Create a Tableau Web Data Connector for Alma Analytics
Alma Analytics users who also use Tableau would benefit from a generic Tableau Web Data Connector (WDC) available via the Alma Integrations page to integrate Alma Analytics into Tableau vizes via the Ex Libris API.
The WDC could generate report-specific field structure based on the schema/xsd section of the API report XML, making the addition of Alma Analytics report data to Tableau as easy opening an Excel spreadsheet.
Completed, as per comment from Nov. 28 2016
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Ttacycurammeng commented
nice work Joan.
for more info on Tableau Web Data : https://goo.gl/7Y5bwi -
Thank you for your suggestion which is as follows:
Alma Analytics users who also use Tableau would benefit from a generic Tableau Web Data Connector (WDC) available via the Alma Integrations page to integrate Alma Analytics into Tableau vizes via the Ex Libris API.
The WDC could generate report-specific field structure based on the schema/xsd section of the API report XML, making the addition of Alma Analytics report data to Tableau as easy opening an Excel spreadsheet.We see that you already saw a previously-opened suggestion on this topic titled "Tableau access to Analytics (Alma & Primo)" opened on February 8th.
This "previously-opened suggestion" was answered as follows: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.In the previously opened suggestion it was further asked "Can I ask what the infrastructural and security issues might be?"
The “infrastructural and security issues” referred to in the answer are as follows:
Alma is cloud based multi-tenant SaaS solution. Like any other cloud based SaaS, direct access to the solution’s database goes against any security best practices. That is the reason that in Alma we are investing a great deal of effort in the creation of integration interfaces in the form of APIs through which users can integrate and access their data. APIs provides a secured and scalable way to access data and integrate with systems.
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Davin Pate commented
For more information everyone should also see Joan's presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJAVTFgaBek
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Justin Kelly commented
Great work Joan! - can't wait for an official way to connect Tableau and Alma Analytics