Tableau 2020.3
Write to external databases in Tableau Prep, grant license on sign in, and deeper
integration with SAPScale your analytics and governance further
Write to external databases in Tableau Prep
Store your prepped data from Prep Builder in a central location that can be leveraged throughout your organization. Govern and scale the investments you've made in your databases by providing a visual and direct field mapping experience to ensure your prepped data ends up where it should be.
Learn moreThe new ‘write to database’ feature built into Tableau Prep gives customers the opportunity to prep their data earlier on in the value chain, further powering data democratization across the organization.

Grant license on sign in
We're making it easier to optimize your organization's seat investment, extending the value of Tableau to more users. Site admins can now designate members—specific individuals, teams and departments, or even your entire organization—to be automatically granted a site role (Viewer, Explorer, Creator) upon their first time logging in to their Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server account. Deploy Tableau at scale without having to manually respond to license requests, and quickly scale up when needed.

SAP HANA connector improvements & new SAP certifications
For our SAP HANA connector, users now have the ability to connect to Table Functions (stored procedures that return a table). We have also achieved official SAP Certification (HANA-BI-SQL 2.0) for integration with SAP HANA on Tableau Desktop, Prep, Server and Online. Read our new Tableau and S/4HANA Analytics Whitepaper for guidance and best practices around S/4HANA integration, and how to optimize the experience of using Tableau and S/4HANA together for analytics.
Tableau 2020.3 Feature Overview
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Tableau Mobile for Workspace One (iOS)
Tableau Mobile for Workspace ONE is an update to the existing app that provides a quick and secure way to view, analyze and leverage the data in your organization. The new app, compatible with iOS13, includes a newer design that is faster and more intuitive, an improved search and browsing experience consistent with Tableau Server and Tableau Online, as well as enhanced offline capabilities that are quick to load and offer richness and interactivity for visualizations.

Relationship improvements
Create relationships between tables in your data source with more flexibility. You can now relate tables based on custom calculated fields, like concatenated fields or date truncation, and inequality operators. Additionally, we've improved the drag-and-drop experience in the data model.

Spatial file union
Analyzing spatial data just got easier—you can now union two or more tables that contain spatial field types in Tableau. With the spatial file union, combining unique geographies within the same administrative level, or working with geographic events from different periods of time, are both made simple. For example, you can now easily union and explore multiple tables with wildfire boundaries from 2017, 2018, and 2019, without having to leave Tableau.
Query marks selected via row or header
For the marks selection event, when a user clicks on a column or row header, the marks in that column or row are selected, and will now return correctly when querying the selected marks in the API.
NullOptions in applyRangeFilterAsync
When applying a quantitative filter to a field or a date, you can pass fields into the applyRangeFilterAsync method to control advanced filtering options. One of the options is NullOptions and you can now indicate what to do with null values when applying the filter.
Tableau Server installation pre-check
To ensure a smooth installation and upgrade experience, Tableau Server now automatically performs a set of checks as you start the initialization/upgrade process. These checks are designed to detect common errors and issues (around permissions, credentials, base ports) that can arise during upgrade and install. You can also perform this check at any time with the TSM command. Today, this capability is for Windows, but we are working to bring it to Linux soon.

Ask Data improvements
Make your data even more approachable with new improvements to Ask Data's suggested questions. Customize the suggestions and add display text so they appear in colloquial language that your users are more accustomed to. Additionally, we've added refinement support for absolute date filters, and Tableau Online users can now access on-boarding and curation resources directly from the product.

Predictive modeling functions
New prediction functions go beyond the existing trendline analytical function to build a model that understands how your data is distributed around a best-fit line. MODEL_QUANTILE is a table calc that returns a target value at a specified percentile, based on other predictors. MODEL_PERCENTILE is a table calc that returns the probability of the expected value being less than or equal to the observed mark, based on other predictors.
Export crosstab to Excel on the web
You now have the option to export crosstabs directly to Excel on Tableau Server and Online, preserving consistent number and cell formatting.
PDF subscription improvements
You can now customize the page orientation and page size of your PDF subscriptions to better format how your dashboards are displayed.
Export dashboard button
You can now use the export dashboard button to export to a crosstab on Tableau Server, making any dashboard easily exportable for end users.

Grant license on sign in
We're making it easier to optimize your organization's seat investment, extending the value of Tableau to more users. Site admins can now designate members—specific individuals, teams and departments, or even your entire organization—to be automatically granted a site role (Viewer, Explorer, Creator) upon their first time logging in to their Tableau Online or Tableau Server account. Deploy Tableau at scale without having to manually respond to license requests, and quickly scale up when needed.
New connectors in the Extension Gallery
Customers looking to connect to data sources beyond Tableau’s native connector list can now find connectors in the Tableau Exchange, built by partners like Qubole, Dremio, Yellowbrick and SQream.
Visit the Tableau Extension GallerySAP HANA connector improvements & new SAP Certifications
For our SAP HANA connector, users now have the ability to connect to Table Functions (stored procedures that return a table). We have also achieved official SAP Certification (HANA-BI-SQL 2.0) for integration with SAP HANA on Tableau Desktop, Prep, Server and Online. Read our new Tableau and S/4HANA Analytics Whitepaper for guidance and best practices around S/4HANA integration, and how to optimize the experience of using Tableau and S/4HANA together for analytics.

Write to external databases in Tableau Prep
Store your prepped data from Prep Builder in a central location that can be leveraged throughout your organization. Govern and scale the investments you've made in your databases by providing a visual and direct field mapping experience to ensure your prepped data ends up where it should be.

View recommendations on Tableau Mobile
View recommendations are now on Tableau Mobile. Get personalized suggestions that instantly connect you to relevant vizzes on the go. Powered by machine learning, these recommendations leverage users' preferences and surface vizzes that others with similar viewing habits found interesting, and that are popular on your site. With the home tab, you can find recommendations in a dedicated channel on your Tableau Mobile App.

New "Shared with me" tab
Quickly access projects, workbooks, and dashboards that others have shared with you on Tableau Server or Tableau Online all in one place, via the "Shared with Me" tab on the home menu. Customized views are automatically saved separately, so that you can quickly navigate to the personalized view you need.