Initially storing data with Tableau Online storage could sound like a good idea, mainly because you get it for free. From another side Tableau doesn't say they provide a DWH platform, so you can not expect any kind of production use-cases from the storage of Tableau Online. In the talk, we will go through the process of automatically duplicating your Tableau datasources to Amazon Redshift. That will enable us to be more flexible with scaling your data, be sure about backup strategies and many-many more points. We will introduce our python toolchain that helps us in a daily management of our BI.

1. S T Y L I G H T . C O M
Scaling your Tableau –
Migrating from Tableau Online
to a proper DWH solution.
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2. T a b l e a u O n l i n e D a t a S t o r a g e
M i g r a t i n g D a t a f r o m T a b l e a u O n l i n e
R e a d i n g T a b l e a u T D S f i l e
D W H w i t h A m a z o n R e d s h i f t
A G E N D A

3. S T Y L I G H T . C O M
Tableau Online Data Storage
Simple, Cheap, Just works

5. P i c t u r e o f t h e o l d s e t u p

8. Pros and Cons
• E a s y t o s t a r t u s i n g
• W o r k s f o r f r e e
• A l l d a t a s o u r c e s i n o n e p l a c e
• U n i f i e d r o u t i n e

9. Pros and Cons
• H a r d t o s c a l e
• N o t p r o d u c t i o n r e a d y
• N o b a c k u p s
• N o c o n t r o l o v e r d a t a
• N o c o n t r o l o v e r f a i l u r e s

10. S T Y L I G H T . C O M
Migrating Data from
Tableau Online

11. • T a b l e a u i s a g o o d D S e d i t o r
• W e a l r e a d y h a v e s o m a n y D S
• C u r r e n t t a s k s a n d s p r i n t s

13. S T Y L I G H T . C O M
Reading Tableau TDS file

14. P i c t u r e o f t h e o l d s e t u p

17. Issues, plans
• W e h a v e a l l D S a c c e s s i b l e
• W e k n o w w h e r e d a t a c o m e s f r o m
• S t r u c t u r e r e - c r e a t i o n
• M i g r a t i o n w i t h o u t a n y m a n u a l
i n p u t

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DWH with Amazon Redshift
.. and other cool things

21. P i c t u r e o f t h e o l d s e t u p

23. Benefits
• C o n t r o l o v e r b a c k u p s
• C o n t r o l o v e r r e f r e s h e s
• S c a l e D W H u p t o p e t a b y t e s c a l e
• E a s y t o a d d n e w E T L s t a g e s ( E M R )
• M o r e o p e n f o r n e w c h a l l e n g e s

26. S T Y L I G H T . C O M
Future plans

27. Make it even cooler!
• O p e n S o u r c e o u r P y t h o n t o o l s
• I n t e r n a l D W H m a p p i n g s e r v e r
• F l e x i b l e t o i n t e g r a t e n e w t h i n g s
• G o o g l e S p r e a d s h e e t i n t e g r a t i o n

28. Thanks for your
attention!

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