Alteryx and Tableau Direct connection

[John_Amourgianos]

Dear all,

I want to ask you, if there is any direct connection between Alteryx and Tableau, except the extract files?

Thank you in advance

[BrandonB · Accepted solution]

We have the publish to Tableau Server tool: https://help.alteryx.com/20214/designer/publish-tableau-server-tool 

Some organizations also like to write their data up to a SQL server or equivalent as a staging environment

[John_Amourgianos]

With the second option the data is not being published external?

[AngelosPachis · Accepted solution]

Hi @John_Amourgianos ,

Nope, the data won't be published externally via Alteryx and only those who have permission access to your database will be able to see the data. To iterate on@BrandonB point above, you can either publish your data directly to your Tableau Server via the Publish to Tableau Server tool (which essentially is creating those Tableau extracts you mentioned to your Tableau Server) or you can have a two-stage process where you use Alteryx to write to a database and then you can point your Tableau dashboards to read data from that database.

Hope that helps,

Angelos