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Seattle’s own Ballard High School won the international FIRST Robotics Competition. Learn how the team used Tableau in strategizing their way to victory.

You already know Tableau is great for exploring and analyzing data, but did you know you can also use Tableau to create a robust project management tool? All you have to do is build a Gantt chart.

In this release, we’re getting the right data in front of the right people, across the enterprise. Data source certifications help organizations promote the best sources for teams to use. They work seamlessly with our expanded recommendations for data sources, which leverage machine learning to suggest optimal data sources for your specific analysis. You’ll feel confident exploring data whose quality and relevance is guaranteed.

With Tableau 10.3, we’re helping you better scale and manage analytics across the business. From data-driven alerts that keep go-to metrics in your back pocket to improved extensibility for APIs, discover how the Tableau platform brings trusted, actionable data to everyone in your organization.

Tableau 10.3 helps you analyze data from more sources with a slew of connectors (Amazon Athena, PDF, and more) and smart data prep capabilities. Plus, finding the right data for your analysis just got easier with table and join recommendations powered by machine learning. Stay on top of your changing business wherever you are with features like data-driven alerts, web authoring improvements, and story editing in the browser—to name a few.

Tableau 10.3 beta is ready for testing, so we're giving you the inside scoop on our new features. Join the Pre-Release Program to keep up with the latest and greatest, like the Tableau Bridge, tooltip selection, and more. Our engineering team is excited to get your feedback as you put this release to the test.

“We want to empower the business to be successful, and we don’t want IT to be a roadblock. As server admins, we can help end users be more successful and make that a seamless process,” said Michael Perillo of Charles Schwab.

If everything’s bigger in Texas, and Austin keeps it weird, then it comes as no surprise that this year’s Tableau Conference has been the biggest and best yet. Some 13,000 of you came, registered, schedule (scouted), and you conquered. From the 400+ sessions to the Iron Viz Championship, people everywhere were seeing and understanding data in new ways.

Twenty minutes to the start of the Iron Viz competition, the energy in Viz Stadium was palpable. As the music blared and lights flashed, the same question was on every person’s mind: Who will be crowned 2016’s Iron Viz champion?