Partners Bring NLG to Tableau; Developers Build New Custom
Integrations
SEATTLE, Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau
Software (NYSE: DATA) announced today that it has delivered new
APIs that make it possible for developers to build new experiences
for its customers and extend the possibilities of Tableau.
Developers also have access to Tableau's Developer Portal,
Tableau's community for developers to share, support and engage
with fellow developers.
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"Tableau is opening up our platform to provide more choice and
flexibility to our customers," said Francois Ajenstat, Chief
Product Officer at Tableau. "It's about enabling developers to
build new experiences for people to more easily see and understand
their data. It's about enabling automation and simplification to
deploy Tableau. And it's unleashing opportunities for developers to
integrate embedded analytics into every area of the business."
Integrating With Your Business Systems
Tableau's APIs give developers the flexibility to connect with
any data source and integrate Tableau in any application for easy
embedded analytics. The Tableau Community has used these APIs to
build new Web Data Connectors, embed Tableau visualizations into
web sites, scrape data and create Tableau extracts, and build a
tracking tool to follow interactions with visualizations. These are
just a few of the customized integrations with Tableau that help
businesses make use of their data no matter where it's stored,
share insights with their customers in real-time and interact with
Tableau in the way that works best for their employees and
communities.
"We're dedicated to helping everyone make use of their data,
wherever it lives," said Craig
Bloodworth, Chief Technology Officer at The Information Lab.
"Tableau's Web Data Connector makes it easy for us to build
connectors that tap into the world of data on the web and help all
Tableau users discover brand new insights and make quick
decisions."
Extending the Possibilities with Tableau
Tableau partners are already taking advantage of new Tableau
APIs to bring the power of natural language generation (NLG) to
Tableau. Automated Insights, Narrative Science and Yseop have
leveraged the Tableau JavaScript API enhancements to bring Tableau
customers new ways to tell stories with their data.
According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
and Analytics Platforms* report, "Natural-language generation of
insights is the next phase in the evolution from standard reporting
to storytelling with descriptive text to augment the visually
depicted content."
"Our extension, Narratives for Tableau, enables Tableau Server,
Tableau Public and Tableau Online customers to generate intelligent
narratives about their data visualizations that can be easily
embedded and shared," said Stuart
Frankel, CEO of Narrative Science. "Advanced NLG enables
communication and sharing of data-driven insights more easily and
effectively and the market agrees. Narratives for Tableau has only
been available for a few weeks but the demand has exceeded our
expectations."
Automating and Simplifying Tableau Deployment
Tableau's new APIs can help streamline deployments and automate
business processes:
- Automate administrative tasks with the REST APIs
- The Tableau REST API has been expanded with more metadata
information options, user result filtering, and the ability to
return to your Tableau Server version.
- Leverage Data Integration and Data Prep processes
- Using the Web Data Connector, refresh an external Data Prep job
from Tableau while remaining in your flow of your analysis.
- Create a template workbook in Tableau and easily deploy that
across multiple servers and/or databases
- Keep your data source connection up-to-date with the new
Document API
- Extend core Tableau capabilities with value added third-party
solutions
"Alation helps organizations using Tableau Server to fully
embrace self-service analytics while lowering the barriers to user
compliance with data governance policies," said Satyen Sangani, CEO of Alation. "We're excited
about Tableau's new APIs because they will enable us to further
enhance our joint customers' experience by surfacing more data
governance related information directly to Tableau users from
within their data visualizations."
Sharing Ideas Among the Tableau Developer Community
Tableau 10's new APIs were created with input from the Tableau
Community through its Developer Portal. The portal is designed for
developers to access the APIs and SDKs, get samples, share best
practices, get support from the community and engage with other
developers.
The APIs are available now as part of Tableau 10, the latest
version of the company's software that was launched on August 16.
*Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and
Analytics Platforms" by, Josh
Parenteau, Rita Sallam,
Cindi Howson, Joao Tapadinhas,
Kurt Schlegel, Thomas Oestreich, 4
February 2016.
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