{"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

Here are the 5 important requirements of a Tableau to OBIEE Connector:<\/h2>\n
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  1. Connect securely to both Subject Areas and Reports<\/li>\n
  2. Reuse OBIEE joins and aggregations<\/li>\n
  3. Support both Live and Extract queries<\/li>\n
  4. Work seamlessly with Tableau Desktop and Server<\/li>\n
  5. Compatible across Tableau and OBIEE versions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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