Tableau 8.1 makes business analytics faster, easier

SEATTLE, USA: Tableau Software announced the general availability of Tableau 8.1, an update to its 8.0 major release introduced in March 2013.

Tableau 8.1 delivers new features for the enterprise, sophisticated analytics, and more interactivity on the web and for mobile devices. It also provides users with rich analytics by integrating with the open source statistics program, R.

"Tableau 8.1 delivers many features and enhancements that our customers have been asking for," said Chris Stolte, chief development officer and co-founder of Tableau Software. "We are focused on making analytics fast, easy and beautiful, whether you're an individual user or deploying analytics to the entire enterprise."

Tableau unveiled features of 8.1 at the Tableau Customer Conference in Washington, D.C. in September. New Tableau 8.1 features include:

Enterprise class: Tableau supports mission critical deployments with a full 64-bit product suite, SAML authentication, support for external load balancers, IPv6 support and much more.

Fast, easy, beautiful: Building beautiful dashboards is easier than ever with new quick filter customizations, transparency support, an improved presentation mode and the ability to copy sheets between workbooks.

Sophisticated analytics: Now every business user can leverage statistical depth with one-click box-and-whisker plots, forecasts with confidence intervals, new rank and percentile functions, and integration with R.

Web and mobile interactivity: People can answer more questions on the go with an enhanced web authoring mode and improved mobile tablet apps, including a new version for Android that allows you to edit views on the fly.

Seamless access to data: Connecting and transforming data is easier than ever with upgrades to data connectors and stored procedure support.