This feature addresses or partially addresses the following request on the Salesforce IdeaExchange:Activity Log support for S3 in other AWS regions.

Configure SAML via REST API

Achieve greater efficiency and scale when managing security for multiple sites with the new SAML Configuration REST APIs. Programmatically configure SAML in both Tableau Cloud Manager or a Tableau Cloud site and create scripts to automatically rotate Identity Provider (IdP) certificates.

Tableau Cloud Unified Access Token

Simplify multi-site management and enable robust automation with a unified JWT authentication solution. This modern, secure method replaces difficult-to-manage Personal Access Tokens, allowing you to centralize API access across your entire Tableau Cloud environment.

Tableau Agent: Ingesting Field Descriptions

Improve the quality and relevance of AI-generated insights by empowering Tableau Agent with deeper business context. The agent now leverages field descriptions from your data catalog, moving beyond basic metadata to provide more accurate and meaningful responses.

Viz Extension Improvements

Gain greater flexibility and control when authoring with updated Sankey and Table viz extensions. New quality of life improvements have been added to each experience including richer Sankey labels and color mapping controls; with Tables - improved column filter experiences and ability to customize the display of null values across your table in one go. The improvements will be available in Tableau Desktop, Cloud, Server and Public.

Instant Viz in Show Me

Previously released on Tableau Cloud, Tableau Server users can now simplify your data analysis with an updated Show Me experience. When opening Show Me, see a viz of your data in just a couple of clicks. All viz types are available by default, allowing you to select the fields you want or let Tableau help you get started.

Workbook Color Palette Assignment

Ensure color consistency across your entire workbook with new palette settings. Creators can now set the default categorical, diverging, and sequential color palettes once to apply consistent styling across all your vizzes and dashboards, saving you time and effort. Available in In Tableau Desktop and Tableau Cloud and Server Web Authoring.

Add Related Tables

Author data models with greater productivity and accuracy. Automatically add related tables and define their relationships in your data model, leveraging foreign key constraints defined in your database to simplify your setup in Tableau Desktop, Server, and Cloud.

Tableau Semantics Connector Updates

Seamlessly leverage additional semantic definitions from Tableau Semantics models in Tableau Server. Additionally, new updates in the connector are also available to Tableau Desktop, Server, and Cloud users. You can now reuse curated Tableau Semantics data sources across users and workbooks when refining and extending Tableau data sources. Add groups and bins defined in semantic models to visualizations, allowing users to leverage curated business logic. Create visualizations using multi-fact semantic models to enable cross-area analysis. Display images in visualizations without configuration.

Note: The ability to publish Tableau Semantics data sources will come soon after the Tableau 2025.3.0 release.

SCIM Support on Tableau Server

Previously released on Tableau Cloud, you can now provision users and groups to Tableau Server using your identity provider (IdP) as the source of truth. You gain efficiency by avoiding the need to manually manage users and groups across multiple applications, and remain standards-compliant by using SCIM.

Find authors on Tableau Public

Find creators in the Tableau Community on Tableau Public's homepage. Find and follow talented authors for fresh engaging content, designed to inspire.

Tableau Agent in Tableau Server

Collaborate with Tableau Agent, your AI-powered assistant, to get to insights faster on Tableau Server. Use natural language to get support through every stage of analytics—from data preparation to exploration and visualization. Tableau Agent in Server will support Tableau Prep and Web Authoring capabilities. You need to connect to OpenAI using your API keys before launching Tableau Agent in Web Authoring or Desktop for a turnkey experience.

Trusted Extensions

Admins and analysts can confidently adopt extensions available in Tableau Exchange by quickly identifying Trusted Extensions. Extensions marked with the new blue checkmark badge are deployed and mediated by Tableau: they have gone through Tableau code review, network testing, and are hosted by Tableau to manage availability and security.
Admins have new settings to allow or block extensions from running, enabling better alignment of this Tableau backed standard. All Trusted extensions are also automatically enabled for full use in Tableau Public
Trusted extensions are available in Tableau Desktop, Cloud, Server, and Public.

Tableau Agent: Dashboard Narratives

Ease data discovery with intuitive, AI-generated explanations. Tableau Agent delivers dashboard narratives that provide a concise overview of the dashboard and insights for each viz, highlighting meaningful trends.

Beta coming soon to Tableau Cloud and Desktop.

Tableau Pulse: Disable Alerts and Digest

Manage the Pulse user experience by disabling digests and alerts at the site level. This gives admins control and helps manage phased rollouts.

Tableau Pulse: Customize Digest Frequency

Customize your digest delivery. Set a specific day for weekly or monthly digests to ensure your insights arrive exactly when they're most useful.

Tableau Pulse: Mobile Push Notifications

Get important Tableau Pulse alerts on the go without running the Tableau mobile app in the background. With mobile push notifications from Tableau Pulse, business users can better track important updates in real time, wherever they are.

Available on both Android and iOS.

Tableau Pulse: Pacing and Historical Context on Metric Card

Quickly evaluate a Tableau Pulse metric based on pacing and historical context. Now business users can see both the metric's progress to a set goal and its performance relative to the prior period directly on the metric card. Instead of having to click into the metric details, users can obtain a fuller sense of the metric's performance directly from the Tableau Pulse home page.

Tableau Pulse: Link to Metric Datasource

Easily explore the data behind a Tableau Pulse metric for deeper insights. Instead of only getting the datasource name in Tableau Pulse and having to search for the actual data, business users can now click into the datasource directly from the metric in Tableau Pulse.

Tableau Pulse: Q&A for Goals and Thresholds

Get intuitive answers around set goals and thresholds from Tableau Pulse. Tableau Pulse uses frontier LLMs to detect patterns, highlight risks, and now, explain changes across multiple metrics relative to their set goals and thresholds. In addition to getting pacing context from the individual metric, business users can now ask questions and get responses, enriched with these insights.

Tableau Next: Semantic Model Global Filter

Apply a wide, consistent filter directly to your entire semantic model, limiting the scope of all returned data for universal consistency. This reduces repetitive setup of the same filter logic across different definitions and ensures users only see relevant, authorized data.

Tableau Next: Create Semantic Data Model

Automatically generate a tailored semantic model based on a business goal, complete with relevant objects, relationships, and calculated fields. This accelerates semantic model creation and prepares your models to be AI-ready.

Tableau Next: C360 Semantic Model Support

Empower customers with trusted, cross-cloud insights. Ask natural language questions about data in the C360 semantic data model to gain trusted, cross-cloud insights.

Tableau Next: Q&A Calibration

Improve your agent's accuracy on analytics questions with Q&A Calibration. Test responses against a set of questions, classify them as accurate or inaccurate, and apply guided suggestions to calibrate and verify answers.

Tableau Next: Asset Details

Assess asset usage and context within your organization's ecosystem without needing to open it. View assets such as thumbnails, workspaces, and semantic models directly in the Detail Panel. This brings clarity into how assets are being used and leveraged in the flow of work.

Tableau Next: Agent Performance Alerts

Gain near real-time visibility and trust signals on your deployed AI agents through proactive data alerts on agent performance. Set alerts and receive notifications to get ahead of potential agent issues.

Tableau Next: Heat Map

Find relationships and hotspots in your data. Heat Map visualiations make it easier to spot complex patterns and gain a deeper understanding of your data.

Tableau Next: Dual and Sync Axis

Compare two different measures on the same chart using different Mark Types. Visually analyze the correlation between metrics in a single view for better understanding.

Tableau Next: Funnel Chart

Clearly track conversion rates to easily identify and address customer drop-off points. This enhanced visualization enables users to optimize specific business processes and address key challenges.

Tableau Next: Financial Services Insights App

Leverage this pre-built app for Salesforce to empower your branch managers and retail bankers with insights to build the banking business. Increase referral conversions, accelerate loan applications, and build customer retention.

Tableau Next: Productivity Shortcuts

Increase your authoring efficiency with new productivity shortcuts. Double-click data fields to quickly add them to your visualization and hide or show labels from the Toolbar. These shortcuts enables you to quickly create new vizzes and explore your data more efficiently.

Tableau Next: Semantic Model AI Optimization

Optimize your semantic model for better agent performance with Semantic Model AI Optimization in Tableau Semantics. Get a health score along with AI-powered suggestions, ensuring agents interpret and respond to your queries more accurately.

Now available in Beta.