How could could one connect power bi and algolia? - powerbi

How could could one connect power bi and algolia? I did some research, and I've found no examples. Somewhat related, I've seen no mention of how to connect mongodb in a meaningful way.

The PowerBI community takes ideas for new connectors and other features. There is one for MongoDB to which you can add your vote.
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/7017782-mongodb
It seems that algolia has not yet been suggested as a desired new connector. Maybe you want to go and suggest it. Suggestions with many votes are more likely to be developed than ones with few votes.

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Options to create BI dashboard regarding MS Exchange

The company I work for has asked if I could try to create a dashboard that encorporates different sources but all reflect various aspect of the network status. One thing they asked if it we could show stuff like the spam rates for the entire company or delivery exception. I've tried to look for this, but I could not find if there is a API that I could use to get this type of information. Does microsoft support this kind of reporting?
kind regards,
Vincent

Power BI Linking and Sharing Questions

I was wondering if I can connect Power BI server (not desktop) directly to the database I use.
By doing this, if possible, skipping going through pbi desktop.
And one more thing, can I share the dashboard as a secure link ?
I'd like to share the dashboard directly and in a simpler way so I won't run into people not wanting to use powerbi and have more flexibility with it.
Maybe someone can answer those questions for me so I won't have to keep wondering.
Thank you in advance!
In case it wasn't clear I m new to powerbi so if these questions sound like fantasy you know why..

IBM DB2 ODBC drivers - DB2COPY1 or IBMDBCL1 for a Power BI connection?

I'm working in a team of people who connect Power BI to a db2 database in order to create reports. However, people are doing this via two different drivers, and this is creating compatibility problems when refreshing each others' reports.
I want to get everyone using the same driver for consistency & compatibility, but I'm not sure which is best for purpose.
The two drivers are:
IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER DB2COPY1 (appears under the 'System DSN' tab in ODBC Data Source Administrator)
IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER IBMDBCL1 (appears under the 'User DSN' tab in ODBC Data Source Administrator)
Does anyone know what the practical difference is between the two please? And is either considered industry standard for connecting to db2 from Power BI? I don't really know anything about what the drivers are doing behind the scenes. I had a look at this page but couldn't find anything explaining why you might choose one over another.
I see the same:
The fact that you have two of them doesn't mean you have compatibility problems.
Keep going like that, you are good to go.
Does anyone know what the practical difference is between the two
please?
Yes, one is for your User and the other is for the whole System.
And is either considered industry standard for connecting to db2 from
Power BI?
Yes, you should use the standard connection that Power BI provides out of the box

Power BI to PolyBase to Cloudera Data Platform?

Does anyone know if it's possible to connect a Power BI report to data in Cloudera Data Platform via PolyBase? I know you can get PolyBase to work with CDH, but I've not seen anything about CDP.
You should be able to connect to CDP via Impala:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-connect-impala
The reason that you may not find much yet on connecting to the Cloudera Data Platform, CDP is that it is the newest generation of the Big Data Platform.
Another thing to note, is that CDP is an entire platform, so there are many things you may want to connect with. The most likely tools being Hive and Impala and the most likely forms being the Data Hub and the Data Platform.
The good news:
Though it will take some time for the blogosphere to catch up, and articles to be written or re-written, CDP pretty much encompasses the capabilities of its predecessors CDH and HDP. As such, if you have something that works with either CDH or HDP in the field of connecting to data, it is almost certain to be possible with CDP as well.
To answer concretely: It is definitely possible to leverage any BI tool, including Power BI on top of the data in CDP.
Full Disclosure: I am an Employee of Cloudera.

Bloomberg data into Power BI

Have seen a few mentions on pulling Bloomberg pricing data into Power BI, with most referencing a REST API but I can't seem to find any good examples on how to implement. I have a Bloomberg license, but have been struggling on how to marry the two without pulling Bloomberg data into Excel and then referencing in Power BI. Anyone have any luck on this front?
I'd prefer to avoid the Excel route as I'd like to be able to choose dates, assets, etc in the Power BI report and then refresh dynamically rather than open Excel every time and then refresh the Power BI report.
Thanks in advance.
I'm sure there's a way to load data via R with the Rblpapi library. Might try going down this route. I don't have a license so I'm unable to test.
Documentation here:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html
You'll be glad to know that Bloomberg Connector is part of Power BI April release !
There does not currently seem to be an easy way of doing this. I have been exploring using C#. I found this tutorial which provides a lot of detail on connecting to the Bloomberg API using C#, and this tutorial on pushing data into Power BI using C#. There might be a way by connecting the concepts in both tutorials. If anyone has any better ideas I would love to hear them.