I would like to access the aggregated data of a chart in a Crystal Report. It seems there are many different Web services such as SAP BO RESTful Web Service, Crystal Reports REST WebService, OpenDocument Web service and it is - to be honest - a bit confusing.
Does anyone know if accessing the aggregated data of a Crystal Report via a Web Service is possible?
If so, which web service is the correct one?
In the best case I would expect to get the data in XML or JSON format in return.
Thanks for your suggestions. :)
I'm not an expert on Crystal Reports, but you can already eliminate OpenDocument for this scenario, as this is used to open a document hosted in the BI Platform, and display it in the browser. The use case for OpenDocument is to provide inter- and intra-document links as well as allow you to link from outside the BI Platform to a specific document.
Using the Crystal Report REST SDK, you could perhaps use the OData protocol to retrieve the necessary information. Have a look at the RESTful Web Services documentation to see if that provides what you need (OData is described in section 3.6).
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I have a log analysis tool as a Java based web application with html/jsp front end. Java backend receives real-time log data from few different agents/datasources and does ML/analysis and then stores insights on a file system, accessible only to Java backend. Now my users login to the system using a browser and access Java backend and insights using rest endpoints in the form of HTML/jsp reports/dashboards.
All sounds good but my users are complaining that UI is not production grade. So I am searching for different solutions to build a nicer UI experience for my users and I am looking into Power BI embedded solution.
How to integrate power bi embedded to serve insights that continuously change behind the scenes? how does it work in this use case knowing that my insights are only accessible to my Java backend and can only be served using Rest End points?
Also are there any better alternative solutions?
I am currently running WSO2 Analytics on a windows server but I want implement the analysing part somehow that a client can connect to the server and do some processing like visualization on its own rather than all processing being done on the server. Is this something possible on WSO2 platform?
Thanks
You can setup database you want ( see the documentation ). For production usage I woudn't even recomment using the bundled H2 database. WSO2 analytics supports number of databases by default, I believe Oracle is one of them.
As stated in the comments - you can create a client or service which reads the data from the database and displays them its own way.
most challenging part for me is that how the client uses the information from the database?
This is already on your own (outside scope of this question). You've asked if your client can access the analytics (result) data - yes you can. How to do that is up to you. (depending what the client is, ..)
For example at our client they are building data APIs which are directly consumable by different frontend libraries creating nicer charts and reports.
I am doing a POC for a tool called informatica functionality if that can be used to read the data from a webservice which publish data. It will be like there is a external data provided which is ready to publish data over webservice and I have to use the adapter of this toll to read that data and create a flat flile out of it. There will be no input provided from our side(other than autentication.). Are there any such web services available which can be sued for that /
You can look an UDDI of some available web services you can use, and also few companies has web services for test purpose like Publicly Available Web Services
In my experience, reading webservice data is fragile using Informatica and it depends on the type of Webservice how well it works.
Testing works best, if you have at least some wsdl file, that you can feed into SoapUI. With the pro-Version you can even use that wsdl File to provide a dummy Webservice which you can then read data using Informatica.
Here are some webservices you can try: http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/ws_use.asp
Can someone please point me to the direction where there is a example on how to connect and retrieve data from Microsoft Dynamic online 2011 with only the web services, such as Discovery and Organization, and not using any of the SDK that Microsoft provided. It would also be nice if I dont need to add System.ServiceModel.
I looked at the Soap example it still used Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Samples.
The reason i am avoiding any SDK or namespace is I am trying to build a SQL CLR that can connect to CRM online and retrieve the data i needed for the reports. The reports are based on my local database and CRM data.
Thank you for all the help
Most data can be fetched (and relationships are well represented) via the oData/REST web services. You don't need any particular SDKs or custom code, just anything that can read data in XML or JSON format from a URI.
[Your Organization Root URL]/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc is where you'll find the fun stuff. Documentation is on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334767.aspx
Forgive my ignorance, but do people build websites with Microsoft Dynamics CRM?
I have a potential client who says that is the technology they will use for a new web project, for which I would be doing the HTML templating. I want to learn all I can as I am new to this particular system, but I can't seem to find anything related to web building and CRM. Is it more likely the client is using another piece of technology that they are neglecting to tell us about?
Any experience or insight about this process is greatly appreciated!
You can't build website using MSCRM, but you can build ASP.Net website using CRM content easily. The API provided by MSCRM is a set of web services, that can be queried in a website to populate pages content.
Also, you can directly query the Database if you want ReadOnly content, and only for read-only content, because it is not supported to update/create data using SQL connections.
Note that it's required to have the external connector license to use any data in the CRM, thru the API and even thru direct SQL queries.
I have built a website using .NET, utilising the CRM4 API and database. All the website did was to submit queries to CRM using the CRM web services and metadata web services, and get data back. This company was already using CRM for their back end, so it's much easier for the front end to use the same database as well since it's a simple one.
The alternative would be to create an intermediate connector between the 2 systems -- backend and front end, which is not as efficient (for our case anyway).