Tableau 2025.2
Concierge, Semantic Learning, Tableau App for Google Workspace and more
Concierge
Ask questions in natural language and get trusted, on-demand answers, including root causes and recommended next-best actions. Concierge is a pre-built Agentforce skill from Tableau Next that enables you to ask questions and receive trusted, actionable answers in natural language with visual insights so you can make faster, more informed decisions and take action.
Semantic Learning
Receive more accurate, trustworthy responses from agents by expanding their knowledge through real-time Q&A, while efficiently managing business preferences and existing knowledge in a centralized repository. You’re able to provide agents with business context specific to your organization to help agents understand how to respond to questions about your business with trusted, relevant answers.
Tableau App for Google Workspace
Improve data-driven decision-making by delivering insights where you need them. Embed vizzes and Tableau Pulse metrics in your Google Docs and Google Slides in one click and refresh anytime. This seamless experience, available to all Tableau Cloud customers, enables smooth connectivity between workstreams, giving teams the ability to collaborate with trusted, data-driven insights.
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Dynamic Spatial Parameters
Sync, zoom, and pan across multiple maps for deeper dynamic geospatial analysis. With responsive spatial parameters, you can filter data by map viewport, scale marks based on zoom level, and keep multiple maps in sync—all without reloading.
Performance Insights Dashboard
Speed up performance issue resolution. Admins can now analyze dashboard performance with a new built-in report that quickly provides dashboard insights in an easy-to-use interface directly in the Cloud. Filter by specific workbooks and analyze which visualizations impact load times to quickly identify and troubleshoot slow-performing dashboards.
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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 visualization 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 Color Ranges
Dynamic Color Ranges help you highlight what matters, even with outliers in your data. Instead of filtering, use parameters to adjust your color scale and focus attention where it counts. It’s a fast, flexible way to keep your charts clear and insightful.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Dynamic Colors throughout Tableau.
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.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Synchronizing multiple map views. It also addresses [1], [2], [3].
Tableau Pulse: Enhanced Q&A - Metric Filtering and Comparisons
Unlock what's driving your business performance through free form, conversational questions. Analyze and compare data through dimensions in a fully conversational experience.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Allow filtering on Pulse Metrics.
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 is used in the company data or site settings.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Tableau Pulse support for other languages.
Tableau Agent: Incremental Improvements
The latest Tableau Agent has been enhanced to better meet user needs and optimize the experience across the analytics journey with improvements to areas like suggested questions and follow-up suggestions. Tableau Agent is also now available in French Canadian and Korean.
Trusted Viz Extension on Public
Safely experiment with partner built visualizations to bolster your storytelling. Viz extensions branded as trusted in Tableau Exchange will be available for use in Tableau Public.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Viz Extensions on Tableau Public.
Profile Organization: Manual Categorization
Take control of how visualizations appear on your profile. Group vizzes into categories as you see fit to build out your portfolio with full autonomy.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Projects in Tableau Public.
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.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: More followers allowed for Tableau Public.
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.
As a part of this, admins can also make the most of the new REST APIs to programmatically configure SCIM on their site(s).
Note that these REST APIs will come soon after Tableau 2025.2 release.
Tableau Exchange + Tableau Cloud
The following Tableau Exchange connectors are now compatible with Tableau Bridge: MotherDuck/DuckDB, dbt Semantic Layer, and StarRocks.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Read Duckdb embedded database.
Palantir Foundry Connector
The Palantir Foundry connector and driver are now available out-of-the-box in Tableau Cloud, making Palantir Foundry available for web authoring and enabling published workbooks, data sources, and flows to connect without Bridge.
Available via Bridge June 2025
Arriving as a native connector in Summer 2025
Single Use Refresh Tokens
Tableau now handles single-use refresh tokens to optimize users’ data connectivity experience for Box.com and Databricks connectors. Once you save OAuth credentials for a data source, Tableau will automatically handle refresh token rotation. Customers and partners can also enable this capability in their connectors developed using the Tableau Connector SDK.
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.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Embed Tableau in Google Slides.
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. And offers Virtual Connection support.
Session Recovery Improvements
Tableau extended offline visualization interactivity for users during session recovery, even for large vizzes. Minimize 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 programs 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 analyze it and take actions.
Performance Insights Dashboard
Analyze 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 analyze which visualizations impact load times to identify and troubleshoot slow-performing dashboards.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Custom views for stats for load times.
Additional Activity Log Events
Improve resource management monitoring and maintain security compliance certifications with additional event types. Available to support the Private Connect, Recycle Bin, and Prep Endpoint control features and log TabGPT configuration changes. Admins can ingest these logs into SIEM monitoring tools or import them to analytical data warehouses for reporting.
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.
Note: Activity Log Events will arrive in July 2025.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: See filters clients (users) are applying.
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.
This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange: Change ownership flows on Tableau Server. It also addresses [1].
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 capitalize 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 centralized 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, visualizations, 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 & 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 visualization records, whether they're Salesforce actions or dynamic URLs that leverage values from the visualization. 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 visualization 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 in Salesforce Mobile App
Stay instantly informed on the go with proactive mobile notifications about key metric changes. Get real-time access to metric health, track progress, and quickly ask follow-up questions to understand what's driving performance, empowering informed decisions wherever you are.
Tableau Next: Agent Analytics App
Make data-driven investment decisions and continuously optimize 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.
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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 centralized repository, ensuring increasingly relevant and precise responses.
Tableau Cloud Manager Authentication Enhancement
This new authentication enhancement allows admins to have even more control by being able to reset MFA verifiers for other single tenant users -regardless of whether they belong to more than one site in the tenant- and manage their MFA verifiers directly in Tableau Cloud Manager instead of handling them on the site level.
Note: This feature will come soon after the Tableau 2025.2 release.
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.