Connect SAP ECC-R/3 and Tableau

Connecting SAP ECC-R/3 and Tableau could allow a company to transfer financial, operational, or supply chain data from SAP into Tableau for advanced reporting and visualization. This could support more informed business analysis and decision-making by enabling users to create custom dashboards and reports based on real-time or scheduled SAP data extracts.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between SAP ECC-R/3 and Tableau around the way you work — not as an off-the-shelf connector, but to fit your systems.

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Why connect SAP ECC-R/3 and Tableau?

A company operating both SAP ECC-R/3 and Tableau could benefit from connecting these systems to enable more effective data-driven decision-making. If SAP ECC-R/3 and Tableau were not connected, staff could be forced to manually extract data from SAP and import it into Tableau, which increases the risk of errors, duplicated effort, and delays. Without a connection, there is also a risk that reports and dashboards in Tableau reflect outdated or inconsistent figures compared to what is stored in SAP, leading to decisions based on incomplete or stale information. By enabling data exchange, a connection could allow transactional and master data from SAP ECC-R/3 to be made available for analysis and visualization in Tableau. Commonly exchanged data between an ERP system like SAP ECC-R/3 and a business intelligence platform like Tableau could include sales figures, financial records, inventory levels, procurement data, and other operational metrics. Ultimately, the specific data that can be exchanged would depend on what each system exposes through its API and would need to be determined according to the requirements and technical capabilities in each individual situation.

How System2System builds an integration

Connectors

We connect to each system through the interface it offers — an API, a database, a file exchange or a webhook — and handle authentication, rate limits and retries.

Mapping

Fields rarely line up one to one. We map and transform the data so both systems receive it in the shape they expect.

Workflow

We define what triggers an exchange, in which direction data flows and which system takes precedence when the two disagree.

Monitoring

Every exchange is logged. Failures are flagged and can be replayed, so nothing disappears without anyone noticing.

What can actually be exchanged?

That depends on what SAP ECC-R/3 and Tableau make available through their APIs, on the licences and modules in use, and on the version each system runs. Which records are synchronised, in which direction and how often, is something we determine together before any work starts.

We are happy to look at your specific situation and tell you what is feasible — including when the answer is that it is not.