Tableau Next: Tableau Agent Conversational Analytics Enhancements

Trust insights are accurate and consistent, thanks to more advanced reasoning across your business' knowledge. Tableau Agent's conversational analytics capabilities now support a broader range of deep analysis — trend, composite, and period-over-period comparisons — new, rich visualizations including donut charts, heat maps, scatter plots, and more, and the ability to act on those insights directly in conversation.

Tableau Agent Conversational Analytics Enhancements are generally available in Tableau Next.

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Tableau Next and Tableau MCPs available in Slackbot

Bring trusted analytics into every conversation. With Tableau Next and Tableau MCPs, Slackbot delivers consistent, accurate insights right where you work. Now, you can ask questions and receive answers grounded in your governed data, metrics, and business context in Tableau. And with Tableau Next, your answers are delivered with rich, interactive visualizations that make complex data easy to understand and act on.

Slackbot and Tableau Next integration is generally available via Tableau Next MCP. 
Slackbot and Tableau Cloud integration is coming soon via Tableau MCP.

Tableau Next: Enterprise Grade Data Preparation for Agentic Analytics

Validate external data via live connections before it enters your analysis, catching schema issues and anomalies instantly. Then clean, join, and transform multi-object datasets natively in Tableau Next. A centralized monitoring hub tracks refresh history and flags failures in real time, so every dashboard you deliver is built on data you can trust.

Data Transform Builder is available in Beta in Tableau Next.
Data Monitor and Profile Source Tables via Data Lens are generally available in Tableau Next. No additional configuration required.

Tableau Agent in Pulse (Formerly Enhanced Q&A)

Unlock  deeper reasoning capabilities and sharper intent recognition with Tableau Agent in Pulse, now powered by GPT 5.2. Ask complex, multi-part questions and get richer insights that help your teams move from data to action, faster. And with User Access Control, you can enable Tableau Agent in Pulse for a specific Tableau user group, validate the experience, then expand access at your own pace, on your own terms.

Tableau Agent in Pulse on GPT 5.2 is generally available in the Tableau Cloud+ Edition and Tableau+ Bundle.
Tableau Agent in Pulse User Access Control is generally available in the Tableau Cloud+ Edition and Tableau+ Bundle.

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Tableau MCP: New AI Integrations for Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex

Accelerate time to insight by using your favorite AI agent. New integrations for Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex bring Tableau's trusted insights and curated semantic models directly into the AI experiences your teams already use. Simply install the Tableau connector or app from each platform's marketplace, sign in to your Tableau Cloud site, and start asking questions of your data from wherever you work.

Hosted Tableau MCP built-in integrations are coming soon.

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