The following video is demonstrating how you can connect Tableau to a REST API – LIVE – by making use of a 3rd party software (which needs to be licensed!). It is called Custom Connector SDK from Progress. It’s an SDK which you can think of as a framework which you can adjust to your REST API. Before I’m going to show how to leverage OpenAcess together with... Weiterlesen

Due to the positive feedback of the write back extension from the video below I want to equip IT FOLKS with the right tools to setup the same environment on their machines for POC kind of situations as fast as possible. Please be aware of the fact that I might be referencing absolute paths in the code which means in order to be up and running as fast as possible you might want to... Weiterlesen

The video below is demonstrating how you could leverage Tableau’s Extension API to save a tremendous amount of time in your planning and forecasting processes. This is done by coding a Tableau Extension which is actually writing back data into your transactional database (e.g. CRM system) directly from within a Tableau Dashboard!  I’m looking forward to get your... Weiterlesen

Do you want to combine different SAP BW Queries on a single Tableau Dashboard? Well, having multiple next to each other on a dashboard is not a problem at all, but how can you make them interact with each other? This is exactly what this blog post is going to demonstrate: If you’re working on a single SAP BW Query and you want to filter from one sheet to another you can do... Weiterlesen

Administration of Tableau Server is not a lot of effort. Yet, what if you would like to be even more efficient? What if you would like to have recurrent tasks done by themselves? Let’s automate! Tableau Server offers you an incredible amount of control, using our REST API. Eventually, you can do almost everything, and more, what you know in the Tableau Server GUI. However,... Weiterlesen

Yesterday I’ve had a great meeting with Alican Polat. Alican has got roughly 20 years of experience in the analytics industry!!! The spectrum he covers in this area reaches from architectural design, over SAP, Tableau and other BI front end as well as backend tools, too machine learning algorithms! Today I’d love to quickly share an architectural design he came up with... Weiterlesen

Are you a Tableau Admin? Do you want to define which Project/Workbook/Dashboard/DataStory users should initially see once they’re logged in? Since many customers are used to have entry dashboards for most of their applications to show latest news, maintenance windows, updates and changes to their end users.  Many Tableau customers are using Tableau dashboards to do the exact... Weiterlesen