Today Tableau Customer Conference 2013 started with 3200+ attendees from 40+ countries and 100+ industries, with 700 employees of Tableau, 240 sessions. Tableau 8.1 pre-announced today for release in fall of 2013, also version 8.2 planned for winter 2014, and Tableau 9.0 for later in 2014.
Update 9/10/13: keynote now is available recorded and online: http://www.tableausoftware.com/keynote
(Recorded Monday Sept 9, 2013 Christian Chabot, Chris Stolte and the developers LIVE)
New in 8.1: 64-bit, Integration with R, support for SAML, IPV6 and External Load Balancers, Copy/Paste Dashboards and worksheets between workbooks, new Calendar Control, own visual style, including customizing even filters, Tukey's Box-and-Whisker Box-plot, prediction bands, ranking, visual analytics for everyone and everywhere (in the cloud now)
Planned and new for 8.2: Tableau for MAC, Story Points (new type of worksheet/dashboard with mini-slides as story-points), seamless access to data via data connection interface to visually build a data schema, including inner/left/right/outer visual joins, beautifying columns names, easier metadata etc, Web authoring enhancements (it may get into 8.1: moving quick filters, improvement for Tablets, color encoding.) etc.
8.1: Francois Ajenstat announced: 64-bit finally (I asked for that for many years) for server processes and for Desktop, support for SAML (single-sign-ON on Server and Desktop), IPV6, External Load Balancers:
8.1: Dave Lion announced R integration with Tableau:
8.1: Mike Arvold announced "Visual Analytics for everyone", including implemention of famous Tukey's Box-and-Whisker Box-plot (Spotfire has it for a while, see it here: http://stn.spotfire.com/stn/UserDoc.aspx?UserDoc=spotfire_client_help%2fbox%2fbox_what_is_a_box_plot.htm&Article=%2fstn%2fConfigure%2fVisualizationTypes.aspx ),
better forecasting, prediction bands, ranking, better heatmaps:
8.1: Melinda Minch announced "fast, easy, beautiful", most importantly copy/paste dashboards and worksheets between workbooks, customizing everything, including quick filters, new calendar control, own visual style, folders in Data Window etc...
8.2: Jason King pre-announced the Seamless access to data via data connection interface to visually build a data schema, including inner/left/right/outer "visual" joins, beautifying columns names, default formats, new functions like DATEPARSE, appending data-set with new tables, beautifying columns names, easier metadata etc.
8.2: Robert Kosara introduced Story Points (using new type of worksheet/dashboard with mini-slides as story-points) for new Storytelling functionality:
8.2: Andrew Beers pre-announced Tableau 8.2 on MAC and he got a very warm reception from audience for that:
I agree with the sentiment; I can't say I am familiar with all of the BI Tools on the market but I am a firm believer in empowering business units to fish for themselves and have BI self-service capabilities.
ReplyDeleteTools like Tableau make it much easier for a Business Analyst to discover and analyze data thereby dramatically shortening the latency between idea / problem and information necessary to take action.
There is still a need for technical skills to make data available in a structure that can be consumed by tools like Tableau. Thankfully, these situations are getting fewer.
I like the new features announced this week and have signed up for Beta testing.