Power BI Desktop – currently known in preview as the Power BI Designer – is a new visual data exploration and interactive reporting tool available for free direct from the vendor. It provides a free-form canvas for drag-and-drop exploration of your data and a library of interactive visualizations, while hoping to streamline report creation and publishing to the Power BI service.
Microsoft is opening its commercial grade visualization framework and visuals built on D3.js, enabling customers and partners to extend and build custom visuals. Along with the visualization framework they are also delivering a test suite and tooling. All of this is available today as an open source project on GitHub.
The two are similar, it is cars but of different brands; I ask 1-) the users use Windows 2-) you have Office 365 3-) They will use Excel for the data. If you answer yes to the 3, better BI due to integration, and learning is easier for the user. If they are non-Microsoft databases, investigate on the provider's side, for example, SAP, IBM, etc. I have trained end users in Power BI. I know that Power BI has the majority of connectors. I hope my comment is helpful. Regards
Hi Ross,Good news! The BI Connector, a Power BI-certified connector is created exactly for this purpose!With BI Connector, it's possible to extract your Oracle Fusion data directly to Power BI. Please check it out below:https://www.biconnector.com/po...The connector works seamlessly with both Power BI Desktop and Service (or Report Server) and supports Import and Direct Query modes. It also ret...
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Hi Ross,
Easy is a tricky description...We are going through this effort too. We are 'grappling' with the governance of this type of access as well as the technical journey. So you are not alone.
Fusion Middleware applications include a number of connectivity options including native client or Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC), with OLEDB, JDBC, etc., on top. Each has its own quirks. This is the 'plumbing' between the analytic tool and source.
Adding to that is the cloud and database level security of the data source.
A good way to start is to use Oracle's SQL Developer to connect to your data source. It gives developers a great query tool for Oracle and other databases. (https://www.oracle.com/databas...)
Once you understand what you can access, you can easily migrate that connectivity to Power BI.
Moreover, you will have validated queries that you can test directly or simply bring in the tables using the PBI Navigator.
Hi Ross,Good news! The BI Connector, a Power BI-certified connector is created exactly for this purpose!With BI Connector, it's possible to extract your Oracle Fusion data directly to Power BI. Please check it out below:https://www.biconnector.com/po...The connector works seamlessly with both Power BI Desktop and Service (or Report Server) and supports Import and Direct Query modes. It also retains the underlying table joins in the Oracle Fusion Cloud, so you don't have to recreate them from scratch in Power BI.Thanks,Dinesh
