{"id":2361,"date":"2020-09-08T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biconnector.com\/blog\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:18:30","slug":"5-mandatory-requirements-of-a-tableau-to-obiee-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biconnector.com\/blog\/5-mandatory-requirements-of-a-tableau-to-obiee-connector\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Mandatory Requirements of a Tableau to OBIEE Connector"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is a traditional BI platform with robust data management capabilities. However, OBIEE falls too short of the user expectations from the data visualization and self-service standpoints .<\/p>\n
Tableau is a powerful data visualization platform with strong self-service capabilities and a wide user-adoption.<\/p>\n
Many organizations using OBIEE prefer connecting a modern BI tool (such as Tableau) to OBIEE in order to effectively complement its limitations in a bimodal<\/a> approach.<\/p>\n A few organizations, despite moving to Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)<\/a> are looking for ways to connect Tableau to OAC. It’s probably because a significant number of users are already well-acquainted with Tableau, and prefer sticking to it.<\/p>\n When connecting Tableau to OBIEE (or OAC), most organizations face a major challenge – choosing the right connector.<\/p>\n This list will help organizations to narrow down to the right connector. Let\u2019s now take a quick look at each of these requirements.<\/p>\n The connector must enable the Tableau users to securely visualize data from both Subject Areas and Reports.<\/p>\n This requirement will equip the users to access the existing OBIEE reports as a separate dataset while providing the flexibility to tap into the Subject Areas data (and build a new report in Tableau) as needed.<\/p>\n When a user connects from Tableau to OBIEE Subject Areas, the connector must retain the data relationships between the fact and dimension tables used for the analysis.<\/p>\n This requirement will ensure the user doesn\u2019t waste time in recreating the joins and aggregations in the Tableau end from the scratch.<\/p>\n The connector must work seamlessly in both Live and Extract queries of Tableau, based on user preferences. This requirement is a standard expectation of the Tableau folks.<\/p>\n The IT teams must also educate the Tableau users about the best practices in choosing between Live and Extract queries.<\/p>\n The connector must provide the users with the flexibility to connect from both Tableau clients (Desktop and Server) to OBIEE.<\/p>\n Further, the connector must also enable the users to execute Scheduled Refresh of OBIEE data.<\/p>\n The connector must be compatible across different Tableau and OBIEE (11g and 12c) versions.<\/p>\n It is impossible for all Tableau users in an organization to use the same Tableau version, given the frequency of Tableau releases.<\/p>\n Hence, it\u2019s very essential for the connector to eliminate potential showstoppers in the form of version compatibility issues.<\/p>\n Looking for a Tableau to OBIEE connector<\/a> that meets all these 5 mandatory requirements? Well, your search ends here<\/b><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is a traditional BI platform with robust data management capabilities. However, OBIEE falls too short of the user expectations from the data visualization and self-service standpoints . Tableau is a powerful data visualization platform with strong self-service capabilities and a wide user-adoption. Many organizations using OBIEE prefer connecting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[12,11,141],"yoast_head":"\nHere are the 5 important requirements of a Tableau to OBIEE Connector:<\/h2>\n
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Connect securely to both Subject Areas and Reports<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Reuse OBIEE joins and aggregations<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Support both Live and Extract queries<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Work seamlessly with Tableau Desktop and Server<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Compatible across Tableau and OBIEE versions<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n