Summary

The ability to extend Tableau is amazing! With dashboard extensions, you have an ever-growing library of Tableau/Salesforce and third-party extensions. These can extend the user interface, provide integration with backend systems and platforms, and enhance the user experience in many ways. We even looked at an example of writing your own dashboard extensions. The ability to write custom code and host it on your own servers gives you the ultimate flexibility and control as you extend Tableau’s capabilities.

Analytics extensions give you the ability to run R and Python scripts and connect to other analytics engines. You are also able to leverage the amazing predictive capabilities of CRM Analytics / Einstein Discovery and use AI to detect patterns, uncover insights, and guide your decisions and actions based on your data!

In the next chapter, we’ll turn our attention to relating various datasets together in Tableau using the data model, joins, and blends...