Tableau November 2025 Release
MCP Server, Published Data Sources, External Embedding, and more
Tableau Next: MCP Server
Power your custom AI with agentic analytics. This secure integration allows your agents to execute complex analytical tasks and deliver accurate answers from a governed, context-rich semantic layer - all protected by the Agentforce Trust Layer. Available in Beta.
Published Data Sources into Tableau Semantics
Jumpstart your agentic analytics journey. Maximize your existing data investments without migration, unlocking interoperability between products. Create new semantic data models in Tableau Semantics from Tableau Cloud Published Data Sources (PDS), enabling you to build upon and leverage them directly within Tableau Next. Coming soon to Tableau Next.
Tableau Next: External Embedding with SDK
Easily embed agentic analytics across any web application. Expedite development time with previews and easy customization via the SDK. Empower business users with live metrics, vizzes and dashboards to unlock data-driven action in any flow of work. Generally available in Tableau Next.
Tableau Next: Concierge in Lightning
Enable conversational analytics in the flow of work with Concierge in Lightning. The agent will automatically inherit all context (like filters and data sources) from your embedded Tableau Next dashboard, so you can ask plain-language questions and get accurate responses without leaving your workflow. Generally available in Tableau Next.
Tableau Next: Viz and Dashboard Enhancements
Accelerate your data journey and move from insight to action faster than ever. Test hypotheses in real-time by creating ad-hoc calculations directly within the visualization builder. Bring your vizzes and metrics to life by customizing colors to highlight key data points and align with your organization's brand. You can also effortlessly create dashboards with an intuitive design experience: simply reposition widgets and the surrounding elements will automatically adjust to make room. Generally available in Tableau Next.
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November
Published Data Sources into Tableau Semantics
Kickstart your agentic analytics journey and maximize your existing data investments without migration. Seamlessly bring Published Data Sources (PDS) from Tableau Cloud and Server into Tableau Semantics, enabling you to build upon and leverage them directly within Tableau Next.
Tableau Pulse: Support for User Functions
Apply row level security to a Pulse metric even if you cannot edit the underlying data source directly. The Advanced Editor now supports key user functions (e.g., USERNAME, ISMEMBEROF, FULLNAME) that were previously blocked, so analysts can ensure that users only see the data they are authorized to view.
Tableau Next: Concierge in Lightning
Enable conversational analytics in the flow of work with Concierge in Lightning. The agent will automatically inherit all context (like filters and data sources) from your embedded Tableau Next dashboard, so you can ask plain-language questions and get accurate responses without leaving your workflow.
October
Tableau Next: Inspector
Inspector, an Agentforce skill, helps you make smarter, faster decisions with proactive business insights. It monitors key metrics, alerts you when thresholds are met, and delivers actionable insights, so you're always informed and ready to act.
Inspector will be available in Beta.
Tableau Next: Slack Threads in Tableau Next
Stay on top of every conversation about your data. From within Tableau Next, you can monitor and respond to every Slack conversation about your metrics, whether in public channels or direct messages. This allows you to track engagement and keep every stakeholder aligned, all from a single view.
Tableau Next: Service Insights App (Rep Performance)
Leverage this pre-built app for Salesforce to drive service team excellence by gaining deep insights into human agent performance and workforce trends. Uncover skill gaps, monitor key performance indicators, and analyze retention trends to optimize your service rep performance.
Tableau Next: Service Insights App (Knowledge Performance)
Leverage this pre-built app for Salesforce to measure the impact of your knowledge base on customer success and case deflection. Track article engagement and usage across channels to evaluate effectiveness, ensure compliance, and assess the ROI of your content.
Tableau Pulse: Time-based Forecasting
See where your metrics are headed with time-based forecasting. Analyze historical trends to project future performance for partial periods, such as year-to-date or month-to-date, providing business users with a fast, intuitive understanding of a metric's expected value at a certain time.
Tableau Next: C360 Semantic Model
Accelerate time-to-insight with a unified view of your customer across the entire business. The C360 SDM is an out-of-the-box, extensible semantic model that provides a trusted foundation for delivering comprehensive intelligence across sales, service, and marketing.
2025.2
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 - Dashboard Load Times - and quickly uncover insights directly in Tableau Cloud. Admins can access the new performance dashboard within the Admin Insights Starter workbook, located in the Admin Insights project. 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 Semantics Connector
Effortlessly visualize your trusted data by connecting Tableau Cloud and Tableau Desktop to Tableau Semantics to use it as a data source. The Tableau Semantics connector bridges governed data models in Data Cloud with Tableau's powerful visualizations. Connect seamlessly to reusable models, create compelling dashboards, and get meaningful insights without having to start from scratch.
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.
In Pilot
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.
Tableau Prep Web Authoring Improvement
Tableau Prep web authoring in Tableau Cloud now allows you to edit your data flows without constant re-authentication. We've removed the 30-minute timeout, so you can leave your session open and jump right back into your work without needing to log in again. This means you can work on your data flows faster and more efficiently, without interruption.
Enabling Decouple Email Address from Username
Admins can set an email for Tableau Cloud users for notification purposes. Users may no longer have access to their stale email address's inbox or have been created with a username pointing to an unresolvable inbox. By decoupling the username and email address fields, users can keep updated to receive important notifications from Tableau Cloud.
Note: Generally available in July '25.
