ScottC on 11 Feb 2016 10:43:56
All of the current Ideas that mention SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe integration are marked as completed as this feature was offered pre June/July release. This is nearly a critical requirement for adoption in my organization.
I had previously heard that this was removed due to licencing restrictions, can we get an official response on that? Is there any possibility of this being re-integrated?
Administrator on 07 Dec 2020 22:45:41
Unfortunately, the Business Objects connector was removed due to a number of reasons.
- Comments (164)
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
Definity must have feature for our organization. Thumbs up for this!!!
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
Interesting. It would be great if you can provide more details about it.
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
I agree
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
I agree - this is much needed functionality.
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
This would be very useful. Currently we have to support multiple tools for Universe query and SSAS/Tablular model. PowerQuery has a Universe Connector, so the effort should be inconsequential to port it over
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
We have already multiple universes from our vendor. If PBI could connect to universes that would be great. Now I have to create multiple tabular models for this. The problem with that is I can't use any bridge table with a tabular model.
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
I am very disappointed to have stumbled across marketing pages by Microsoft showing readily available use of this function but upon digging am finding that the feature was turned off for licensing issues. It is unclear what the licensing issue is however such statements enforce an opinion that SAP and Microsoft are choosing to not work together leaving customers of both companies paying the price. In my own company great sums of money are paid to both companies to utilize their products and issues like this make me consider throwing out both companies due to their lack of customer focus.
From a user point of view, I want an easy simple way to connect with the power and capabilities of Power Pivot and Power Query to data repositories modeled in Business Objects. Not being able to do that prevents me from using the knowledge investment we have in modeling data using the business objects tooling forcing us to re-model in some other tool / framework, choose to not use Excel as an analytic tool OR choose to implement tedious data outputs from BO to Excel via CSV or other constructs.
Please build, implement, license, settle whatever disagreement between Microsoft and SAP so that customers can benefit from streamlined data access.
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
PBI exists in a heterogeneous world with other vendors' BI tools. We'd get more adoption/acceptance of PBI if it could reuse the extensive metadata and business logic found in our BO universes.
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
I don't feel this is a good use of a feature as businesses should decouple from BOBJ, you turn BOBJ into an extremely expensive data layer and nothing more, and you would have significant licensing issues when you could simply swap to Power BI models and an overall better product.
RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe
Following my previous message. I have been able to successfully connect to Webi reports using the restful API of business object.
The process is not that complex and might be a good solution for those needing to connect PBI and BO.
Here is the link to the forum posts: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Connect-to-Business-Object-Webi-report-through-RESTful-request/m-p/109407#M46002