Connect Planful and
Tableau with AI

Redbird AI syncs your financial planning data from Planful directly into Tableau dashboards. Finance teams stop manually exporting budget files, reconciling versions, and rebuilding reports every month. Your executive dashboards update automatically with the latest forecasts, actuals, and variance analysis.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync monthly budget vs actuals into executive financial dashboards

Automatically push finalized budget versions and actuals from Planful into Tableau after each close cycle. Finance leaders see real-time variance analysis without waiting for someone to export spreadsheets. Dashboards refresh with the latest plan data as soon as consolidation completes.

Build rolling forecast dashboards that update as scenarios change

Stream rolling forecast data from Planful into Tableau every time finance updates scenarios or assumptions. Department heads access interactive dashboards showing 12-month projections without requesting custom reports. Scenario modeling results appear in visual format immediately after planning cycles.

Push departmental actuals to cost center managers via Tableau dashboards

Sync actual spend by department, cost center, and GL account from Planful to tailored Tableau views for budget owners. Managers monitor their burn rate against plan without logging into Planful. Monthly variance explanations happen faster because everyone sees the same numbers.

Automate board presentation data prep from consolidated financials

Pull consolidated P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow data from Planful into pre-built Tableau board decks after each reporting period. CFOs stop rebuilding slides manually every quarter. Board materials reflect final consolidated numbers with full entity roll-ups and eliminations.

Create multi-year trend analysis combining planning data with operational metrics

Blend historical and forecast financial data from Planful with sales, headcount, and operational data already in Tableau. Analysts build cohesive dashboards showing how financial plans align with business drivers. Strategic planning conversations happen over unified datasets instead of disconnected spreadsheets.

Alert finance when Tableau dashboard usage indicates data refresh needed

Monitor which Tableau financial dashboards executives access most frequently and trigger data refreshes in Planful. Finance prioritizes consolidation and publishing for high-visibility reports. Teams avoid the embarrassment of leadership viewing stale budget data during critical reviews.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Planful and Tableau with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands Planful's financial planning structures and Tableau's data source architecture, so your budget hierarchies, scenario versions, and dimensional models sync correctly without custom mapping.

AI that speaks financial planning and data visualization

Redbird maps Planful's account hierarchies, entity structures, scenario versions, and time periods directly to Tableau's data extracts and live connections. The AI preserves dimensional relationships so your dashboards maintain drill-down paths from consolidated totals to department details. When Planful's chart of accounts changes or new entities are added, Redbird updates Tableau data sources automatically. You get dashboards that reflect actual planning structures without rebuilding data models every month.

Account hierarchy mapping
Scenario version tracking
Entity consolidation flows
Time period alignment
10×

faster financial dashboard updates than exporting, transforming, and republishing manually

No CSV exports, no data prep in spreadsheets, no manual Tableau data source refreshes

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Planful and Tableau simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Planful or Tableau.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Planful into Tableau, or from Tableau back into Planful. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from budget locks in Planful or dashboard interactions in Tableau — Redbird connects the workflows finance and analytics teams actually run.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Budget version finalized

Fires when a budget or forecast version is locked and approved in Planful.

Trigger

Actuals loaded from ERP

Triggers when actual financial data is imported and posted to Planful.

Trigger

Consolidation completed

Activates after multi-entity consolidation runs finish with eliminations applied.

Action

Export budget cube to data source

Extract dimensional budget data with hierarchies intact for Tableau consumption.

Action

Generate variance report dataset

Create plan vs actuals comparison data with all variance calculations included.

Action

Pull scenario comparison data

Export multiple planning scenarios side-by-side for scenario analysis dashboards.

Tableau
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Dashboard viewed by executive

Fires when specific users or groups access designated financial dashboards.

Trigger

Data source refresh fails

Triggers when a Tableau data extract or connection encounters errors.

Trigger

Dashboard filter changed

Activates when users drill into specific departments, entities, or time periods.

Action

Refresh data extract

Update Tableau data extracts with the latest information from connected sources.

Action

Publish dashboard to workspace

Deploy updated dashboards to specific Tableau sites or projects for user access.

Action

Update data source connection

Modify Tableau data source parameters, credentials, or connection strings programmatically.

Planful
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Tableau

Ready to connect your stack?

Stop manually bridging Planful and Tableau. Redbird AI syncs your financial planning data into live dashboards so finance teams spend time on analysis instead of data prep.

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