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    SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

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    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. 

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:08

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    is is possible to add the connector back

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    Jonathan Stapley on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:47

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    Why was this connector dropped out of the current Power BI architectures... it used to be a feature?

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:43

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    this is definitely a priority requirement

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    Bonni Johnson on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:51

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    Definitely need a connector to SAP BO Universes

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:50

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    We should have an option to connect SAP BO with power BI

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    Greg Koepke on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:36

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    '++ Moving up importance!

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    jerome P on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:18

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    I think you have to contact SAP / BO for this first.
    they have to support MDX or DAX query languages first.
    so they have to implement an OLEDB for OLAP driver for example.
    because the BO system is proprietary and do not use any standard we can see in other products (like SAP HANA, Hyperion, SSAS....)

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    Doug Newton on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:17

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    '@Jerome, not quite true. (1) SAP BO has a web API that MS could talk to, and (2) MS already had a BO universe integration in the past, with Power Query or Power Pivot, I forget. It was removed in Office 2016.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:15

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    The only thing that is keeping us away from using Power BI is the connectivity with BO Universe. We are using BO as our reporting tool and really want to introduce Power BI as our dashboard tool.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:25

    RE: SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe

    Definitely needed this option, otherwise have to do all of the ETL again and maintain two versions, which is not a viable solution