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When moving to the cloud, server admins often worry about losing control. We’re here to tell you that’s not so.

Many of you have told us you’d like to create new geographic data using the data built into the geocoding database. And I am excited to announce you can do just that in Tableau 10 with our new custom territories!

From individual databases to cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment options, the data landscape is a labyrinth of choice.

We have exciting news: You can now connect directly to Cisco Information Server (formerly Composite) and Kognitio from Tableau!

We are happy to announce Tableau Server is certified for use in Google Compute Engine. This means Tableau customers who want to host Tableau Server in the cloud now have the option to host it with Google.

VizAlerts is a free-to-use-as-is, open-source tool that works a lot like subscriptions do. Subscribe to your viz on a schedule, and if there’s any data in your view when it runs, you get an email. If there isn’t, you don’t. Conditional subscriptions, rule-based alerts, push notifications, report bursting – VizAlerts can do it all on Tableau Server. You can create conditions in your alerts simply by filtering out what you don’t want to know about.

WDCs can be used for more than just fetching data. Because it’s a web-based technology, you can use WDCs to trigger external processes such as ETL workflows.

We’re thrilled to bring you one of our most requested features of all time. In Tableau 10, you can filter across multiple data sources!

I recently saw an article posted by Alberto Cairo in which someone had built a map of Scotland using tile maps built of Sankey diagrams. I thought it was pretty cool, so I wanted to be able to do something similar in Tableau.

I used to think iterating was overrated, always striving to produce the goods as soon as possible with as few tries as possible. That was until I started to participate in Makeover Monday, an initiative run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave.

Learn how to set schedules, manage refresh tasks, and ensure your end users are always seeing the most up-to-date data in Tableau Online.