Power BI and OData

Power BI is an set of software tools and services for business analytics, developed by Microsoft.

The topics in the section look at connecting the authoring tool, Power BI Desktop, to PlanningSpace data sources, using the OData API (integration services).

The most common way of working with data in Power BI is that data will be imported from the external data source (i.e., the OData API) and stored (also known as cached) within Power BI. The cached data will be used when reports and dashboards are viewed by users of a Power BI-based service.

Power BI services require additional set-up and configuration to perform 'data refresh' by accessing the external data sources. Data refresh is not covered in this documentation.

 

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