Integration of BusinessObjects and Tableau
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Why Tableau? Why do we need an Integration between BusinessObjects & Tableau?
What’s InfoBurst?
InfoBurst’s BO - Tableau Architecture Overview
Demo InfoBurst Tab in Action
Future InfoBurst’s Roadmap to help Business Objects Customers with Tableau and
Power BI
AGENDA
[ Why BusinessObjects & Tableau
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More than 40% of companies using BusinessObjects also use Tableau
Tableau popular for Self-Service Data Discovery and data visualization Not a good solution for BI reporting
BO customers have strong investment in universes and Webi reports • Keep Webi for reporting • Leverage universes and Webi for validated data
Tableau Datasources Something is missing in the
list??
BO UNIVERSES
Use InfoBurst Tableau Automated push of Webi data directly to TDE
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Connecting to universe only leverages part of BO Webi reports with defined business and report logic offers
a lot more Better data governance One version of the truth
Leveraging full capabilities of BO
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Loading WebI report data to XML Data cache Access WebI Report via Tableau Desktop
Leveraging full capabilities of BO with a Pull
Data Cache
Infoburst – Tableau Architecture
DELIVERY
BusinessObjects Report
REGION
Third Party BI/ERP Report
Query
Microsoft Report
NORTH EAST WEST
SOURCE BURST PUBLISH
NORTH Report (PDF)
EAST Report (PNG Image)
WEST Report (Excel)
Network Share
Email & Mobile Device
FTP - Printer BusinessObjects - RoamBI
Burst, Publish & Deliver
Text
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\\SHARE1\East\Sales By Region - 02-14-13.pdf
You can send customized outputs without adjusting anything…
Easy Delivery with Customized Outputs
\\SHARE1\[=REGION]\[$DOCNAME] - [TODAY].pdf
Instead of sending…
[Filtered by location] [Name of Report] [Today’s date]
Robust Scheduling
• Every Minute/Hour
• Daily
• Monthly
• On Certain Dates
• Using a Date Macro
• Using a Calendar
SQL Query EVENT Trigger EVENT
Infoburst – Tableau Features
Internals.TDE
Networks.TDE
Video.TDE
Infoburst – Tableau Features
Internals Dashboard
Master Dashboard
Peripherals Dashboard
Video Dashboard
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Infoburst
Reporting Data
UNV/UNX
Infoburst - Power BI
Infoburst Roadmap - What’s Next?
Tableau
1.Catalog & Refresh Tableau Workbooks
2. Bursting PDF’s from Tableau Workbooks
3.Embedding PNG image into email & Portal
InfoBurst
PORTAL
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XDC & ODATA
1. In Memory XDC
2. ODATA Connecting to XDC
3. Catering to Power BI Customers
Infoburst Roadmap - What’s Next?
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Infoburst Tab
TDE File
Reporting Data
UNV/UNX
Tableau Cloud
Tableau On-Premise
Network Drive
Infoburst – Tableau Architecture
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