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Connect MDP with Tableau
Connect Marketing Cloud Intelligence Data Pipelines with Tableau to easily query your data. With the MDP Tableau integration, you get harmonization capabilities with MDP’s ETL solution and Tableau’s advanced visualization tools.
You can connect your data from MDP to Tableau in two ways:
- MDP integration with Tableau (push method)
- MDP connector in Tableau (pull method)
Here’s a comparison of the two methods looking at which features are available:
| Features | MDP Integration with Tableau | MDP Connector in Tableau |
|---|---|---|
| Supported Tableau versions | Tableau Server 2019.2 and later Tableau Online fully supported Tableau Desktop 10.5 and later |
Tableau Server 2020.3 and later Tableau Online fully supported Tableau Desktop 2020.3 and later |
| Managing exposure of Tableau views | Inside MDP, and you can define which views are sent to each location. | You can’t manage views because the token is at the workspace level. All views are available to all users in the workspace. |
| Configuration | Inside MDP you can define where and what to send to Tableau, which server you want to use, frequency, and so on. | All configuration is inside Tableau, except for view refresh configuration. |
| Field setup | Inside MDP by an admin. | Inside Tableau by a Tableau creator. |
Known Issues:
- To prevent data source failures, all Tableau reports have unique names.
- You can add or remove dimensions and measurements in reports that are part of an existing Tableau data source. However, changing names of dimensions and measurements that are part of a data source can cause processing failures.
- If your Tableau Server instance is protected for external applications, ask your team to allow the following IPs according to your MDP environment.
| platform.datorama.com (AWS US) | platform-eu.datorama.com (AWS EU) | platform-us2.datorama.com (AZURE US) | platform-eu2.datorama.com (AZURE EU) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54.163.226.11 | 35.157.8.65 | 20.41.43.59 | 40.67.249.123 |
| 54.83.10.143 | 54.93.174.35 | 20.44.80.240 | 40.127.241.213 |
- Push Reports from MDP to Tableau
Use the push method to integrate your marketing data to create Tableau views, group them together, and then download them to Tableau Desktop. With the push method, you work in Salesforce Marketing Intelligence Data Pipelines. You can control where to send your data, which server to use, and which views you want to make available to your users. You can push a single view or multiple views. - Use a Connector in Tableau to Pull Reports from MDP
Connect to MDP from Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online, or Tableau Prep using the Datorama connector.
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