If you are a Tableau user who also uses SAP, getting access to your SAP data within Tableau can be a real headache. In this blog, we will introduce you to two approaches that will allow you to quickly and easily connect to your SAP BW, SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects data without having to install any additional software within your SAP landscape.
The conceptual diagram at the top of this blog illustrates the two approaches we offer to Tableau users:
Extract data from SAP into Tableau via Alteryx
If you already use Alteryx today, we don’t have to tell you what a great product it is. Our Alteryx Connectors for SAP are installed as plugins into Alteryx. They provide Alteryx users with the ability to extract data from SAP BW, SAP Business Suite applications and SAP BusinessObjects Universes and blend that data with data from other sources before publishing using Alteryx in-built capabilities to Tableau.
If you haven’t yet been introduced to the benefits of working with Alteryx you can find out more and download a free trial by clicking on this link.
If you haven’t yet been introduced to the benefits of working with Alteryx you can find out more and download a free trial by clicking on this link.
Extract data from SAP directly into Tableau
If you simply want to utilise your SAP data in Tableau then our Tableau Connectors for SAP allow you to quickly and easily extract data from SAP BW, SAP Business Suite applications and SAP BusinessObjects Universes into Tableau.
Summary
Our Alteryx Connectors for SAP and Tableau Connectors for SAP:
- Require no installation on SAP BW, SAP Business Suite or SAP BusinessObjects
- Require no additional hardware
- Connect directly to SAP BW, SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects using standard API’s
- Respect the authorisations in the underlying systems
- Allow data to be extracted from multiple SAP BW, SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects systems
- Are easy to use & quick to learn
- Free up countless hours of tedious data extraction, blending & preparation
- Enable big data & scalable analysis by circumventing the limitations of standard SAP tools
- Boost frequency with which analyses & reports can be prepared