Tableau Online Updates

Designate roles to users for automatically granted licenses upon their first time logging into Tableau Online

With grant license on sign in, we are making it easier to optimize your seat investment. Site admins can now provision licenses as users sign into their sites on Tableau Online. Previously, site roles were only changed by Active Directory (AD) sync either manually or through a REST API. It can be a time-consuming process and licenses were often given to people who never signed in, while other people who wanted to sign in could not.

Now, your organization can get the most from role-based subscription (RBS) licensing by reducing unused roles and administrative burden. Grant license on sign in ensures your licenses go to the people who need them, helps mitigate parking users in unused seats, reduce manual processes, and instantly scales to your unique needs.

Connect Tableau to your virtual private cloud data and get notified when a new Tableau Bridge update is available.

We are excited to announce a new version of Tableau Bridge designed to save time with centralized management, role separation with self-service for publishers, and a more scalable product. With the new Tableau Bridge release, we have retooled how Tableau Online connects to your private network data - whether your data resides on-premises or within a virtual private cloud.

• Manage Bridges
• Modify connections
• Track extract refreshes directly from Tableau Online without logging into a Bridge

Now, publishers are empowered to focus on creating content and can forget about managing Bridges.

• Users can publish and manage key reports with private network data sources using a centrally managed Bridge
• Run fewer Bridges because Tableau Bridge can now process multiple extract refreshes in parallel and pool them together for better resource utilization and simpler management.
• Access virtual private cloud (VPC) data by easily connecting to AWS, Redshift, Snowflake, and other cloud data stores even within a VPC through Tableau Bridge.

Prep users can now write prepared data to databases in the cloud or on-premises, enabling you to leverage your existing database and governance investments and manage trusted data at scale.

With this feature, you can write the output from your Tableau Prep Builder flows to external relational databases, so it can be leveraged throughout the entire organization. Previously you could only output your data as a flat file, .hyper, extract, or publish to Tableau Online/Server.

Now you can leverage the investments you have made in your own databases by using the visual and direct field mapping experience in Tableau Prep Builder. It helps ensure your clean data ends up where it is intended to be. With the Tableau Prep Builder 2020.3.1 release, any flows configured with the "write to database" option in Tableau Prep Builder will also write the output to the database when the flow is run in Tableau Prep Conductor.