--- schema_version: "1" id: edfa49357425d796a0b8f603ac24c611a960358cd8d4e73b1e001faf39cf8153 title: Tableau Next collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/release-notes/260-0-0/rn_tua.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua.htm&release=260&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 4d58f8ddf613a7cc743d55f387b84e8c18d3a188ad4f2a2331d91d606dc0b9e4 description: "Tableau Next integrates the #1 analytics platform with Agentforce context-aware AI and the Data Cloud semantic layer that unifies business knowledge across your organization. Build and deliver personalized, contextual, and actionable insights for every user, backed by Salesforce enterprise-grade performance, security, and scalability." products: - Cross Cloud Packages Solutions release: "260" --- # Tableau Next Tableau Next integrates the #1 analytics platform with Agentforce context-aware AI and the Data Cloud semantic layer that unifies business knowledge across your organization. Build and deliver personalized, contextual, and actionable insights for every user, backed by Salesforce enterprise-grade performance, security, and scalability. Tableau Next features and updates are released monthly. Check back in this section throughout Spring ‘26 to learn about enhancements in the Tableau Next open data layer, semantics, visualizations, integrated actions, and analytics apps. - **[Tableau Next Features Released by Month](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_features_released_by_month.htm&release=260&type=5)** Tableau Next features and changes are released as often as monthly, so check back again soon for the latest solutions. - **[Run Tableau Next with Unmetered Usage](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_unmetered.htm&release=260&type=5)** New Tableau Next licenses offer unmetered use of certain analytics features, including most data queries and AI usage of Analytics agents. Unmetered usage does not consume credits. For example, when a logged-in user with the unmetered permission creates a dashboard, explores a metric, or asks data questions with Concierge, the usage is unmetered. - **[New Features for Agentforce for Analytics](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_agentforce.htm&release=260&type=5)** Get proactive insights, ask questions about your data, and accelerate data preparation with Agentforce for Analytics in Tableau Next. - **[New Features for Tableau Next Workspaces](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_workspaces.htm&release=260&type=5)** A Tableau Next workspace organizes your data analysis and facilitates creating new analytical assets, cloning, and referencing assets from Data Cloud or other workspaces. Within workspaces, you have tools for data analysis, including data connections, a semantic model builder and metric creator, and visualization and dashboard builders to share findings with others. Live data connections ensure that your analyses stay up to date. - **[New Features for Data in Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_data_models.htm&release=260&type=5)** Bring in data from any source and inspect it to ensure data integrity. Create a single source of truth for reliable, governed, reusable models, and streamlined data management. - **[New Features for Semantics in Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_semantics.htm&release=260&type=5)** Tableau Semantics, the the AI-powered semantic layer, maps your raw data to business-friendly terms and logic, the key to building reusable models and metrics that provide contextual, consistent, trusted insights. - **[New Features for Tableau Next Visualizations and Dashboards](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_create_insights.htm&release=260&type=5)** Compose visualizations and dashboards with world-class analysis tools. Explore data and surface insights that you can act on by building visualizations on related data in your workspace to draw conclusions and make business decisions. Take data visualization to the next level with dashboards, where you can add interactivity, enhance data exploration, and provide a clear overview of the critical information that you need in one place. - **[New Features for Exploration and Action with Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_everywhere.htm&release=260&type=5)** Explore and refine metrics to show you the insights most relevant for your work, and stay on track by setting metric goals. Launch integrated flows and actions in Salesforce. And take it all on the road with Tableau Next Mobile. - **[New Features for Tableau Next Development](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_development.htm&release=260&type=5)** Manage External Client Apps for authentication directly from Tableau Next. Embed the AnalyticsAgent to generate natural language insights, visualizations, and proactive alerts in your external apps. Use the Tableau Next ISV/Developer guide to learn about developer solutions, including tools, packaging, and development orgs. - **[Tableau Next Highlights](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tua_last_highlights.htm&release=260&type=5)** Don’t miss any Tableau Next features. Recap or dive deeper into the Winter ’26 features and learning opportunities.