Jamal’s search turns up information about the Tableau Connector SDK. Explore the Tableau Extension Gallery and Connector SDK What should he do? Jamal searches online and finds that there are other options to get the data into Tableau. Oh, no! He can’t find a connector for their legacy data source on the list of native connectors for Tableau. He knows Tableau provides connectors for hundreds of data sources. He starts up Tableau and looks for the data source connectors. The first step for Jamal is to connect to the data. The team wants to use Tableau to analyze all the data stored in their legacy data warehouse so they can make the right marketing decisions for their customers. Jamal is excited to start using Tableau to work on a new project with the marketing team. Jamal is an analyst at Main Stage Analytics, where he examines sales data, market research, and logistics to help Main Stage Analytics' customers make better decisions. Remember the analyst firm Main Stage Analytics? Let’s see how it’s starting its journey with the Tableau Platform. The Web Data Connector SDK allows you to build web-based connectors to access web-based data sources that are not currently supported by Tableau. The Connector SDK allows you to build custom connectors that act just like native connectors that Tableau customers can use to visualize any data from any database through an ODBC or JDBC driver. hyper (database) files, or to open existing files, and then insert, delete, update, or read data from those files.
The Hyper API allows you to create custom scripts that pull any data into Tableau. In the connectivity toolbox, the Hyper API is the Swiss Army Knife. Tableau offers a set of APIs and developer tools that enable you to give users direct access to any data. However, in the rare case that Tableau does not provide a connector to your datasource or you just want the flexibility to write an application, Tableau also gives you the tools and APIs. Tableau supports connecting to a wide variety of data sources, stored in many different locations, from spreadsheets on your local computer to relational databases on enterprise servers, to big data hosted in the cloud.