A Data Kit is the correct deployment mechanism when Tableau Next assets and their dependent Data 360 semantic models must be moved together. Salesforce explicitly documents that Tableau Next workspaces, visualizations, and dashboards can be packaged in a Data Kit and that Data 360 semantic models-the primary data source for Tableau Next assets-must be deployed to target home orgs using Data Kits.
The consultant should create a DevOps Data Kit, add the semantic models and Tableau Next assets, and then carefully validate the publishing sequence. Salesforce requires the dependency sequence to be at least:
Semantic Models - > Workspaces - > Visualizations - > Dashboards.
This ordering exists because visualizations depend on both semantic models and workspaces, while dashboards depend on visualizations.
A Change Set can deploy Tableau Next metadata in certain scenarios, but it does not provide the same unified deployment path for the Data 360 semantic-model dependencies described here. Salesforce CLI similarly is not the best answer when the requirement is explicitly to package all these assets together.
References/Topics: Managing Workspaces and Orgs - > Deploy Tableau Next Assets - > DevOps Data Kits -
> Publishing Sequence and Dependencies.