Working with Tableau

Tableau is business intelligence software that helps people see and understand their data. Integrating Tableau in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud enables you to see metadata from Tableau Server and Tableau Online in Collibra Data Catalog.

In this section, we describe how you can ingest Tableau metadata in Collibra Data Catalog and synchronize the metadata using the lineage harvester, a standalone Java application. This method has numerous advantages over integration via the Data Catalog user interface.

Important Please note the following important points regarding this integration method:

It is a cloud-only feature.
It is currently available only to customers who do not need to migrate existing Tableau assets to the new operating model, which applies only to the new integration method.
The new Tableau operating model is only available in Collibra versions 2021.10 and newer.
The two Tableau integration methods—Tableau integration via the Data Catalog and the new integration method via lineage harvester—coexist, and you are free to use the method of your choosing.

We will soon make available a migration tool for those who would like to benefit from this integration method, but need to migrate existing Tableau assets.