Integrating Tableau to the Platform

This section describes the main elements of the Tableau integration. To integrate any Platform application with Tableau we can use the Web Data Connector (WDC), which is a web-based technology (HTML and JavaScript) that describes how the data source can be reached by Tableau solutions (Server/Desktop).

The Tableau integration is composed of three parts:

  • the Tableau libraries for the Data Service,

  • the Tableau libraries for the Execution Service, and

  • the Tableau UI components for the Platform web application.

Note:

Note that, in Kubernetes deployments, applications from two different namespaces of the same cluster cannot communicate with each other through their external URLs. This limitation means that the Platform application and the Tableau server need to be deployed in different Kubernetes clusters.