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# Tableau Next Features Overview
If you're new to Tableau Next, this sections provides a brief overview of what you can do with Tableau Next. It also provides resources to learn more about Tableau Next.

As Salesforce’s end-to-end, agentic analytics experience, Tableau Next integrates the analytics platform with Agentforce’s context-aware AI and the Data 360 semantic layer that unifies business knowledge across your org. Designed to be composable and API-first, Tableau Next empowers you to create, share, and reuse analytics assets seamlessly. Build and deliver personalized, contextual, and actionable insights for every user, backed by Salesforce’s enterprise-grade performance, security, and scalability.

## Data Governance and Sharing

Tableau Next has a sophisticated multi-layered access control structure powered by flexible Salesforce permission sets, Data 360 governance policies, and sharing settings on each Tableau Next asset.

[_Salesforce Help_: Data Governance and Sharing In Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_governance.htm)

## Marketplace and Templates

### Dashboard Templates
Transform your Tableau Next dashboards into standardized templates that can be listed on Marketplace, empowering collaboration, promoting standardization, and reducing duplicate efforts across teams. The Tableau Next Marketplace allows analysts to share, customize, and deploy dashboard templates across an org, with the aim of improving efficiency and standardization. For example, after you build a dashboard highlighting your sales pipeline data, templatize it to share with your team and other sales teams.

[_Salesforce Help_: Build Templates for Your Tableau Next Marketplace](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_deploy_template.htm)

### App Templates


[_Developer Guide_: App Template Framework](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/analytics/app-template-framework/guide)


## Semantic Models

With semantic models, your data becomes unified into a single source of truth, accessible throughout Salesforce. Semantic models provide a way to interpret your data consistently across Salesforce by mapping it to standardized business terms and logic. Semantic models are first-class Salesforce metadata, so they’re available throughout Data 360 to power analytics and data-driven experiences.

[_Salesforce Help_: About Semantic Models](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_data_sdm_about_models.htm)

## Data Source Connectors
Create remote connections to your external data sources.

[_Salesforce Help_: Data Source Connectors](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_data_add_external_database.htm)

## Workspaces

Everything in Tableau Next exists in a workspace. A workspace is a flexible place for analysts to create and reuse analytic assets to answer questions about their data. Each workspace contains the tools needed for data analysis, including data connections, a semantic model builder and metric creator, and visualization tools to share findings with others.

[_Salesforce Help_: Tableau Next Workspaces](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_workspace.htm)

## Metrics

A metric is a business KPI that you can track over time and use to assess performance or business processes. A metric is derived from one or more measures. You can apply a sentiment to a metric (for example, up is good or bad), aggregation (for example, sum, non-cumulative, average, minimum, maximum), and other business contexts.

[_Salesforce Help_: About Metrics](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_data_sdm_about_metrics.htm)

## Visualizations

Visualizations are visual representations of your data as a chart or graph. A visualization is a powerful way to explore and analyze data. In Tableau Next, you can build visualizations with rich features, filters, calculations, and actions.

[_Salesforce Help_: Build Insightful Visualizations in Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_create_viz.htm)

## Dashboards

The Tableau Next dashboard is designed to streamline your workflow by providing a clear, intuitive overview of all the critical information you need. Whether you’re tracking performance metrics, managing tasks, or monitoring key data, dashboards bring everything together in one place.

[_Salesforce Help_: Create Effective Dashboards With Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_create_dashboard.htm)