Custom Tableau Extensions Development

Transform Tableau dashboards into powerful business tools—custom extensions with GenAI, automation, and backend intelligence.

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Supercharge Your Dashboards

Move beyond standard visualizations. We co-build powerful, bespoke Tableau Extensions that integrate seamlessly with your dashboards to unlock new functionality, automate analysis, and harness the power of GenAI.

What's Possible?

A Tableau Extension is more than just a front-end widget; its true power comes from the backend API that does the heavy lifting. We work with your team to build a robust, scalable API that connects your Tableau dashboard to any service you need—from executing complex queries in data warehouses to integrating GenAI models for instant insights, triggering automated actions, and enforcing business logic too complex for Tableau alone.

Whether you need GenAI-powered summaries generated from selected data, custom calculators for what-if analysis, backend data actions to build audience segments, automated documentation generation, fully-branded embedded analytics portals, or data write-back capabilities, we build the custom solution that transforms your dashboards into powerful business tools.

Our approach empowers your team by building the solution together, with all code in a shared Git repository for full ownership and transparency.

Key Features

GenAI-Powered Analysis

Select data on your dashboard and get instant natural-language summaries and insights generated by AI models like Gemini or Claude.

Custom Business Logic

Embed complex calculators, pricing models, or forecasting tools directly into Tableau for dynamic what-if analysis.

Backend Data Actions

Trigger actions in your data warehouse like Snowflake directly from Tableau to build segments or run data quality checks.

Automated Documentation

Generate quotes, reports, or documentation on the fly based on filtered dashboard data without leaving Tableau.

Branded Embedded Analytics

Create fully-branded analytics portals that feel like your own product, powered by Tableau with custom features.

Data Write-Back

Enable users to input comments, forecasts, or corrections directly in dashboards with secure database write-back.

How It Works

1

Book Your Consultation

Schedule a discovery call to understand your dashboard needs, desired functionality, and technical environment.

2

Agree on the Plan

Review proposed extension features, backend architecture, timeline, and deliverables before development begins.

3

Discovery & Design

Map your business requirements to technical specifications and design the extension UI and backend API architecture.

4

Co-Development Sprints

Work directly with your engineers in paired programming sessions, building in shared Git repository for full transparency.

5

Deploy & Train

Deploy extension to your Tableau environment with complete knowledge transfer on architecture, API endpoints, and maintenance.

6

Pay Upon Delivery

Payment is due only when your custom extension is working in production and your team is fully trained.

Who Is This Service Perfect For?

Tableau Developers & Admins

Teams wanting to extend Tableau's capabilities beyond standard visualizations and native features.

Data & Analytics Teams

Organizations needing custom business logic, automated workflows, or AI-powered insights in their dashboards.

Product Teams

Companies building branded embedded analytics portals or customer-facing dashboard products.

Business Intelligence Leaders

Leaders looking to transform static dashboards into interactive, intelligent business tools.

Technical Architecture

Extension Architecture:
1. Front-End Extension: JavaScript-based Tableau Extension integrated into dashboard UI
2. Backend API: FastAPI or Flask application handling business logic, data processing, and external integrations
3. Data Warehouse Connection: Direct connections to Snowflake, BigQuery, or other warehouses for complex operations
4. GenAI Integration: Connections to Gemini, Claude, Llama, or other AI models for intelligent analysis
5. Authentication Layer: Secure API key authentication protecting all backend endpoints
6. Response Handling: Real-time communication between extension and backend with structured data exchange

Capabilities: Connect to data warehouses for complex queries, integrate GenAI models for analysis, trigger automated actions and pipelines, enforce complex business logic, send notifications and updates, write data back to databases securely.

Use Cases: GenAI-powered summaries and insights, custom calculators and what-if scenarios, backend data actions and segment building, automated documentation generation, branded embedded analytics portals, data write-back and user input collection.

Development Approach: Shared Git repository for full ownership, paired programming with knowledge transfer, best practices for API development and data modeling, scalable patterns for future extensions.

Built On: JavaScript Tableau Extensions API, Python FastAPI or Flask, Snowflake/BigQuery connectors, GenAI model APIs (Vertex AI, Anthropic, OpenAI), secure authentication, RESTful design.

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