FAQs on Tableau, Power BI, Qlik to OBIEE BI Connector

BI Connector Desktop Edition is available as an annual subscription license per user per desktop. If the user changes the machine, the user can contact BI Connector Support to request for the license to be moved from one machine to another.

No. Publishing and sharing of data sources and dashboards to Servers or Online requires BI Connector Server Edition license.

Yes, it is possible to use BI Connector with any of the three visualization tools with a three-in-one license key. The annual subscription fee for the three-in-one BI Connector is $480 per user per year. Please contact BI Connector Sales to upgrade your license.

Volume discount is available for the purchase of more than 25 Desktop Edition licenses. Please contact BI Connector Sales.

If you have an enterprise installation (16 or more CPU cores) of Tableau Server, then we recommend an enterprise license of BI Connector Server Edition which will offer you the flexibility to deploy BI Connector on all servers for all your users at an attractive cost.

If you have a department installation (8 CPU core license or more than 180 users) of Tableau Server, then we recommend a server-based (8 CPU core) unlimited user license of BI Connector Server Edition.

If you have fewer than 180 users for your Tableau Server, then we recommend a user-based department license of BI Connector Server Edition. Please note that all the users of the Tableau Server must be counted as users for BI Connector.

If you have fewer than 180 users for your Tableau Online, a user-based department license of BI Connector Server Edition is recommended. Please note that all the users of the Tableau Online must be counted as users for BI Connector.

If you have more than 180 Tableau Online users, then we recommend a server-based unlimited user license of BI Connector Server Edition.

If you have fewer than 180 users for your Power BI Cloud Service, a user-based license of BI Connector Server Edition is recommended. Please note that all the users of the Power BI Cloud Service must be counted as users for BI Connector.

If you have more than 180 Power BI Cloud Service users, then we recommend a server-based (CPU core based) unlimited user license of BI Connector Server Edition. The number of CPU cores in the machine used for the On-Premise Gateway is considered. A minimum of 4 CPU cores must be licensed.

If you have an enterprise installation (16 or more CPU cores) of On-premise Gateway, then we recommend an enterprise license of BI Connector Server Edition which will offer you the flexibility to deploy BI Connector on all servers for all your users at an attractive cost.

Currently, the BI Connector Server Edition works only with the Windows version of Tableau Server. If you need a Linux version, please contact BI Connector Sales to request the feature.

Currently, the BI Connector Server Edition works only with the Power BI Cloud Service via the On-Premise gateway. Power BI Report Server does not support custom connectors and therefore it is not possible to use BI Connector Server Edition with Power BI Report Server.

BI Connector offers performance, cost savings, and time savings advantage over the ODBC driver which practically doesn’t work. To learn more, please refer to this article in Tableau website.