Our enterprise management database is housed in Business Objects Universes. I'm looking for our Power BI analysts to create Power BI reports by connecting to universes.
This link says such a connector was available: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-ca/blog/power-bi-connectivity-to-sap-businessobjects-bi-now-generally-available/
It also says it is no longer available:
Update May 2016: SAP BO connectivity is no longer available. Microsoft
Power BI has new SAP BW and SAP HANA connectors. Learn more about
these connectors.
Does this mean that I can use the SAP BW and/or SAP HANA connectors to connect to the SAP BO universe? or is connectivity to universe not possible anymore?
The following link from Power BI Ideas says that the connector was removed altogether: https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=8903cb67-e1df-4014-8b36-eaae3c4ba00c
Administrator on 12/7/2020 10:45:41 PM Unfortunately, the Business
Objects connector was removed due to a number of reasons.
Following are similar ideas but there is no response:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=d6b2decd-89e0-480a-ab62-c08a809db281
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=fd98c963-549d-eb11-89ee-281878bda47d
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=4cc55370-2291-4b90-9606-957f5727108f
How to connect to SAP BO universe via Power BI?
How to connect to SAP BO universe via Power BI?
Either through a custom connector, an ODBC connector, or if BO supports standard web protocols. Looks like CData has an ODBC driver.
But the recommended approach create new "semantic layer" using Power BI Datasets that load the same data and bypass BO.
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we are evaluating both products, Snowflake as a data warehouse and PowerBI as the visualisation platform for dashboarding / reporting needs.
We have a requirement to use the Snowflake with the AWS PrivateLinks, which make the out of the box tools that come with PowerBI Desktop (and Service) as useless when user wants to use the SSO.
So currently I've setup the ODBC connection using the Snowflake's ODBC driver and Windows ODBC Settings. When I use the Get Data -> ODBC -> MyNewConnection I can't see the option of DirectQuery.
I'd like to ask for help if you know how can I setup the DirectQuery type of connection with the ODBC Connector to Snowflake ?
Correct, if you are using PowerBI SSO option in the PowerBI service based on this, Privatelink is not supported .
If you have PowerBI Gateway, then the Privatelink should work.
Use of the Gateway would not allow authenticator=externalbrowser and the only option is Username and Password to login. The authenticator=externalbrowser is only allowed for PowerBI Desktop when used with ODBC generic driver but then you will lose Direct Query option as you noticed.
If these options are limiting, feel free to open a feature request with Microsoft to support Privatelink through PowerBI SSO.
ODBC connections don't support DirectQuery. There a probably a couple of options:
Build your own. Use the Data Connector SDK to build your own extension that enables DirectQuery
Use the Progress ODBC DataDirect ODBC driver. Details can be found here
However, before you go down either of these routes (and assuming you haven't already done this) I would talk to your Snowflake account manager to see if there is any way of getting PowerBI Snowflake native connections to work with your setup
I have created a dashboard on Power BI desktop, without realising that there is second version of Power BI RS for creating dashboards for an on-premise Power BI server. I have failed to upload my dashboard either as a .PBIX nor as a template .PBIT to our on-premise Power BI server. Is there any way to convert/import/migrate my work (nearly 20 hours effort) into the on-premise Power BI server without having to re-create everything again?
All this was much easier in Qliksense cloud/on-prem!
The only method I am aware of to have the same report in both the PowerBI.com service and in Report Server PBIRS would be to re-build the report you created for the PowerBI.com service using "Power BI Desktop for Report Server" and have two versions.
You cannot use the PowerBI.com cloud version of Desktop to publish to PBIRS Report Server since they are different products on different versions. The PowerBI.com cloud version has features that are not available in PBIRS Report Server.
I want Power BI Service (not desktop) to connect to a private mongo database. I have only seen solutions using Power BI Connnector with ODBC drivers which are very poor.
Is there a better solution like direct connection to the mongo database?
This question is generic and may have multiple answers. I've been in Power BI world for a few years and curious to know the technical differences between MSBI & Power BI. Both belong to Microsoft products and why they have a couple of Business Intelligence in their branch.
Power BI Consists of:
Power BI Desktop
Power BI Service
Report Server
MSBI Consists of:
SSRS - SQL Server Reporting Service
SSIS - SQL Server Integration Service
SSAS - SQL Server Analytic Service
So as it shows, the only common part in Power BI and MSBI is the reporting services. However, Data manipulation and modeling is far more superior in Power BI compared to in SSRS. Also Power BI uses an SSAS model behind the picture for whatever modeling capacities it provides.
Microsoft Business Inteligence (MSBI) include many things like ,SQL Server ,SQl Server Integration service(SSIS), SSRS, and SSAS as well.
So role and responsibilities are totally different of MSBI and Power BI.
MSBI developer expertise in (Export Transport and Load) ETL development ,Data warehousing and reporting as well but can't aspect same with Power BI developer.
We need to be able to publish PowerBI reports locally (versus publishing to the PowerBI service/website). We're running SQL Server 2014, because we do not feel SQL Server 2016 is mature enough to use yet (maybe in a year or two).
What options do we have for publishing PowerBI reports to some local resource (e.g. SSRS, a static web page, etc.)? Can we publish to SSRS 2014 (in SQL Server 2014)?
You can publish to an on-premises Pyramid Analytic server.
Microsoft collaborated with Pyramid Analytics to develop the Power BI
Desktop. Pyramid Analytics’ on-premise server-based technology
complements Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, leveraging all the
features of the Microsoft BI stack. You can now publish a Power BI
Desktop file to Pyramid Analytics Server, and more features will be
added over the next few months to enable seamless integration. We’re
excited to collaborate in accelerating the delivery of innovative BI
features that customers want and need most.
Source.
Currently, only technical preview of SSRS 2016 vNext supports PowerBI integration. SSRS Blog
One option to run it locally today is to manually distribute PBIX files, and view them in PowerBI desktop.
Or you can run that technical preview, of course. You could set up a separate instance solely for PowerBI reports, and carry on using 2014 for everything else.