A List of Tableau Features Since 2019

Create your own Data Roles to get automatic data validation, and share them in Tableau Server so others can easily standardize their data too.

Filter your personalized Tableau Public activity feed by toggling between activity type. Favorites are now grouped together for the same viz.

We’re making it faster to navigate larger, complex workbooks that contain multiple sheets. Easily view and jump to all locations in a workbook (dashboards, stories) where a worksheet is used.

Now, through a partnership with Alibaba, Tableau customers will be able to natively connect and analyze data in MaxCompute, AnalyticDB, or Data Lake Analytics.

Now you can do all your data preparation for Google BigQuery in Tableau Prep with this new connector.

Create a step to run an R or Python script in Tableau Prep Builder, taking advantage of your data science workflows.

The Hyper API contains a set of functions you can use to automate your interactions with Tableau extract (.hyper) files. You can use the API to create new extract files, or to open existing extract files, and then insert, delete, update, or read data from those files.

Connect to published data sources with Prep Builder and Prep Conductor, so you can build flows with all the data in your Tableau environment.

Customers running Tableau Server on Linux now have the option to run using the Debian 9.0+ distribution.

Quickly and easily publish embedded data sources from workbooks to share with your team.

Improvements to web authoring continue with the ability to create context filters and dependent filters in the browser to help drive the performance of your workbook.

Find what you're looking for faster. Now your search results will be laid out on a newly redesigned search results page. See all your results by views, workbooks, data sources, flows, and other content types.

Embed Ask Data into your company portal or Wiki, and you can enable even more people in your organization to be asking questions of their data.

Spatial file support has arrived to web authoring. Connect to KML, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, and zipped shapefiles to better understand and share your location analysis on the web. End to end geospatial analysis, all without leaving the browser.

Share more easily with a simplified share experience. Share projects, workbooks, data sources, views and flows through Tableau Online and Tableau Server.

For additional security you can now encrypt your extracts at rest. You can also think of this as object-level encryption. It’s easy to use—simply toggle it on per extract or enable at the site level. Tableau Online is already fully encrypted at the service level.

Italian is now available as a language option, making Tableau feel more familiar for Italian speakers.

Explain Data automatically provides AI-driven explanations for unexpected values in your data with a single click. Available as you’re creating a viz or dashboard, Explain Data uses powerful Bayesian methods to surface statistically significant explanations behind data points. Behind the scenes, hundreds of potential explanations are checked and the most likely ones are surfaced. Every explanation is a viz that can be explored with the full power of Tableau, keeping you in your analytical flow as you dive deeper into your data.

Advanced Management for Tableau Server gives organizations running Tableau Server at scale greater manageability and control over their deployment. We’re making it easier to streamline management processes and run large, mission-critical Tableau Server deployments. This new offering provides AWS KMS integration, new performance monitoring and content management apps, and additional scalability capabilities for Tableau Server.

Consolidate your workflows with the option to receive a PDF attachment with your subscription to a dashboard. You can select to attach an image, PDF, or PDF and image, which will land in your inbox as part of your regular subscription email.

With Tableau Catalog you get a complete view of all of the data being used by Tableau, and how it is connected to your analytics – including lineage, impact analysis and usage metrics. Increase the trust and discoverability of the right data for everyone in your organization. Tableau Catalog is part of the Data Management Add-on.

For customers using Spark, you can now take full advantage of the innovation of Databricks as a native connector. Available for Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.

Select relevant, specific dashboards to integrate into your presentations. You now have the option to select which sheets, dashboards, or stories to export to PowerPoint.

Optimize your joins. You can now control if your join is executed in Hyper, or the source database. Control this option from Tableau Desktop or at the site level in Tableau Server or Tableau Online.

New in web authoring: Update to context filters on the web. Quickly identify and change filters between context and dependent without leaving the browser. Cancel long-running queries so you can move on to the next task faster.

You can now easily measure the distance between two points, perfect for measuring the length of flight or shipping routes or driving proximity analysis around a store or hub.

You can now set the ISO-8601 calendar so your date parts default to the iso-equivalent of year, quarter, week, and weekday for better calendar-based analysis.

Parameter actions just got more powerful with three new aggregation functions: first quartile, third quartile, and concatenation. You also now have the option to create new parameters directly from the parameter action dialog.

Add hashtags to your Tableau Public profile and viz descriptions for better discoverability in search. Click on a hashtag to view related content.

You can now convert projected coordinates for locations, which might be in feet or meters, into latitudes and longitudes that Tableau can visualize and use in spatial joins. For instance, the Seattle Police Department logs location data using a local projection in US Feet, and can now use MakePoint to convert it directly into useable lat/long coordinates.

Edit and save any of your Tableau Public vizzes directly in your browser. Any changes will be automatically updated in all embedded locations.

You now have the ability to save vizzes from the Tableau Public gallery to your personal collection of favorites, making them easily accessible when searching for inspiration.

The Tableau Server Management Add-on gives organizations running Tableau Server at scale greater manageability and control over their deployment. We’re making it easier to streamline management processes and run large, mission-critical Tableau Server deployments. This new offering provides AWS KMS integration, new performance monitoring and content management apps, and additional scalability capabilities for Tableau Server.

With Tableau Catalog you get a complete view of all of the data being used by Tableau, and how it is connected to your analytics – including lineage, impact analysis and usage metrics. Increase the trust and discoverability of the right data for everyone in your organization. Tableau Catalog is part of the Data Management Add-on.

Explain Data automatically provides AI-driven explanations for unexpected values in your data with a single click. Available as you’re creating a viz or dashboard, Explain Data uses powerful Bayesian methods to surface statistically significant explanations behind data points. Behind the scenes, hundreds of potential explanations are checked and the most likely ones are surfaced. Every explanation is a viz that can be explored with the full power of Tableau, keeping you in your analytical flow as you dive deeper into your data.

See and understand data in your local language. All Tableau products are now available in localized versions for Traditional Chinese and English (UK).

Keeping your flow in a step by step process that makes sense to you, makes it easier for you to find just what you're looking for. With this feature, you'll be able to rearrange the steps on the flow canvas so it stays in line with the way you think.

Connect to databases or files that don't have direct connections to Tableau Prep using an ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) connector.

Quickly start prepping the data you need, and remove the data you don't with just a few clicks. "Keep Only" the columns you want.

JDBCEnjoy better memory utilization, faster initial connections, and improved query performance with our JDBC connector enhancements.AthenaYou can now connect to your data in Amazon S3 with the new Athena connector.

See and understand your flow resourcing needs with admin views of flow runs. Know when you need to put more resources toward concurrently running flows.

JDBCEnjoy better memory utilization, faster initial connections, and improved query performance with our JDBC connector enhancements.SAP HanaOur enhanced SAP Hana connector lets you see views inside HDI containers.ServiceNow ITSMYou can now connect to on premises Service Now deployments.MarketoYou can now access more tables with our improved connector.Microsoft Azure SQL Data WarehouseWe now support Azure Active Directory username and password authentication.

You can now export stories to PowerPoint, creating a presentation-ready deck in seconds. Each story point, as you have customized in Tableau, will appear as one slide.

Enjoy a richer mapping experience with vector-based maps. Maps will look even sharper and feel even smoother, as you pan, zoom in, and zoom out to explore your geospatial data. Enjoy updated dark, normal, and light default styles, ACS demographic data, and for authors, new map styles and layers available right out of the box.

We're making Ask Data feel even more conversational. Now you can add, remove, or replace statements with follow-up phrases. Adding calculations, such as the sum, difference, and the ratio of two measures is as simple as typing "avg sales / avg profit". Plus with the ability to create multiple sheets, you can build full dashboards from Ask Data generated vizzes. All of these enhancements make it easier to get answers from your data.

Tableau Server and Tableau Online site admins can now set a start page for the entire site, controlling where all users land when signing-in.

Arrive to a new home page on Tableau Server and Online that displays personally relevant content upfront. A new left navigation makes it easy to quickly access favorites and recents, and discover new content through popular views. Additionally, a welcome screen will walk new users through specific actions based on their role.

Now you can create and edit parameters, which are dynamic values for calcs, filters and reference lines in the browser and stay in the flow of your analysis.

Subscribe yourself to existing data-driven alerts. A new view shows all alerts that already exist for the viz you are viewing. Adding yourself or others is easy—just select “Add Me.”

Build visualizations using the Python language for advanced analytics and machine learning in a secure environment. This allows TabPy to be hosted remotely from Tableau Server, and for data to be protected in transit.

As a Viewer, you can save private, custom views in dashboards you care about, filtered to the information you want to see. Jump back in and get the information you need, quickly and easily every time.

Maximize screen real estate with the flexibility to toggle between visible or hidden for any floating container on your dashboard. Streamline what content viewers see, such as customizing instructions, filters, or legends to be hidden when they are no longer useful.

Authors can now preserve the sort order they’ve set on their worksheet by disabling the ability to one-click sort. Rest assured that end-users are always interacting with your data as you intended, for the best dashboard experience.

You can now replace an existing worksheet in a dashboard with a new worksheet from the sheet list, with a single click. Dashboard spacing, dimensions, and aspect ratios are all smartly preserved, for a faster and more precise authoring experience.

You now have the option to customize tooltips for reference lines, bands, and distributions. Edit the tooltip text, or choose to disable the tooltip altogether.

You will now be able to use spatial data directly from a PostgreSQL or Pivotal Greenplum database with the PostGIS extension. No need to export or pre-process the data before diving into it in Tableau. And perform more advanced spatial analysis with the ability to now leverage the spatial operations supported by the database.

You can now easily create two-point origin-destination maps, perfect for making flight maps of airline routes.

You now have the ability to visually change a parameter’s value. Use parameter actions to drive reference lines, calculations, filters, and SQL queries simply by interacting with marks on a viz, bringing visual interactivity to your data like never before.

You can now turn latitude/longitude values from text files, excel, or any data source into spatial fields and use them in spatial joins. With MakePoint, you can spatially enable text files and excel spreadsheets, making it easer to spatially aggregate your data.

Arrive to a new home page on Tableau Server and Online that displays personally relevant content upfront. A new left navigation makes it easy to quickly access favorites and recents, and discover new content through popular views. Additionally, a welcome screen will walk new users through specific actions based on their role.

You now have the ability to visually change a parameter’s value. Use parameter actions to drive reference lines, calculations, filters, and SQL queries simply by interacting with marks on a viz, bringing visual interactivity to your data like never before.

Enjoy a richer mapping experience with vector-based maps. Maps will look even sharper and feel even smoother, as you pan, zoom in, and zoom out to explore your geospatial data. Enjoy updated dark, normal, and light default styles, ACS demographic data, and for authors, new map styles and layers available right out of the box.

Organizations are now able to deploy a special version of Tableau Mobile that is compatible with the VMware Workspace ONE Platform, powered by AirWatch technology.

We're excited to introduce a redesigned version of Tableau Mobile for iOS and Android. The new app brings powerful search, an improved Favorites experience, and interactive offline previews right to your fingertips.

We're streamlining the connector driver experience for Linux. Now manage Linux connector drivers via uberrpm and S3.

Now display views that are within HDI containers.

Connect directly to your data stored in Azure SQL Data Warehouse with our new connector.

Build visualizations using the R statistical language in a secure environment. This allows RServe to be hosted remotely from Tableau Server, and for data to be protected in transit.

Gain deeper insights from your Google Ads data. Connect and analyze your Google ad metrics in Tableau with our new connector.

Discover a new way to browse on Tableau Server and Tableau Online. You can now view data sources, workbooks, and views from one project all on the same page. And, filter by content type within that project.

Integrate your Tableau dashboards directly into presentations with a single click. Now you can easily export vizzes from Tableau Desktop, Server, or Online to PowerPoint as high resolution images, complete with a link back to the workbook.

Connect directly to your excel and CSV files stored in Dropbox, OneDrive and GoogleDrive when authoring a viz from the browser.

Ask a question, get an answer. Use natural language to ask questions and produce insights directly from any published data source. Ask Data supports many analytical capabilities of Tableau, including sorting, filtering and aggregations.Ask Data only supports questions asked in English.

Tableau Prep Conductor, a new add-on product for Tableau Online and Tableau Server, empowers IT departments, data stewards and analysts to consistently deliver prepared data in a scalable, reliable and secure server environment.Tableau Prep Conductor is part of the Data Management Add-on available now for Tableau Server and in limited release for Tableau Online.

We’ve significantly improved the Snowflake connection experience. The Snowflake Connector is now available across our entire platform and we have added native OAuth integration for both security and convenience.

Authoring mobile dashboard layouts just got easier. Tableau will now automatically add phone layouts to new dashboards, with ability to further customize them for specific use cases.

Url actions can now target specific web zones in a dashboard, allowing authors the control to more seamlessly link to information that is hosted outside of their data source. Better integrate and add more meaningful content to your dashboard, and design more sophisticated app-like experiences.

Device dashboard design just got easier. You can now preview what your laptop, tablet, and phone layouts will look like directly in the desktop browser. Make any necessary formatting or content adjustments to your dashboards, and save knowing your mobile layouts are pixel perfect.

You now have the ability to assign a name to any item on a dashboard, helping to better organize multiple zones when looking at the layout tree.

Sorting just got more intuitive. You can now sort within multiple dimensions, making it easy to spot trends in your categorical data.