Tableau 2025.2 is coming soon

Show Me 2.0

Tableau’s classic Show Me just got even better. With an improved experience designed to help users get started faster, all visualisation types are now available upfront – no need to select fields first. This update lowers the barrier to entry for new users by making it easier to explore data or let Tableau suggest a starting point. It’s the same trusted feature, now even more intuitive and welcoming.

Dynamic colour ranges

Dynamic colour ranges help you highlight what matters, even with outliers in your data. Instead of filtering, use parameters to adjust your colour scale and focus attention where it counts. It’s a fast, flexible way to keep your charts clear and insightful.

Dynamic spatial parameters

With dynamic spatial parameters, you can filter data by map viewport, use the zoom to scale marks and keep multiple maps in sync – all without reloading.

Tableau Pulse: Enhanced Q&A – metric filtering and comparisons

Unlock what's driving your business performance through freeform, conversational questions. Analyse and compare data through dimensions in a fully conversational experience.

Tableau Pulse: Enhanced Q&A – multilingual support

Enhance scalability and reduce misinterpretation of your business by asking questions in your preferred language. Explore insights in your local language, regardless of what’s used in the company data or site settings.

Tableau Pulse: Custom calendar

Ensure you’re analysing relevant information by customising calendar dates. Match specific business reporting needs with custom calendar definitions rather than the standard Gregorian calendar.

Tableau Pulse: Certify metric definitions

Discern which metrics can be trusted to help users make informed business decisions. A green icon displayed in the Pulse experience provides additional context, certifying that the given metric is trusted and recommended.

Tableau Pulse: Configure decimal places

Manually adjust how many places to round to for Pulse metric values.

Tableau Pulse: Custom daily comparison

Ensure data relevance by comparing specific dates in Pulse metrics. Tailoring the comparison to a date, rather than standard time ranges, allows users to accurately compare changes to their data.

Tableau Pulse: Mute metrics from Insight Summary

Focus metrics in Insight Summaries to highlight what's most important and mute less critical metrics to not appear. Users can continue to track muted metrics to keep tabs on the information in their Pulse experience.

Tableau Pulse: Filtering in Mobile

Understand data in specific dimensions to make more informed decisions by applying filters to Pulse metrics. View additional dimensions or apply exclusions to double-click into the results.

Trusted viz extension on Public

Safely experiment with partner-built visualisations to bolster your storytelling. Viz extensions branded as trusted in Tableau Exchange will be available for use in Tableau Public.

Profile organisation: Manual categorisation

Take control of how visualisations appear on your profile. Group vizzes into categories as you see fit to build out your portfolio with full autonomy.

Content Exploration Hub: Recommender tab

A one-stop shop for relevant and inspirational content. A centralised place for users to discover content, access learning resources and connect with the DataFam.

Author empowerment quick wins

Build connections and grow your community like never before with improved visibility. Authors can grow their following and see who has interacted with their visualizations. And the author preview card makes it easy to navigate and discover author profiles.

Multiple external IdPs for SCIM on a site

Provision users and groups to Tableau using your identity provider (IdP) as the source of truth. Tableau now has multiple-IdP support for authentication, supporting user and group provisioning scenarios through the standards-compliant SCIM 2.0 feature. Admins can enable up to 20 IdPs for SCIM on a site to establish a connection between their IdP and Tableau Cloud site.

Tableau app for Google Workspace

Reduce unnecessary processes with a new version of the Tableau app for Google Workspace. It provides a native Tableau interface within Google Docs and Google Slides, so with one click, you can embed vizzes or Pulse metrics and refresh the content when you need it. This free app is available to all Tableau Cloud customers.

Private Connect: Additional connectors

Enhance your security by keeping the connection to data private and off the public internet. Tableau Cloud customers can now connect their AWS-hosted databases, such as PGSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, OracleDB and Aurora, to Tableau Cloud using the AWS Private Link, which provides a secure, dedicated and private connection, avoiding exposure to the public internet.

Additionally, Private Connect can have cross-region connectivity for Redshift, PGSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, OracleDB and Aurora. It also offers virtual connection support.

Session recovery improvements

Tableau has extended offline visualisation interactivity for users during session recovery, even for large vizzes. Minimise downtime, especially in time-sensitive scenarios like presentations, and avoid getting error banners. When offline and reconnecting, a new button will replace the "Offline" indicator in the toolbar, allowing you to continue offline interactions. The button will inform you of the reconnect status, while interactions requiring server commands will be disabled until the connection is restored.

Admin Insights: Expanded availability

Access Admin Insights for sites created under the Developer, Tableau for Teaching or partner programmes whenever you need them to monitor and improve customer success and adoption for these additional sites. The Admin Insights data sources and workbooks will automatically be deployed to these additional site types – no need to contact Tableau.

Admin Insights: Schedule details

Admins can see dashboard subscription schedules and determine which should be moved to another time of day to alleviate congestion. The additional fields describing the pertinent schedule information for each subscription are available in the Subscriptions data source in Admin Insights, allowing admins to analyse it and take actions.

Performance insights dashboard

Analyse dashboard performance with a new built-in report that quickly provides dashboard insights in a user-friendly Tableau Cloud interface. Admins can now filter by specific workbooks and analyse which visualisations impact load times to identify and troubleshoot slow-performing dashboards.

New Activity Log events: View interactions

A new Activity Log event, vizql_http_requests, allows Tableau Cloud admins to monitor dashboard performance in real time to ensure an optimal user experience, data exports to meet security and compliance needs, and user interactions with dashboards to understand usage patterns. The Activity Log can be configured via the Site Settings page by provisioning an AWS S3 bucket and configuring the Activity Log to write log files. These new events will appear in the user_experience eventCategory folder.

Databricks connector updates

Enhancements to the Databricks connector bring improved security with OAuth and refresh tokens, plus faster SQL optimisations. Connect, refresh and model your Databricks data with less friction and more reliability.

Flow ownership changes in Tableau Prep

With flow ownership changes, admins or current owners can pass control to others with just a couple clicks, avoiding the hassle of waiting for flow runs to finish. Plus, you can cancel in-progress runs whenever needed, making flow management more flexible and stress-free.

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: Concierge

Concierge, an Agentforce skill, enables you to ask questions and receive trusted, actionable answers in natural language with visual insights. It helps Agentforce quickly get insights, drill down deeper and ultimately make faster, more informed decisions.

Tableau Next: Metric record table

Gain clarity and act swiftly on your metrics. Analysts can now empower users to view the specific records influencing any given metric. This streamlined workflow allows immediate action directly within Salesforce, ensuring teams can address issues or capitalise on opportunities without switching tools.

Tableau Next: Dynamic time range for following

Gain deeper insights by comparing your followed metrics within a consistent time frame. Users can now easily adjust the time range for any of their followed metrics, allowing for quick trend comparisons across different datasets. This feature provides natural language summaries of changes, helping you quickly spot discrepancies and trends for more informed decisions.

Tableau Next: System event notifications

Stay on top of important sharing and collaboration events with timely notifications. Users will receive alerts when they're added as a follower to a metric or when other key events happen. By clicking the notification, they are taken directly to the relevant content, improving engagement and streamlining collaboration.

Tableau Next: Workspaces

Boost your efficiency with an integrated and collaborative experience for analytics content creation. Workspaces provide analysts with a centralised hub where you have access to all the tools necessary to perform your visual analysis. Easily reuse existing assets from other workspaces, allowing you to streamline your workflow and accelerate productivity.

Tableau Next: Sharing of analytics assets

Foster seamless collaboration and drive content adoption with easy, controlled sharing of your analytics assets. Content owners can effortlessly manage access to workspaces, visualisations, dashboards and semantic models using a simple Share button. While new content is secure by default, this feature allows creators to get feedback and share their work broadly.

Tableau Next: Time series forecast

Proactively plan and take action by anticipating future data trends. Analysts can now easily add forecasts to line charts using a single measure and date field, leveraging advanced Ridge-regression and Holt-Winters models. This helps users estimate future outcomes based on historical values, enabling better planning.

Tableau Next: Embeddable dashboards and metrics in Salesforce

View your crucial insights directly within your Salesforce workflow, eliminating context switching. Easily embed Tableau Next dashboards and standalone metric cards into Salesforce Lightning pages using the Lightning App Builder. Admins can define contextual filters to ensure insights align with the page and business context, increasing visibility and keeping you in your flow of work.

Tableau Next: Actionable insights

Speed up decisions and reduce friction by acting on insights directly within your workflow. Analysts can now configure actions on visualisation records, whether they’re Salesforce actions or dynamic URLs that leverage values from the visualisation. This lets users seamlessly connect with underlying Salesforce records or navigate to relevant URLs, using the context of the record being viewed.

Tableau Next: Take actions with Salesforce Flow

Seamlessly transition from data to action by triggering workflows directly from your insights. Analysts can now integrate Salesforce Flows into their dashboards, passing records from a visualisation as input to the flow. This allows users to initiate necessary next steps and automate processes with minimal context switching, speeding up decision-making.

Tableau Next: Agent Analytics App

Make data-driven investment decisions and continuously optimise your AI agents by gaining complete, transparent insights into their usage and effectiveness. Leverage out-of-the-box analytics covering all agent types, from service to sales coaches, empowering leaders to allocate resources effectively and continually improve agent performance, topics and actions with confidence.

In pilot

Tableau Next: Pace-to-goal insight

Gain instant clarity on goal progress with forecasting. Visualise your pace towards goals and leverage confidence intervals to anticipate outcomes, empowering timely strategy adjustments.

Tableau Next: Manual metric goal

Align your teams and drive measurable results by setting clear, customised goals directly on your sub-metrics, with instant visibility into progress and status.

Tableau semantics: Data lake object support

Unlock instant insights from any dataset by directly creating semantic models on your files – bypassing data model objects for rapid analysis and trusted answers.

Tableau semantics: Shared dimensions

Build agile, consistent and scalable semantic models faster by sharing dimensions across all your fact tables.

Tableau semantics: Semantic learning

Continuously enhance agent accuracy and build user trust.This AI-driven capability expands agent knowledge through real-time Q&A and integrates your unique business preferences through a centralised repository, ensuring increasingly relevant and precise responses.

Pulse: Threshold tracking

Track your metrics against key thresholds, not just end-of-period goals, and get insights based on that real-time positioning.

Tableau Pulse: Manage Metric Followers on Mobile

Manage metric followers directly on your mobile device, guaranteeing you and your team can easily share updates and drive collaborative action, wherever you are.

Pulse: Off-cycle email alert

Receive off-cycle email alerts of critical metrics, up to one per day if an alert condition is present, so you can stay up to date when regular digests are set to a weekly or monthly cadence.

RelayState parameter support for SAML login

When using the IdP-initiated login flow, Tableau now preserves the RelayState parameter that the IdP provides to land on a direct viz, not on the default Tableau Cloud home page. It allows you to provide a streamlined workflow to your users so they can immediately access what's important to them. 

Note: Coming soon after the Tableau 2025.2 release.