david_kero
9 years agoNew Member
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Scripting Capability in PowerBI to Access REST Web Services
We have a few clients that have asked for a BI solution using Power BI. For security reasons we would need to host the reporting data in another environment because there is no direct access to the ...
nishalit
9 years agoNew Member
Thanks for the feedback - You can already interact with REST services by using Power BI Desktop and the Web connector. Simply provide the URL REST API call. Power BI Desktop will retrieve and parse the output (i.e. JSON), allowing you to then work with the data just like with any other data source.
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