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APOS Live Data Gateway extension for Microsoft Power BI provides fast, efficient and transparent data access through DirectQuery connections to SAP Datasphere. A DirectQuery connection is critical to handle medium to large datasets and cloud sources where importing data is prohibitive because of size. Only the information required, is retrieved.
Microsoft Power BI does not support a DirectQuery connection to SAP Datasphere. This is crucial to handling medium to large datasets that are stored in Datasphere.
Power BI DirectQuery support to SAP Datasphere
Enable Power BI reports and visualizations to display current, live SAP Datasphere data with Power BI DirectQuery with no need to import data into Power BI.
Immediate access to data
Access SAP Datasphere data immediately with no waiting for downloads or time delays associated with downloading data.
Data is always current
There is no latency of the data being analyzed, and the data is always current. No need to refresh data, which is critical with large volume data, or fast changing data.
Handle Big Data
Regardless of the size of the database being analyzed, only the data that is relevant to your needs is retrieved. Targeted queries/query results are being utilized during analysis.
Mitigate security issues
Remove the security concerns of having large blocks of data imported and stored on local machines. Instead of needing to download full datasets, access only small data portions required for visualizations locally.
See how APOS Live Data Gateway for SAP Datasphere enables DirectQuery live connectivity from Power BI to SAP Datasphere
DirectQuery provides live data connectivity to data assets, which allows Power BI reports and visualizations to display current, live data. Using Power BI to access large data sets without DirectQuery is impractical, because you cannot restrict results in such a way to avoid large and slow data downloads. DirectQuery ensures you retrieve only the data that is relevant to your needs.
DirectQuery is intended as a means of connecting live to large data assets and using that data without downloading large data sets. While many of your data assets may support DirectQuery from Power BI, there may also be other critical data assets that don't. For example, DirectQuery supports large Cloud-based data assets such as Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, IBM Netezza, SAP HANA and Snowflake, but not SAP Datasphere. If you connect Power BI to Datasphere directly using OData or ODBC, DirectQuery is not available. See a complete list of data sources supported by Power BI DirectQuery
Enable power users to access ad hoc data preparation in order to contribute data models that can be used by other users. The interactive, easy to use interface allows for rapid creation of data models
Allow administrators to define which data is available to Microsoft Power BI users translating the structures available in SAP Datasphere, so it's easily consumed by Power BI
There are a number of specialized APOS Live Data Gateway editions, designed to meet specific needs:
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APOS Live Data Gateway Power BI extension connects Power BI to APOS Live Data Gateway, which connects to a wide and diverse range of data assets via ODBC, OData and JDBC, including SAP Datasphere, and enables use of DirectQuery. Access to data is fast and efficient.
APOS Live Data Gateway enables live connectivity between Power BI and a wide variety of data assets using DirectQuery, making DirectQuery available for all of the 150+ relational, OLAP, Hadoop and Cloud sources it supports. See a complete list of data sources supported by APOS Live Data Gateway
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