Hey everyone, I'm new to Quality Center and I'm looking for some input on the 'best' way to connect to the back end QC data.
I'm starting on a project to use Tableau to visualize QC data, and I'm researching different ways to connect to the data. Long term, I think we'd like to build a sql data mart that we can point Tableau to, but for now we'll have to go against Quality Center directly (or as directly as possible).
I understand QC supports ODBC, and has an API we could potentially use as well. Is it possible to use ODBC to connect directly and bring data across right into Tableau? All the threads I've read talk about getting data out of QC and into Excel. That could work but it would be a smoother process of we could bypass Excel. Is what I'm hoping for possible? What would you guys/gals suggest for an approach?
Thanks!
Andrew