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Integrating BI Tools in Catalog​

Your BI tool onboarding can either be:

  • Catalog managed: you give us admin credentials and you have nothing else to do
  • Client managed: you use the castor-extractor package (which we provide for you) to extract the information we need and you then send them over to Catalog

To integrate Looker, Metabase, Tableau, Qlik or Mode, Catalog provides a PyPi package (for other BI tools see Dashboard API). Unlike Warehouses, we do not have direct access to your tool. We let you run the agent to extract the information that we need and send us the output files.

Client Managed​

During your Trial​

  • We will only ask you to run the package once; you can upload the resulting files directly in the app
  • The Dashboard section in Catalog will thus not be synced throughout your trial
  • Not to worry, after your trial, we have everything needed to keep your Dashboard sections up to date

To get things working quickly, here's a Google Colab to run swiftly our package. Just create a copy and input your credentials 😉

You can also follow the installation instructions here and run the castor-extractor locally.

Check out the requirements by technology 👇

Once your trial is over​

  • To keep your Dashboard section up to date after your trial, we will ask you to schedule the extraction at your desired frequency (up to 1x/day)
  • To send us the output files, we will provide you with a GCP bucket so that you can automatically push them

Check out your tool​

What if a BI Tool technology isn't covered ?​

If your BI tool technology is not listed as one of our integrations, we've got you covered with:

BI Importer

Basically, we provide a list of the necessary metadata we need to get things to show up in Catalog. You should explore the metadata you can access and format it into our templates.

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task, just try filling in a couple examples by hand. This way, you will be able to test out Catalog's main functionalities.

📣 Please reach out to the sales or ops team for more details !