Tableau 2025.1 is Coming Soon
Explore the new features coming soon to Tableau
Notice for Tableau Cloud Users
We roll out Tableau Cloud updates over several weeks across our worldwide infrastructure for every quarterly product release. We begin with official Cloud infrastructure upgrades and then continue to release our on-premises products (e.g., Desktop, Server) to ensure that Tableau Cloud Users have immediate access to our new releases.
If you are a Tableau Cloud User, you may already have access to the new features listed here as “coming soon” on your site! To learn more about the Tableau Cloud releases, please visit the Tableau Cloud System Maintenance page.
Notice for Tableau Server subscribers
Tableau Server and the Resource Monitoring Tool moved from quarterly releases to twice a year releases in Q1 and Q3 (.1 and .3 releases). See here for more information on Tableau Server's release cadence.
Refresh Private Network Flat Files
Keep your flat file data up to date in Tableau Cloud. Upload files to a UNC drive and schedule automatic refreshes to integrate ad-hoc tables with governed data sources seamlessly. This feature increases analyst productivity by centralizing and streamlining data analysis.
Prep Query Logging in Resource Monitoring Tool
The Resource Monitoring Tool (RMT) now logs queries from Tableau Prep flows, making it easier for administrators to troubleshoot performance issues. Quickly identify if new queries are causing delays or if existing ones are slowing down. With RMT configured on Tableau Server, you’ll have the insights needed to keep your platform running smoothly.
Tableau Pulse: Multilingual Support
Drive scalability and reduce misinterpretation of your business trends by getting insights in your local language on both web and mobile. Pulse is available in all Tableau-supported languages and also respects the locale setting on your Tableau account, so specific regional settings such as currency are reflected in your insights.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Mobile Site Switcher
Eliminate repetitive manual steps and save time by easily switching between multiple cloud sites from a drop-down list on Tableau Mobile. The 'Switch Site' feature allows you to bypass the need to manually find and input the site URL or re-enter credentials each time you switch.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Period Change in Breakdown Chart
Identify what is driving your business with period-over-period changes of dimensions in the breakdown chart on the metric detail page. Pulse now shows you the percent change of dimension values next to the overall value within your breakdown chart.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Drill Down from Breakdown or Insights Chart
Quickly pinpoint and understand insights more precisely by drilling down into a specific dimension value. When you click on a specific item within an insight or breakdown, you'll see data and insights focused solely on that item. This helps you quickly delve one level deeper to better understand changes in your metrics.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Turn Off Expected Range
Enhance the clarity of your insights by toggling off unexpected values directly in the metric definitions within the Insights tab. By doing so, you'll disable the expected range, and remove the insight text and blue visual indicator from the chart on the insights page.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Revamped Homepage on Mobile
Easily access and compare key metrics on the go with the revamped Pulse homepage on mobile. You can now see at least three metrics at a glance and instantly identify trends for quicker, easier decision-making.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Corner Style for Pulse Metrics
Enhance the look of Pulse metrics in your dashboards with the ability to toggle between square and rounded corner styles. You can now switch between corner styles for Pulse metrics in the Pulse Dashboard Object settings.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Link Related Content
Access content relevant to your analysis easily by linking related content to metrics. You can now add up to five links in the core definition step, which will be presented on the insight exploration page and related metrics page.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Group & Sort in Slack Digests
Organize and evaluate your metrics with greater relevance in Slack digests using grouping and sorting. Settings in the 'Following' tab will be reflected in Slack digests.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Time Range Grouping
Drive more relevance and actionability from your insights by grouping metrics by time range. This allows you to review your metrics' performance in the context of a specific time frame, in addition to the existing grouping options. Setting a default view will be reflected across email and Slack digests, the Tableau mobile app, and the web.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Datasource Goals
Drive efficiency and accuracy by tracking your metrics performance in relation to goals from your data source. Rather than create a goal for each metric, you can now reference goals from the datasource in the metric definition. Datasource goals are optional, apply to all related metrics, and support partial and full periods.
This feature is generally available.
Tableau Pulse: Enhanced Q&A
Discover insights conversationally across related metrics and see how they impact business trends with speed and ease, all powered by AI. Pulse's enhanced Q&A experience provides intuitive key insights, relevant visualizations, source references, and suggested follow-up questions to help you dig deeper. Available as a premium feature on both web and mobile.
Connect to Data Using OAuth
Securely connect to your databases using OAuth with Tableau Bridge and Data Connect. Protect sensitive information and ensure only authorized users access data, enhancing security and maintaining compliance with modern standards.
Share Nodes Across All Cloud Sites
Simplify private network data access with shared Data Connect Nodes across all Tableau Cloud Sites. Reduce costs and streamline administration by deploying a single governed Node for all departments.
SAP HANA Bring Your Own IDP + JWT
Leverage external identity providers (IDPs) and JWT tokens for secure, centralized authentication to SAP HANA. Simplify user authentication and reduce IT overhead with seamless integration and enhanced governance.
External Identity Provider for Snowflake
Use custom identity providers to connect Tableau to Snowflake. This functionality reduces IT overhead, eliminates password storage in scripts, and improves security against credential leaks.
VizQL Data Service API
The VizQL Data Service API enables Tableau users to access their data without the need for visualizations. It empowers users to use Tableau's analytical engine as a service, unlocking new analytical possibilities and insights using the same data that powers Tableau visualizations.
Logical Table Data Source Filter
Boost performance and flexibility with Logical Table Data Source Filters, allowing analysts to easily reduce data volume at the logical table level before relationships are applied. Filter out irrelevant data without relying on Custom SQL - enabling faster, more efficient analysis.
Multi-fact Relationship Relatability Infoscenting
Easily navigate complex data models with Tableau’s Multi-Fact Relationship Infoscenting, which proactively highlights how fields in your visualization relate across shared dimensions. This feature eliminates ambiguity by surfacing contextual guidance, empowering analysts to explore data confidently without needing deep model expertise. Unlock deeper insights with fewer, more comprehensive data sources.
Data Model Accessibility
Data Model Accessibility makes it easy for all users to navigate Tableau’s relationship data model using keyboard controls and screen readers. Analysts can move between tables and relationships to better understand how data is connected, ensuring everyone can explore and analyze data effectively.
User Attributes in Native LWC
User Attributes in Native LWC allows developers to apply data security in Tableau’s embedded Experience Cloud portals without writing custom code. By configuring user attributes directly in the admin area and selecting them in the native LWC, developers can streamline secure data access and focus on building better user experiences.
Customizable Pulse Web Component
The Customizable Pulse Web Component empowers developers to fully tailor the look and behavior of Pulse by applying custom colors, fonts, and filters through code. With two-way communication support, developers can integrate Pulse into their applications while maintaining brand consistency and enhancing user interaction.
Exchange Connectors
Expand your analytics with new connectors from partners like dbt, Databricks, and MotherDuck. Install connectors directly from the Tableau Exchange for seamless integration and flexibility.
Google BigQuery Private Service Connect & Customer Managed Keys (ITAR support)
Ensure ITAR compliance with Private Service Connect URIs and Customer Managed Encryption Keys for Google BigQuery. Securely analyze sensitive data while maintaining control over encryption and network architecture.
Bridge Connectivity in Tableau Prep
Connect to on-prem data behind your VPN or firewall directly from Tableau Prep. Transform your data and schedule refreshes effortlessly.
Write to Databricks in Tableau Prep
Write datasets directly to Databricks from Tableau Prep in a few clicks. This streamlined integration accelerates self-service analytics and reduces dependency on multiple tools.
Input & Output Destination Filters in Tableau Prep
Improve data governance by restricting Tableau Prep users to trusted data destinations. Use REST APIs to manage input and output permissions, ensuring security and preventing data leakage.
Key Pair Authentication for Snowflake
Connect to Snowflake using secure key pair authentication on Tableau Server. Publish Snowflake-connected content and gain tighter security, better control over credentials, and seamless rotation of keys.
Tableau Agent Follow-up Suggestions
Tableau Agent Follow-up Suggestions streamline your analysis by offering contextual next steps after creating or modifying calculations. If Tableau Agent cannot complete a task, it provides alternative suggestions to help you stay on track.
Tableau Agent Multilingual Support
Tableau Agent Multilingual Support enables users to interact with Tableau Agent in their native language, making insights more accessible across the global Tableau community. By automatically detecting the site’s language settings, Tableau Agent delivers conversational analytics in languages like French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese.
Tableau Agent on Desktop
Tableau Agent on Desktop expands the power of agentic AI and conversational analytics to more users, helping analysts gain insights and boost productivity directly in Tableau Desktop.
Tableau Agent for the Data Consumer
Tableau Agent for the Data Consumer helps dashboard viewers quickly understand insights through natural language summaries. Now, viewers can ask Tableau Agent for a dashboard summary, making it easier to navigate, interpret, and quickly uncover insights.
This feature will be available in April 2025.
Tableau Cloud Indonesia & Singapore Region
Meet legal and data-residency requirements and increase performance for local users in the Indonesia and Singapore regions. When creating a site in Tableau Cloud Manager, Tableau customers can select Indonesia or Singapore regions.
Note: Singapore is generally available since December '24
Feature from Community Ideas
Default Date & Number formats in Web Authoring
Similar to Tableau Desktop, content creators can set the default number and date formatting via a new menu item when authoring on web. Select single or multiple related fields to set default display formatting in Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server.
Feature from Community Ideas
Activity Log for Security Events
Keep an eye on important site activities at all times and meet security and auditing compliance requirements with Tableau Cloud. Monitor all successful and failed login attempts, changes made by administrators to your key platform configuration settings, and where Tableau Prep flows are reading from and writing to in all your Tableau Cloud sites.
Keyboard Accessible Interactivity
In Tableau, everyone can interact with and take action on their data, including users who do not use a mouse to explore and understand their data. Users can keep, exclude, and sort data in a tooltip and select and highlight marks without a mouse in Tableay Cloud, Tableau Server, and Tableau Public.
Project Tree in VizPortal
Get a better and faster experience navigating to your Tableau projects. Project Tree view is an optional navigation style that has been added to the Vizportal interface. This view is enabled by default, so users who have many projects nested several levels deep can easily browse through their projects in Tableau Cloud, Server, Desktop, and Public.
Feature from Community Ideas
Recycle Bin
Have you ever accidentally deleted something and wanted to get it back? We all have. Tableau Server and Cloud customers can access deleted workbooks, data sources, or projects through the Recycle Bin area for 30 days - it is enabled by default. All users will see their deleted content, and site admins can see all deleted content from all users on the site. You can restore the content in the bin to a specified location in Tableau Cloud and Server.
Feature from Community Ideas
Tableau Prep Query Logging in Resource Monitoring
Easily identify when Tableau prep flow run times increase and determine whether different queries are being run or whether the same queries are taking longer. This information is now available to Tableau Server adminis through the Resource Monitoring Tool to effectively troubleshoot problems quickly.
* Requires Tableau Enterprise License
Server to Cloud Migration SDK Enhancements
The Cloud Migration SDK is a toolbox for developers to build and customize their migration applications to their specific needs. You can now automatically migrate embedded credentials and subscriptions with the existing supported content types, decreasing room for error and time required.
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External Token for SCIM with Connected Apps
Using Connected Apps, admins can bypass the SCIM token that Tableau generates and instead use the token generated by their IdP. The SCIM bearer token that is produced by Tableau (aka as an API token) is no longer needed for SCIM requests in Tableau Cloud.
Decouple Email Address from Username
Admins can enable Tableau Cloud users to update their email for notification purposes. Users may no longer have access to their stale email address's inbox or have been created with a username pointing to an unresolvable inbox. By decoupling the username and email address fields, users can keep updated to receive important notifications from Tableau Cloud.
Expanded Extract Refresh Permissions
Avoid changing ownership and losing embedded credentials when an admin or a workbook owner is unavailable for immediate response. Admins and owners can edit the permission rules for a selected asset and grant others extract refresh privileges, and users can opt-in for extract failure notifications within a workbook. Allowing users to refresh a data source when it gets used will allow you to eliminate unnecessary refreshes for infrequently used data sources.
Custom Themes
Ensure consistent and repeatable formatting across all your workbooks. Create a theme once and reuse it when building new workbooks or apply it to existing workbooks to quickly update them; the newly created custom theme will carry over once published to Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server. You can use any existing workbook as the template and 'export' the styling as a theme. Then, apply that custom theme to any other workbook. This new functionality is available under the Format menu in Tableau Desktop.
Table Viz Extension Enhancement
You can add Table Viz Extension to a workbook through the Tableau Exchange. The new enhancements allow creators to reorganize columns directly and edit aliases on text columns. Further formatting controls allow for customizing the grid's fill, lines, and banding more directly amongst some of the added flexibility of this viz. Table Viz Extension also supports a broader range of keyboard navigation, enabling the selection of headers and columns and an added array of hotkeys for navigation in Tableay Cloud, Tableau Server, and Tableau Public.
Activity Log on Tableau Cloud Manager
Meet security and auditing compliance requirements by monitoring actions that can enact privilege changes within the Tableau Cloud platform. Tableau Cloud Manager admins can automate the regular export of activity log files through the new REST API via scripts or automation tools, making it easier than ever to integrate with monitoring and SIEM platforms.
Accessibility Settings
You can personalize your Tableau experience by deciding whether informational product alerts automatically dismiss or dismiss them but need more time to read and understand the content.
Tableau Cloud Private Connect
Connect your AWS data to Tableau Cloud using the AWS Private Link for a secure, dedicated, and private connection that avoids exposure to the public internet. Admins can set up and configure AWS Private Link to their AWS accounts through the Tableau Cloud Manager.
Dutch Language Support
Users in Dutch-speaking regions and navigate Tableau in their native Language. Simply go to the Help menu and choose Language setting for Desktop - My Account Settings, Language and Region setting for Tableau Cloud and Server- to navigate Tableau products and Help pages in Dutch!
Tableau Cloud Release Preview
Get advanced access to functionality changes in Tableau Cloud and understand how changes will impact your unique content, usage, and users before changes get applied to critical business content. Admins can select the Release Preview - US West region when creating a site to get access to changes in functionality ~3+ weeks in advance of other Tableau Cloud sites.
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Tableau Cloud Manager Authentication Enhancements
Two authentication enhancements are available in Tableau Cloud Manager. First, admins can configure their IdP with SAML or OIDC protocol so they sign in with the same IdP to both their tenant and their sites. Second, admins get even more control by being able to reset MFA verifiers for other single tenant users -regardless of whether they belong to more than one site in the tenant- and manage their MFA verifiers directly in Tableau Cloud Manager instead of handling them on the site level.
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