Tableau Desktop as a Linked (Open) Data Front-End via ODBC

© 2012 OpenLink Software, All rights reserved.
Using
Tableau Desktop BI
as a Linked (Open) Data client
via
Virtuoso’s ODBC Driver
By Kingsley Idehen (@kidehen)
Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software

Situation Analysis
Agility is the timeless pursuit of
enterprises and individuals alike.
In all cases, access, integration,
and dissemination of data is
pivotal.

Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud

Situation Analysis
Data is growing exponentially along the
following dimensions:
•Volume -- production
•Velocity – dissemination fire-hoses
•Variety – APIs and underlying data Models
•Virtuosity – insight discovery expectations.
All of this happens while the total hours in day
remains constant at 24 hours!

Product Value Proposition
Enterprise and Individual Agility
via Data Virtualization, without
compromising performance,
scalability, security, or
investments in existing
infrastructure!

Product Architecture
A high-performance, scalable,
secure, and operating-system-
independent server designed
to handle contemporary
challenges associated with
data access, data integration,
and data management.

Data Virtualization Middleware
An in-built middleware layer
(“Sponger”) for creating
Linked Data Views over
Heterogeneous Data
Sources.

Pluggable Linked Data Cartridges/Drivers
A collection of prefabricated
and customizable Data
Extraction, Transformation,
and Lookup cartridges
(drivers) covering a vast
ranges of data formats and
data access protocols.

Sophisticated Content Crawler
DBMS hosted Content
Crawler that leverages
loosely coupled binding to
the Sponger Middleware
component for
transformation of
unstructured and semi-
structured data into Linked
Data.

How Do I Get Going?
 Download, install, and experience the power of coherent
integration of disparate data sources, data access protocols,
and data representation formats.
 In an nutshell, commence exploitation of powerful business
intelligence, socially enhanced collaboration, data virtualization,
and entity analytics without writing a line of code!
 Turn "Big Data" into exploitable "Smart Data"
without compromise!

How Does Virtuoso Expose LOD Cloud
Data To ODBC Clients?
 Creation of ODBC accessible SQL Views using
SPASQL (SPARQL inside SQL) that targets local
data
 Ditto via SPARQL-FED (Federated SPARQL) for
external SPARQL endpoints.
Example instances include:
 DBpedia (Linked Data version of Wikipedia content and LOD Cloud nexus)
 URIBurner Service for “on the fly” transformation of data from: LinkedIn,
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Freebase, Disqus etc.
 Live Linked Open Data LOD Cloud Cache.

Virtuoso ODBC Driver Installation
&
Configuration

Install Virtuoso ODBC Driver
Installer
Wizard
Screen
#1

Installer
Wizard
Screen
#2

Installer
Wizard
Screen
#3

Installer
Wizard
Screen
#4

Installer
Wizard
Screen
#5

Installer
Wizard
Screen
#6
Done!

Using Tableau Desktop & ODBC
Start
Application

Attaching External Tables via ODBC -1
Start External
Table
Attachment
Wizard

Attaching External Tables via ODBC - 2
Table Attachment
Wizard will
automatically use the
ODBC Administrator
to Lookup Existing
Data Source Names
(DSNs)

ODBC Driver Manager
Provides a List of Existing
ODBC Data Source
Names (DSNs)

Select the Virtuoso
“Demo Server
Data” Source Name
(DSN)

Configuring Selected Virtuoso ODBC DSN - 1
Connecting To
Virtuoso Database
Server Instance.

Configuring Selected Virtuoso ODBC DSN - 2
Select a Specific
Database/Qualifier
for ODBC session

Setting Up Remote Table Utilization -- 1
List of Tables for
Selected
Database/Qualifie
r .

Setting Up Remote Table Utilization -- 2
Select a Specific
Table

Attaching Table To Tableau
Select a Specific
Table

Report Creation Step -- 1
Set Attached
Table
Utilization
Mode.

Query Results

Benefits?
Progressive Intelligence Accumulation via
Links!
Structured
Data
Structured
Data
Structured
Data
Structured
Data

End Game?
Our Agility !!
Your Agility++ Their Agility++
My Agility++

OpenLink Company Overview
 OpenLink Software is a privately-held company founded in 1992 by its President &
CEO, Kingsley Idehen. The company is an industry acclaimed technology innovator
in the following areas:
 ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE-DB compliant Data Access Drivers for Oracle,
SQL Server, Informix, Ingres, Sybase, Progress, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
 High-Performance & Scalable Multi-Model (Relational & Graph) Database
Technology
 Data Integration Middleware (Data Virtualization Technology across a wide variety of
Protocols & Formats)
 Linked Data Deployment & Management
 Web Application Server Technology
 Socially-enhanced Distributed Collaborative Applications Platforms (Weblogs, Wikis,
Feed Aggregation and Syndication, Web File Systems, Discussion Forums, etc.)
 Identity Management.

Products & Services
Software Products
• OpenLink Universal Data Access Drivers (UDA) -
High-performance data access drivers for ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE DB that provide
transparent access to enterprise databases.
• OpenLink Virtuoso - available in single server and cluster editions that are deployed in cloud
and/or enterprise modes.
• OpenLink Data Spaces Platform and Applications
• OpenLink Ajax Toolkit
• OpenLink Data Explorer
• An Open Source Data Access SDK for ODBC
All OpenLink products are delivered by download from the Internet (http, ftp, etc.).
Temporary licenses are issued upon download and may be extended as needed, on a
case-by-case basis. Permanent licenses are issued once payment is received.

Products & Services
Professional and Support Services
• OpenLink Product Support provides front-line email and phone support,
web-based online support, and a variety of premium services such as phone,
emergency, and onsite support.
• Our Support staff is comprised of individuals with extensive knowledge of data
access, data migration, database administration, programming APIs, and other
relevant skills.
• Services are sold in either Standard "Bronze" or Premium "Platinum" Support
packages, with varying hours of availability, response times, etc.
• We also offer Custom Development, Training, and other Consultancy services.
These services can be offered on- or off-site. Expenses for travel,
accommodations, food, etc., associated with on-site services are charged
separately.
Rates start at US$250 per person per hour.

Office Locations
USA
OpenLink Software, Inc
10 Burlington Mall Road
Suite 265
Burlington, MA 01803
Tel.: +1 781 273 0900
Fax: +1 781 229 8030
UK
OpenLink Software Ltd.
Airport House
Purley Way
Croydon, Surrey CR0 0XZ
Tel.: +44 (0)20 8681 7701
Fax: +44 (0)20 8681 7702

Additional Information
 OpenLink Software:
 OpenLink Software
 OpenLink Virtuoso
 Universal Data Access Drivers
 Social Media Data spaces
 http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/ (weblog)
 https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/p
osts (Google+)
 https://twitter.com/#!/kidehen (Twitter)
 Hashtag: #LinkedData (Anywhere) .

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