Customers Inspire Tableau 8.1

Although most companies “claim” to put customers first, we rarely feel that we have been heard or have had much influence on product offerings. That’s why it’s so refreshing when a company like Tableau actually listens and responds to customer needs. Tableau’s recent introduction of version 8.1 for Desktop, Server, Reader and Public incorporates many upgrades that were inspired by you, the customer. In fact, 50% of the new features come from customer ideas. You asked and Tableau delivered! As a Tableau partner, we are proud to be associated with such a responsive and innovative company.

Tableau 8.1 delivers a host of new features motivated by customer ideas ranging from enterprise features and enhanced mobile authoring to analytics and statistics improvements, and enhanced access to data.

These are the items that we found most useful in the new release:

Entire Tableau Product Suite

• Now available in both 64 and 32 bit

Tableau Desktop

Data Source Enhancement

• Improved Google Analytics connector provides Advanced Segments

User Experience Improvements

• Copy and Paste between workbooks
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Analytics and Statistics Improvements

• R Integration – an open source collection of statistical functions, libraries and packages is now integrated with Tableau

• Forecasting Improvements – forecast into the future with prediction bands, multiplicative models and support for fiscal years

• Percentiles – 1 click percentiles show how much of a group falls within a defined measurement

Web and Mobile Enhancements

• Modify color palette, stepped, reversed, transparency

• Refresh all data sources with just one touch

• Support for Web Authoring in the Android App

Tableau Server

• Extract Refresh Alerts – users will see notifications if there was an issue with any extract refreshes

I encourage you to experience the improvements for yourself. You can download a free trial version of Tableau 8.1 here.

Let me know what you think!

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