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tomdosfre
Advocate I
10 years ago

Connecting BIRST into Power BI

All, Thanks for your contributions, I'm learning a lot with these groups.   I'm looking at bringing in data from BIRST into Power BI and wanted to understand options. BIRST allows for ODBC but it ...
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  • tomdosfre's avatar
    tomdosfre
    Advocate I
    10 years ago

    Hi, thanks for your reply! Tried but not working so far. I was hoping we would get a direct connector just as we have for many other data sources (Salesforce, Facebook, etc.).

     

    I'll keep trying that but no luck yet. Any other ideas? 

     

    thank you

    • PowerBIGuy's avatar
      PowerBIGuy
      Responsive Resident
      10 years ago

      I don't know what type of development problems are going on with the ODBC but the only other thing i can think of is nightly SSIS jobs into a data warehouse using SSIS via ODBC or Rest. Using SSIS to account for any connection issues and ensure completeness of data. without ever having ETL'd data from birst before this is my best guess at a solution. Connect to Power BI via your data warehouse i'm thinking a more powerful ETL tool may help elevate the connection issues but i could be wrong.