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Companies that need more specialized features can create own custom extensions, for example to make data from a custom-built business application available in Tableau.

Tableau today previewed Tableau Extensions API, a new API currently available for developers to build on, that supports taking action from the desktop.

The Tableau 2018.2 release provides and Extension API for developers, and a new server configuration and management tool.

Tableau 2018.2 is now available with a new Extensions API, Tableau Services Manager, Spatial Join, and new mobile layouts.

This means IT can use the API to create a custom writeback extension, allowing analysts to update an inventory management system, for example, without leaving Tableau.

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Tableau has been acquired by Salesforce, but you wouldn’t know it if you attended the organisation’s ...