Tableau access to Analytics (Alma & Primo)
Hi ExLibris
A number of institutions use Tableau (market leading BI platform) for Library Analytics
It would be awesome if ExLIbris would open/allow Alma & Primo Analytics to connect with Tableau (or other similar BI tools)
Currently Tableau can connect with Oracle BI (OBIEE) (which Alma/Primo Analytics use) but we need the connection
details and network access - refer documents below
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WKBtLB1W5o
• http://kb.tableau.com/articles/knowledgebase/tableau-and-obiee
• https://www.biconnector.com/
ExLibris users: Please post in the comments below if you use Tableau - or if you use a similar tool for Library Analytics please post the details
Cheers
Justin Kelly
Swinburne
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John Krug commented
Can I ask what the infrastructural and security issues might be?
Thanks,
John -
Due to infrastructural and security issues in the cloud it is not possible to open OBI to be accessed by Tableau.
We can recommend that you create APIs to access the Alma Analytics reports and then the xml of the reports can be used by external systems, for example Tableau. -
Michael Johnson commented
We use Tableau at Minnesota for many library data needs, and finding a path from Analytics into Tableau has proven to be frustrating and tedious. Allowing this would truly be a thing of beauty!