Tableau August 2025 Release

Tableau Next and Slack Integrations

Accelerate team collaboration and decision-making. Seamlessly share insights from Tableau Next directly into Slack, without embedding or copying code, empowering users to instantly act on data and analysts to gain faster feedback for quicker time to value.

Tableau Next: "Add to" Dashboard from Viz Builder

Easily add a completed visualization to the dashboard of choice in just a couple of clicks, directly from the visualization builder. Speed up dashboard authoring with faster and more user-friendly experience.

Tableau Next: Data Pro

Data Pro, an Agentforce skill, accelerates analytics workflows such as data preparation and modelling. In the near term, Data Pro will include semantic model curation capabilities: relationship suggestions and calculated field creation.

Data Pro will be available in beta.

Tableau Next: Define Continuous Colors

Easily distinguish trends, outliers, and patterns by applying custom colors to continuous values in visualizations. This allows for dynamic visualization of trends, like customer sentiment over time, enabling quicker analysis and strategic adjustments.

Tableau Next: Enhanced Color Picker

Improve chart readability and speed analysis by easily customizing chart colors. Assign discrete colors to dimensions and continuous gradients to measures to help distinguish data types, gain clearer insights, and follow visualization best practices.

Tableau Next: Fiscal Calendar Support

Gain precise financial insights by leveraging Tableau Semantics' fiscal calendar support, enabling seamless aggregation, filtering, and calculations based on your specific fiscal periods. Group metrics like Sales, Leads, Defect Rates, and Scheduled Deliveries by fiscal timeframes, ensuring insights perfectly align with business reporting for accurate decision-making.

Tableau Next: Metrics Year Over Year Comparison

Instantly understand your business performance relative to prior years. With Year over Year comparisons available by default, effortlessly identify seasonal trends and broader performance shifts at a glance, enabling more meaningful insights into your metrics.

Tableau Public: New Welcome Modal

Discover Tableau Public with ease! At first login, seamlessly explore core functionalities like profile curation and the 'Hire Me' button. Users can dismiss it at will or choose 'Remind Me Later,' opting to postpone the modal to their next session. This intuitive onboarding experience aims to decrease the barrier to entry and help users feel supported.

Tableau Public: Search Improvements

Tableau Public's search bar is now more easily accessible by being right at the top of the screen, no matter where you navigate. It's easy to spot, helping you find content quicker and easier so you can browse without distractions.

Tableau Pulse: Breakdown Chart Enhancements

Get deeper insights into your metrics. Enhancements to breakdown charts now reveal how specific dimensions are driving your metrics toward goals or thresholds, empowering you to make more informed business decisions.

Tableau Pulse: Metric definitions browsing enhancements

Navigate your growing catalog of metric definitions with ease. Enhancements to the Browse Metrics list lets you search, sort by certified status, and even by the number of metrics, ensuring you quickly and easily find the definition you need.

Tableau Pulse: Off-Cycle Slack Alerts

Catch critical insights in Slack. Now, you'll get Slack notifications (up to one per day) for triggered metric alerts, even if you get your digest weekly or monthly.

Tableau Pulse: Threshold Alerts

Stay informed when your metrics cross into an unfavorable threshold range. Now, when a metric enters this critical range, Pulse will reflect this with alerts displayed in web, email, and mobile.

Tableau Semantics: Analytics Agent Readiness

Boost trust and reliability in agent responses by empowering semantic data model creators with a readiness flag, enabling them to control models used for Concierge, ensure alignment with best practices, and deliver accurate insights.

Tableau Semantics: Guided Onboarding

Accelerate your semantic data modeling and time to value with intuitive, step-by-step guidance on building and exploring semantic data models.

Tableau Semantics: Share SDM

Empower agility while maintaining data integrity with secure, easy-to-manage semantic model access. Semantic models are secure by default (owner-accessible only), allowing content owners to use a simple Share button to grant permission-aware access for collaboration viewing, ensuring only approved users see your data.