The new DataSelf Analytics interface – powered by Tableau 10.1 – lets business people stay in the flow with their data. Users work smarter and faster than ever. Ask your questions, get your answers, and discover questions you didn’t even know you had. Below, you’ll see a sample of valuable new features.

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Analyze more of the data you care about, faster, with new connectors and data prep improvements.

Json

Analyze your local JSON data directly in Tableau. Bring government data, data from web APIs, and other popular JSON data sources right into Tableau with a few clicks.

Union updates

Save time with wildcard unions. Union all files in a directory that match a specific condition, or all sheets in an Excel workbook. You can also union multiple Google Sheets workbooks with a few clicks.

Marketo

See your Marketo data directly in Tableau with our new Marketo connector. Learn more about this powerful new connector.

SAP

Cube search for SAP BW
We’ve add a search box so you can easily find the table you need, even if it’s hidden among similarly named tables that are hard to distinguish visually.

Default schema for SAP HANA
Tableau now automatically selects the SYS_BIC schema for you, letting you get to your analysis faster. You can also specify a different schema if needed.

Calculated Parameters for SAP HANA
Analyze your SAP data faster. Use calculated parameters that evaluate SQL at runtime to get more relevant default values.

Connector Updates

Parameters
Leverage parameters with more sources that support initial SQL including AWS EMR, MapR, Hive, Spark, HP Vertica, and more.

Google BigQuery improvements
Use level of detail calculations and enjoy faster validation of custom SQL when connecting to Google BigQuery.

More SSL support
Leverage SSL support for Netezza and Teradata.

Powerful governance and extensibility features for scalable enterprise deployments.

Conditional Subscriptions

Stay on top of your changing business. Now receive email updates when data is present in your viz. When you have a new task in your workflow or a specific condition is met, Tableau will send you an email with the latest data. Learn how to use conditional subscriptions to quickly set threshold alerts.

Extensibility

Mobile app bootstrap
Embed Tableau vizzes into your mobile apps using our open source app example and documentation. Explore a sample open source app built with the Cordova framework and dive deeper with relevant documentation to assist mobile developers who are looking to take advantage of the Tableau platform.

Server client library
Stop writing reams of code by hand and save time by using the client library. It’s posted on GitHub, so you can get full access to the code and submit pull requests if needed.

Web Data Connector improvements
Build faster and more user-friendly connectors with the improved WDC. You can now create predefined joins for end users. Plus, for long-running operations, report progress to end users with a new API.

REST API improvements
We’ve added filtering and sorting to more endpoints for more flexible and powerful queries. The new Server Info endpoint tells you what version of Tableau is running on the server along with information about the latest version of the REST API.

Document API improvements
Programmatically change fields while working with TWBX and TDSX (in addition to TWB and TDS).

Automated installation of Tableau Server

Server administrators can complete an installation or upgrade of Tableau Server without sitting through every step of the process. Simply provide the configuration, licensing, and registration information specific to the installation in a script. You can now integrate with enterprise software management tools like Chef or Puppet for managing deployments.

Make your AWS deployment painless. To get up and running quickly, you can automate the deployment of an EC2 instance and then install a single-node Tableau Server with our AWS CloudFormation template.

Profile Pics

Personalize Tableau by importing profile pictures from Active Directory or allowing users to create their own.

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With improved web authoring, it’s easier for everyone to use Tableau when and where they want.

Web authoring

Web authoring keeps on getting better. You can easily edit reference lines and bands, and use interactions like show/hide headers.
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Device layouts

See how your viz will look on a mobile device. Check out “read only” previews of device layouts when authoring on the web.

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Full screen viz

Make your vizzes more impactful. You can now view embedded and non-embedded vizzes in full-screen mode.

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Drill-up on continuous date fields

Easily explore data hierarchies with the ability to drill back up on continuous fields in Tableau Desktop.

Geocoding

Airport codes – Tableau now recognizes IATA and ICAO codes, making it even easier for you to map airports. Also you can now easily map second level administrative regions in the Netherlands.

Maps data

Understand geographic data more easily with postal code additions for Thailand and South Africa and postal code updates for the United States, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Turkey. We’ve also updated United States congressional districts.

"Unbelievable how easy this product is to use. It is so easy to go change some of the existing dashboards and - boom – I have a brand new dashboard."

Director of Operations, A large manufacturing corporation

"I have been finding interesting things as I make reports. For instance, one of our items had 41 different sale prices. No one realized."

"I love DataSelf Analytics. I started right up making my own reports. It made my old report writer look like a dinosaur!"

Heather Welsch, Senior Accountant, Pyramid Time Systems

"Being an old dog, I know software that meets one's expectations is rare. DataSelf BI has far exceeded mine. We bought it for its world-class sales reporting, and now I'm saving up to $500,000 annually because I also use it to manage my inventory and purchasing more effectively."

John Barrett, COO, Wiley X, Inc.

"I am very happy with DataSelf Analytics. Once we integrate our legacy billing system and 2nd ERP system we'll be able to take control of our data as never before."

Lou Cherniss, CFO, Calaveras Telephone Company

"DataSelf BI provides exceptional ROI through reduced overhead plus the ability of our sales force to quickly and easily identify under-performing accounts!"

David Fulmer, VP and co-founder, SawStop

"DataSelf BI has helped us save around $250,000 in discounts on over-stocked inventory. That alone has made the small investment in this enterprise-class software a miracle."

Kevin Cunningham, IT Director, Scorpion Sports, Inc.

"After email, DataSelf BI is the first thing the CEO checks in the morning. I use it religiously. You can drill down, drill up, and drill back in history. You can look at snapshots on how we're doing versus how we've done the past three years."

Sam Prestipino, COO, Implus Footcare LLC

"In the produce business, things change fast. With DataSelf BI, our business data becomes live. I can bend the data, shape it, move it around. It becomes live in ways that a piece of paper just can't."

Toine van der Knaap, Gen. Manager, St. Davids' Hydroponics

"It now takes just seconds to see trends in sales and budgets -- areas that took a long time before. People here are getting more and more excited. We now act on new trends as they emerge, while the time is right, when adjustments can make the biggest impact."

Daniel Schnyder, Special Projects, Emmi (USA), Inc.

”Forget about eating a donut...I didn't even have time to take a bite of the donut before I finished my first report. I can't wait to take this Porsche out of the parking lot.”

, Food Should Taste Good, Inc.

”I love this program! I've been putting together sales reps' territories dashboards. Our CFO was looking for something today and after losing two hours trying to get it out of our accounting package she had the data in minutes with DataSelf BI – very cool! She was thrilled!”

Leslie Hull VP - Sales & Marketing, ATRO Engineered Systems, Inc.

”We used to spend about 54 hours producing and updating reports on a monthly basis. With DataSelf BI, we cut down that time to 2 hours. The solution had an ROI in the first 30 days of usage. Running reports now take seconds versus hours.”

Jason Coleman, Director of IT/IMS, East Coast Mechanical, Inc.