

Tableau’s visual analytics and dashboarding capabilities are already one of best in the market. Taking account the new features introduced at TC22 Tableau platform includes good data preparation and modelling capabilities with many connectors to a variety of data sources, services and APIs. One of the big announcements was rebranding Tableau Online to Tableau Cloud and introducing plenty of new features to it. Mark Nelson underlined the meaning of cloud saying 70% of new customers start their analytical journey in the cloud. But the viewpoint was data skills – or lack of them – and data cultures more than technologies. Once again, the importance of data for businesses and organisations was highlighted. In the keynote Tableau CEO Mark Nelson emphasised the role of both Tableau and Salesforce user communities to drive change with data: there are over 1M Tableau Datafam members and over 16M Salesforce Trailblazers.
