Has anyone got experience connecting to PowerBI th...
# integrations
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Has anyone got experience connecting to PowerBI through REST services?
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I haven't integrated one yet but PowerBI SuiteAnalytics Connect works good for me. Do you plan to integrate with REST services with the SuiteQL functionality
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Send an email to josh@tacticalconnect.com .... its a really cool product. Tell 'em Darren sent you!
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Thanks @darrenhillconsulting, @クリスピポテト Yes plan on integrating PowerBI with REST services using the SuiteQL functionality. I am able to pull some data into postman from a demo netsuite account using a POST request but having a bit of trouble with the PowerBI side of things.
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Power BI should be able to handle it anyways you just have to programattically genarate your authorization in Power BI
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Do you know if this is different to using the header parameters when you setup a web connection in PowerBI?
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You could save yourself a bunch of time but NOT using RESTlets. You'll run into timeouts and dataset result limits quickly. Not mention you'll need to use a deprecated way of authentication
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Thanks @darrenhillconsulting, I have used SuiteAnalytics Connect ODBC previously with multiple applications: Excel, QlikView, Tableua etc but always find the performance of it to be pretty slow which is why I've gone down the REST route.
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That is universally felt
I know the Tactical Connect's solution is different. They pre-fetch a Saved Search (on a scheduled basis) with no upper file limits.
Further, you can schedule that file to be exported a number of endpoints ... in your case it could export directly to SharePoint (which PowerBI plays nice with).
Anyway, it would be worth a 15mins chat with josh@tacticalconnect.com before heading down the RESTlet path
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Using the REST API instead of the RESTlets should be more flexible at least but you have to work on either having a OAuth 2.0 or OAuth 1.0 based header generation on your PowerBI
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@Josh_SatoriReporting ^^^
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Happy to help! Our solution Tactical Connect is an alternative to ODBC or trying to do something on your own. I'd be happy to set you up on a 30-day trial. You can see our demo video on our homepage: www.tacticalconnect.com or feel free to email me: josh@tacticalconnect.com
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