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Sync Tableau to Custom Destination

Sync Tableau data to Custom Destination

"Bring your own" SaaS connector, with all the great benefits. Although you will need to do a small amount of configuration yourself, you will get all the useful incremental sync, automated scheduling, alerting, and logging benefits of Census!
Want to do more than just look at Custom Destination data in Tableau? Census makes it easy to sync data from a single source of truth (data warehouse or database) to operational systems like Custom Destination to create data consistency across BI and operational tools.
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Sync Tableau to Custom Destination

"Bring your own" SaaS connector, with all the great benefits. Although you will need to do a small amount of configuration yourself, you will get all the useful incremental sync, automated scheduling, alerting, and logging benefits of Census!

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Tableau
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Sync to any custom destination
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Integration in Four Steps

Step 1: Connect Tableau

Step 2: Connect Custom Destination as a destination

You can connect to a Custom Destination by providing credentials to Census through an intuitive interface.

Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business

Write a SQL Statement. Select the records you want to sync from Tableau. Census will match records based on the unique identifier you provide (like email or ID).

Step 4: Schedule your sync

Choose your sync frequency with options to transfer data continuously, on a schedule, or triggered via our API.

Step 1: Connect a single source of truth

Connect to your Tableau data source using standard API or ODBC credentials.

Step 2: Connect Custom Destination

You can use an OAuth log-in flow to connect Census to Custom Destination directly via the Census Connections page.

Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business

Write a SQL Statement. Select the records you want to sync from your Tableau data source. Census will match records based on the unique identifier you provide (like email or ID).

Step 4: Schedule your sync

Choose your sync frequency with options to transfer data continuously, on a schedule, or triggered via our API.

Where can you sync your Tableau data in Custom Destination?

Objects and Fields

Every Census connector has a schema, which is made up of Objects and Fields. Objects are roughly analogous to tables in a database, whereas fields are like columns.

A single source of truth in all your tools

Census is the easiest way to share a consistent view of your data across your entire business.  Define your models, metrics, and business logic in your data warehouse and sync them to all your operational tools.

  • Create trust in consistent metrics
  • Automate confidently with clean data
  • Simplify your data integration strategy
  • Improve data security and visibility

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Advantages of Census

Build once. Reuse everywhere.

Once you define your models in dbt or in Census, you can sync them to all of the tools, so every team is using the same data to achieve their goals.

No more CSV files & Python scripts

Focus on building a data stack and improving data quality, not writing custom code to integrate with Sales & Marketing tools. Census takes care of getting the data into the hands of your business team. No Engineering favors required.

It just works. At scale.

Whether you sync 100 records or 100 million, we will keep your data in sync across your warehouse and your business tools. Census automatically navigates API failures and monitoring keeps you aware of worst case scenarios.

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Data Activation Use Cases

Syncing from Tableau

Connecting to Tableau

Tableau is a leading business intelligence tool recognized for its ability to make data exploration fast and easy. Report designers can create beautiful data visualization with a variety of chart types. This makes it a great tool for sharing data with professionals at any level in an organization. It also allows non-technical users to create customized dashboards.‍ Sometimes visualization is the best way to share data but more often, data is more useful in the tools that people use every day.

Now you can use the data in Tableau for more than just analytics and BI. With Tableau reverse ETL you can operationalize your data across your entire customer data stack.

Learn how to use Census with 👉 our Tableau Docs

Syncing to Custom Destination

Our Custom Destination API allows you to "bring your own" SaaS connector to Census. As a use case example, if you have a SaaS tool or a private API that we currently don't support, you can use our Custom Destination API to easily configure and start sending data to that tool.

Although you will need to do a small amount of configuration yourself, you still get all the incremental sync, automated scheduling, alerting, and logging benefits of Census!

Learn how to use Census with 👉 our Custom Destination Docs

Census connects to Tableau through your data source and syncs data to Custom Destination. With 50+ integrations (and counting!) and transparent pricing, it’s never been easier to start operationalizing your data. This is what we like to call Reverse ETL.

Census connects to Tableau and syncs data to Custom Destination. With 50+ integrations (and counting!) and transparent pricing, it’s never been easier to start operationalizing your data. This is what we like to call Reverse ETL.

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Census is the Data Activation platform of choice for companies who value scalability, observability, and performance.

#5 in the Top 50 Best Software Products of 2023The Leader in Reverse ETL on G2, 4 quarters in a row 🏆
Here's what reviewers on G2 have to say

"A fantastic tool that is only getting better."

Matthew C
Analytics Engineer

“Like that infomercial rotisserie — you just set it and forget it”

Matt N
Head of Growth

“Census just works”

Eric B
Director of Project Management

“An indispensable tool for BizOps and Go-to-market teams”

Michael T
Business Operations

"A fantastic tool that is only getting better."

Matthew C
Analytics Engineer

“Like that infomercial rotisserie — you just set it and forget it”

Matt N
Head of Growth

“Census just works”

Eric B
Director of Project Management

“An indispensable tool for BizOps and Go-to-market teams”

Michael T
Business Operations

I used to develop reverse ETL systems with Python and Airflow for destinations like Eloqua, Mixpanel, Braze, Intercom, and Salesforce. Every destination requires different data types, formats, rate limits, and API requests. Census saves me from maintaining my custom code, so I can spend more time to optimize the system itself.

Frances Fang
Sr Data Engineer

Census takes what the analytics team does out of static dashboards and into tools that the rest of the company uses, allowing us to actually deliver on the promise of being “data driven”.

Matt Nicosia
Director of Growth

“My favorite tool in our martech stack!!”

Allison K
Growth Marketing Manager
We make it easy to switch to Census.
Our Customer Success team will partner with you every step of the way to make sure you and your team are set up for long term success.

From your data warehouse to your favorite apps. Without code or engineers.

Start using Census today by booking a demo with one of our experts.