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You're in for a treat: more than 60 new features in Tableau 5.0
Tableau Desktop 5.0 helps you explore data better and author killer visualizations.
Tableau Server 5.0 is faster, more secure, and easier to manage. And it scales to very large implementations, so your entire company can share data and explore visualizations.
Introduction: Active Dashboards
Tableau Desktop, Tableau ServerThese features keep the attention where it should be: in rich and interactive views of data. They help you find and tell the stories in your data.
New features in Tableau 5.0 include:
- Make selections pop with new visual selection model
- Highlight and filter related data (called brushing and linking in academic research)
- Work across data sources with new highlighting and filtering features
These features work with only a few clicks, no development needed. Highlighting and filtering is authored in Tableau Desktop and displays in both Tableau Server and Tableau Desktop.
From a beta customer: "When I highlight the product category in one legend it highlights that category in both worksheets, allowing us to rapidly see how mix varies across the regions and how it’s changed over 5 years." Chris Fort, Manager, Strategic Market Information Group, Mannington Mills, Inc
Video: Active Views & Dashboards
Introduction: Rich Authoring
Tableau Desktop, Tableau ServerThese features let you guide your users through an analysis and allow greater control over the visualization.
New authoring features include:- Manage your data: use powerful new filters, including relative date filters
- Create guided analytic workflows: design links, highlights and filters to create custom workflows
- Customize views: change Quick Filter and legend titles, customize tooltips and add parameters to titles and captions to present exactly the right view
- Create dual axes charts: show related data on dual axes
These features work with only a few clicks, no development needed.
Video: Guided Analytic Workflows
Introduction: New Data Options
Tableau Desktop, Tableau ServerThese features let you answer any question, no matter what the data is.
New features that support working with data include:
- Custom geocoding: create specialized regions or map international data by customizing map areas
- Broad data: connect to even more file formats; more support for cubes
- Data anywhere: work offline with exactly the data you need in extracts
- Secure data: support for SSL
- Data faster: Cut, paste and analyze directly from the web or email into Tableau
All the new data types are supported in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. Authoring features such as custom geocoding and cut, paste and analyze require Tableau Desktop.
New File Formats
Tableau Desktop, Tableau ServerWith Tableau 5.0, you can now access 4 new types of files:
- Tab delimited
- Space delimited
- Colon delimited
- Pipe delimited
New Database Versions
Tableau Desktop, Tableau ServerWith Tableau 5.0, you can stay up to date with upgrades from major database vendors.
- Postgres 8.3
- Oracle11g
- MySQL 5.1
- Vertica v3
- Teradata 13
- DB2 v9.5
Tableau connects natively so you don't have to do any custom development or integration.
Better Data Access for Cubes
Tableau DesktopMost Tableau 5.0's new features work with data cubes so you can work the way you normally do, with no development or custom integration needed.
New filter types for single-level attributes and sets:- Pattern matching
- Slider
- Combo box
- New filter type for multi-level hierarchies: radio button list
- “Relevant values” for single-level attributes and sets
- Highlighting for cubes
- Actions for cubes, which can be used to create effective filters
Support for SSL
Tableau ServerUsing Tableau 5.0 with SSL provides client/ server authentication so that you can communicate securely.
- Tableau SSL works with certificates from RSA or Thawte
- SSL makes both the publish and the view process secure
- The Tableau Server Configuration tool is used to authenticate
Video: Cut, Paste and Analyze
Introduction: Performance
Tableau ServerWe've made a huge investment in Tableau Server 5.0 so that it can scale up to the demands of any environment.
New features in performance and scalability include:
- Scalability: distribute server load to scale to thousands of users
- Responsiveness: multithreading so users spend less time waiting for results
- Performance: improvements in data shaping and connections
- Ease of maintenance: new management and monitoring tools mean you can use your IT staff efficiently
Tableau is scalable, easy to deploy and maintain, and it fits with your existing IT environment. It’s an enterprise-ready BI solution.
Improved Query Performance
Tableau ServerWe've made multiple improvements in Tableau Server 5.0 to speed up query performance.
Extracts optimizes for data storage
- Faster extract creation
- Smaller extracts
- Higher-performing filters
Judicious use of join logic across tables: Now only the joins necessary to create a view are created, speeding up database queries dramatically.
Optimized Teradata & Oracle connections: We've optimized queries for these database to support faster rendering.
Improved Human Efficiencies
Tableau ServerWe've added a number of features in Tableau Server 5.0 that make it easier for you to manage and monitor your system.
- Data source management
- Set a default landing page
- Rename projects
- Remember last display state and filters








































