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bebeto
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9 years ago

Get Data from Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Hi,   I have a customer with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, can I connect Power BI with it to develop a Dashboard and some reports?   I can see two connectors in Power BI to: Salesforce Objects Sa...
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v-haibl-msft
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9 years ago

bebeto

 

I found a useful blog which may help you understand the difference between Salesforce Objects and Reports.

 

  1. Salesforce Object (Both Standard & Custom) – In Salesforce, objects are fields that are grouped together based on category or tab. Examples include products, opportunities, leads and each of these objects contains a number of related fields that can be brought into a data model for reporting within Power BI Desktop. For a thorough explanation of Salesforce objects, you can read up on it HERE.
  2. Salesforce Reports – Within Salesforce, users can create various reports which can be connected to directly through Power BI Desktop. The benefit of connecting to a pre-built Salesforce report is that it should already contain the fields needed for your analysis which would eliminate the need for some data manipulation and mapping when modeling data.

 

Best Regards,

Herbert