Transforming Data Analytics with Tableau 2024.2
Understanding Tableau’s New Features for Data Audiences
Enhancing Decision-Making with Tableau Cloud Server Updates
Key Highlights of Tableau Cloud Server 2024.2
How New Features Improve Analytics Capabilities
Collaboration Enhancements in Tableau Cloud
Best Practices for Leveraging Tableau 2024.2 Features
Real-Time Data Insights with Tableau Cloud
Streamlined Collaboration Tools for Teams
Advanced Visualization Features in Tableau 2024.2
Integrating Tableau Cloud Updates into Your Workflow
Tableau regularly rolls out cloud/server updates across its global infrastructure, introducing new features with every quarterly release. In this blog, we delve into the announced features of Tableau Cloud/Server 2024.2 and their implications for various user groups.
(For the ease of the readers, I have colour coded the feature titles)
On the official Tableau “features” page, the audience is categorized into four segments:
- Analysts
- Business Users
- Developers/Engineers
- Technical/IT
Following a similar classification, we’ll explore the forthcoming upgrades tailored for:
- Analysts
- Business Users
- Engineers & Admins
Key Updates and Features for Analysts
Tableau Pulse: Embedded Component
The Tableau Pulse web component enhances integration by allowing the Insights Exploration page to be embedded within your application. Users can activate a “presentation mode” to showcase either a single metric on a full page or multiple metrics as grouped cards.
As of the publication of this article, Tableau Pulse is exclusive to Tableau Cloud and is unavailable on Tableau Server.
Viz Extensions
A highly requested feature within the Tableau community, Viz Extensions expand Tableau’s visualization capabilities. This enhancement permits the addition of more diverse visualizations within worksheets, empowering the community to develop and share custom visualization types.
Viz extensions are also available for Tableau Server version 2024.2.
Multi-Fact Relationships
This feature enables users to connect datasets with common tables that share dimensions, facilitating multifaceted analysis. It is available for both Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud
Spell Check on Cloud
Spelling errors in web-authored content will be highlighted, with suggestions for corrections. This feature works seamlessly in both Tableau Cloud and Server and is configurable via browser settings.
Key Updates and Features for Business Users
Tableau Pulse: Dynamic Sorting and Grouping
Dynamic sorting and grouping allow users to organize monitored metrics based on metadata and data parameters like metric name, data source, time range, and filter values. This flexible and user-friendly approach allows users to uncover valuable insights and detect critical patterns and trends.
Tableau Pulse: Metrics in Catalog
This feature provides a visual understanding of the connections between upstream databases and metric definitions. Users can identify which pulse metrics will be affected by changes to published data sources, upstream files, tables, and columns. Administrators and stewards gain a comprehensive view of how modifications affect underlying databases.
Tableau Pulse: “Check Your Pulse” Mobile Reminders
Enable notifications for the Tableau mobile app to remind you to “Check Your Pulse” daily—so you always stay up to date with your business metrics.
Tableau Pulse: Streamlined Metric Discovery
Streamline metric selection—only main metrics and variations with followers are displayed when searching and browsing metrics
Service Intelligence Integration
Explore data from Service Intelligence for Salesforce using Tableau with just the click of a button. Click the “Explore in Tableau” button to connect Service Intelligence to Tableau Cloud for deep exploration.
Key Updates and Features for Engineers & Admins
Incremental Extracts with Subrange Refresh
Users can specify a date range for incremental refreshes, improving data management efficiency. This feature is available for both cloud and server
Tableau Cloud Manager
Slated for release in late Summer 2024, Tableau Cloud Manager is a highly anticipated update for administrators. It facilitates self-service creation of Tableau Cloud sites, allowing cloud admins to create sites in regions that comply with regional requirements and content security needs. This tool also enables cloud admins to manage licenses, users, and more across multiple Tableau Cloud sites from a single interface.
Data Connect
With Data Connect, Tableau shares the responsibility of deploying, monitoring, and managing Tableau Bridge, the software required to integrate on-premises or private cloud data into Tableau Cloud. This reduces administrative burdens, enhances data agility, and ensures synchronized data for real-time insights.
Attribute Based Access Control for Content Access
Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) is an advanced method of granting or denying access to resources based on assigned attributes of the subject, object, and environmental conditions. It can increase admin productivity and better scale governance and also leverage user information from your identity providers to onboard users and assign access.
In conclusion, Tableau continues to redefine the data visualization landscape by matching, and in some cases staying ahead of, user needs. With Tableau Cloud/Server 2024.2, analysts, business users, and administrators can expect improved efficiency, deeper insights, and more intuitive workflows. This release solidifies Tableau’s position as a leader in empowering data-driven organizations.
