“As a practitioner, I believe that the major game changer in the latest version, Tableau 2023.1, is Accelerator Data Mapping. With Data Mapping you can jump-start your analytics even faster by reducing the time and effort required to set up an Accelerator’s ready-to-use dashboards. Now, when configuring an Accelerator, the Data Mapper allows users to pull outside data into the Accelerator and map fields from their data source into the fields the Accelerator expects. This will be made possible via the Data Mapping UI - a hybrid dialogue box that opens by default with any Data Mapping enabled Accelerator”
Let’s catch up with Tableau’s brand-new capabilities:
1. Tableau for Slack Enhancements
The Tableau app for Slack has been improved to enhance collaboration on insights. These updates make it simpler to prioritize data in every conversation and decision. New features include the ability to share Tableau content with context using link previews, which helps teams quickly identify and act on pertinent information. Additionally, it’s now easier to search for and share Tableau content in direct messages and channels. Finally, you can quickly access your recent and favourite items from the App homepage, making it faster to get to insights.
2. Identity Pools for Tableau Server
Identity Pools provide a way to go beyond the current restriction of having only one identity store on the Tableau Server. An Identity Pool consists of a “Source of Users” (previously known as the Identity Store) and an authentication mechanism. With this feature, you can add more pools where your source of users can belong to a local identity store and authenticate using OpenID Connect for modern authentication. This added flexibility will benefit organizations that have external users who need access to Tableau but cannot be added to their corporate Active Directory.
3. Dynamically Update Axis Titles
Parameters are useful for adding interactivity and flexibility to a visualization. They allow viewers to select how they want to view the data. However, previously, it was not possible to automatically update the axis title.
Dynamic axis titles enable the axis title to be determined by the value of a parameter or a single-value field. This feature allows authors to provide better context for their data visualizations to their audience.
4. Support Internal and External Users on Tableau Server
If you’ve found the single identity store limitation of Tableau Server to be limiting, you’ll be pleased to know that Identity Pools offer a solution. In the past, there were only two types of identity stores, local and external, and changing the configuration required a complete reinstall of the Tableau Server.
Identity Pools allow you to overcome this limitation by creating additional pools that combine a “Source of Users” (previously known as the Identity Store) and an authentication mechanism. You can now have your source of users belonging to a local identity store and authenticate using OpenID Connect for modern authentication. This added flexibility allows you to support both internal and external users who are not part of the corporate Active Directory.
5. Personalize Data Access with User Attributes
The new USER ATTRIBUTE (string) function is now available for personalized data access. This function passes login attributes in a calculation, which can be used as a data source filter for row-level security, beyond just username and group, such as department or region. This allows for the customization of a user’s data access in embedded scenarios.
With this new function, you can include additional information about users and send it to Tableau when the users sign in. Tableau will automatically use this information as a filter, only showing corresponding data to the user.
When the filter is applied in your workbook or dashboard, Tableau searches for the value of the attribute in the viewing user’s authentication token. Using Connected Apps and SSO for embedding users, you can include the attribute as a claim in the JSON Web Token (JWT) used for user authentication.
How Tableau 2023.1 can be Beneficial to the Tableau Users
With the added new features, you can enjoy the advantages enlisted below:
- Greater Flexibility and Security for Both Internal and External Users: Tableau Server now offers greater flexibility and security for both internal and external users with the ability to add local identity stores and authenticate using OpenID Connect.
- Efficient Offline Environment Management: With an enhanced activation solution, managing offline environments is a breeze, thanks to the option to leverage login-based license management.
- Reliable Tableau Mobile: Tableau Mobile is now even more secure, due to added security policies that prevent screen sharing and screenshots on Android devices, as well as the detection of jailbreak and malware.
- Connect to Google BigQuery: Connecting to Google BigQuery is now more efficient than ever, be the new JDBC connector that uses BigQuery’s Storage API.
- Resource Monitoring Tool: The tool, which is a component of Tableau Advanced Management, now comes with enhanced features that make logging in easier and allow for more customization options:
- Network Credentials Support: Users can now use their network credentials to log into the Resource Monitoring Tool instead of using a distinct username and password.
- Customizable Run As users: With this new feature, you can set up Run As users for the Resource Monitoring Tool Server and Agent on Linux operating systems to comply with your security policies and apply best practices.
- Tableau Data Management now offers enhanced features that enhance data reliability and flexibility for virtual connections:
- Data Warnings: Data quality warnings are now available in both web authoring and Data Details to help improve data trust. Users can receive warnings about data quality at the column level.
- Flexible Connectivity: With the latest update, users can choose to use either a live or extract connection for each table within a virtual connection. This allows them to refresh the data as needed to suit their needs.
Are you as excited as we are about these amazing new features? If so, be sure to get started with Tableau 2023.1 today!
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