just a way for Tableau Bridge to update its tokens.
21:50Tableau Bridge graceful shutdown of Linux clients.
21:54Shut down a Linux bridge client without losing any PDS extract jobs.
21:58Can now run a command of the Linux container to initiate a graceful shutdown where the bridge client finishes.
22:03So you say shut down, but it will only shut down once there's no tasks
22:07running on it.
22:08Tableau bridge prep flows with Snowflake so you can now run Tableau PrepFlow flows they use Snowflake with Tableau Bridge.
22:14Before Prepflows at Ren Bridge couldn't include Snowflake connections.
22:18Now they can
22:19Tableau MCP query view data for all sheets.
22:23That's pretty cool.
22:23When you call the get view data tool in Tableau MCP, you can now retrieve data from all sheets in the dashboard, including sheets on hidden tabs.
22:32That's handy because you could build a dashboard with like data on hidden tabs, but then that data on hidden tabs could be purely for MCP access.
22:40So you could actually
22:41build into this a little bit, which is kind of nice.
22:43This gives you AI agents more complete context behind analysis.
22:47Instead of working from only a portion of view data, you can bring more complex results.
22:52That is cool.
22:54Last one, Tableau Pulse metric unfurl in Slack.
22:57So I think this is basically being able to click on a metric and then see its details.
23:02So essentially bringing richer data
23:04It's funny that as it lands on teams, it gets richer in Slack.
23:08First party access, I guess, is something that Salesforce can celebrate.
23:12So there you go, that's everything in Tableau Cloud.
23:14Um thanks for watching.
23:15As you saw, there's not much in desktop.
23:18So there's only transparent tooltips.
23:20I've kind of already done that.
23:21So yeah, um, you can call this everything new in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Cloud.
23:26Because we have pretty much covered everything.
23:28What I will do is in the next video, I will go through the Tableau Next features.
23:32I'm sort of compelled
23:34To go through the Tableau Next features here.
23:36It feels like where all the effort is gone, so it is worth sort of breaking these down into more detail.
23:41But yeah, we'll do that after this video, not today.
23:45Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.
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