Using Tableau to report on SharePoint lists and libraries: A step by step guide

Tableau is one of the most renowned and accepted Business Intelligence tool for visually analysing the data by organisations all over the world. Tableau allows its users to create and distribute an interactive dashboard depicting the trends, variations, and density of the underlying data either in the form of graphs or charts. Tableau can connect to almost all types of data sources for fetching data. Data sources can be files, relational and Big Data; once the data is fetched it can be processed to meet the needs. Moreover, it allows data blending and real-time collaboration, which makes it very unique.

In this blog, we will cover:

  • How to generate a Tableau report using data from a SharePoint List
  • How we can integrate this Tableau report into a Modern SharePoint Site
  • How to create a replication from the SharePoint list to SQL Server using SQList. This will create all the schema and keep the SQL data and schema in sync with the SharePoint list.

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