# Bring Your Own Connector to Tableau Cloud (BYOC) #Tableau #TableauCloud #salesforce

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2026-02-15
- **Format:** Short · 1 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/bring-your-own-connector-to-tableau-cloud-byoc-tableau-tableaucloud-salesforce
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtddXsauog

I explain Tableau Cloud's new Bring Your Own Connector (BYOC) feature, now in pilot. It lets organisations deploy custom drivers and connectors for proprietary systems or unsupported databases, removing a key barrier to migrating from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud.

## Key takeaways

- BYOC, borrowed from the 'Bring Your Own Device' concept, lets you deploy custom drivers and connectors for proprietary or unsupported databases on Tableau Cloud.
- Previously Tableau Cloud only supported generally available drivers, so bespoke databases were hard to connect, even though Tableau Server already allowed it.
- BYOC unlocks web authoring, published data source extracts and Tableau Prep flows while keeping site-level governance and usage monitoring.
- The feature is aimed at enterprise organisations trying to migrate from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/bring-your-own-connector-to-tableau-cloud-byoc-tableau-tableaucloud-salesforce

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