If you want to extract data from SAP BW, SAP Business Suite applications (including SAP ECC, SAP CRM, SAP SCM etc.) or SAP BusinessObjects directly into Tableau, you should take a look at the DVW Tableau Connector for SAP.
Check out the demo video below.
The connector has the following key features:
- Extract data from SAP Tables & Views
- Extract data from SAP BW Queries & Views
- Extract data from SAP BW InfoProviders (including MultiProviders, InfoSets, InfoCubes, DataStore Objects & InfoObjects)
- Extract data from SAP BusinessObjects Universes
- Extract data from SAP BusinessObjects Webi
- Data access controlled by standard SAP Authorizations
- Runs on all versions of SAP BW and SAP Business Suite including SAP BW on HANA and SAP Business Suite on HANA
- Small foot-print. Requires no additional hardware or infrastructure to run.
- Simple installation. Be up and running from day 1!