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Quickbooks
You can use the ODBC features in Enterprise. Not perfect by a long shot but it is a connection to give you some raw data if you want to fight thru getting the views connected (not obvious how to do it but possible). I have found the QODBC connector fails so if you want to get into reporting between PowerBi and QuickBook enterprise your best option is a 3rd party product called QQube which extracts the QB data into a local sybase Database. The database model is optomized for reporting so really is PERFECT for using with PowerBi. It comes with PowerBi Templates (Desktop files) that cover nearly every area you would want to report on.
I am certified on the product so do let me know if you need help getting QQube or getting it working.
Ernest
Hi Ernest,
I am santosh Menon from Invent UAE. We are using enterprise version of quickbook and we have plan to integrate QB to this BI tool.
I downloaded trial version of QQube and try to hook up data from Qbooks to QQube to my trial version of Power BI.
But its not working, while it shows sync is sucess and complete, data from QQube to BI is unsuccessful. Please advise.
Should i migrate to QB online?
or Please suggest solutions for this.
I can be reached on 00971 56 7518398 or [email protected]
Cheers
Santosh Menon
Hi Santosh,
Congrats on your progress so far ! Based on your description I am left wondering if you have Power BI Desktop installed and have opened any of the Power BI Example pbix files that are provided as a part of QQUBE ? If you open any of those are you seeing your data?
In the video I talk about publishing from Power BI desktop to the Powerbi site. That is a critical step to using the gateway since the gateway has to know what data to sync. Can you confirm you have done that? If you would like help getting these products to work I have a link that will let you Book a meeting .
re: switching to QuickBooks online (QBO) - If you are using the Enterprise version of QuickBooks it's you would not be happy with QBO as it has only a subset of the functionality of QuickBooks Enterprise and is a VERY different interface.