How to connect PowerBI to the WebFOCUS Reporting Server

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Product: Reporting Server

Release: 8207

Primary OS: Linux

Solution Date: 2020-09-25

Problem

How to connect PowerBI to the WebFOCUS Reporting Server.

Solution

A separately licensed feature is available that allows any ODBC-enabled tool to connect to the WebFOCUS Reporting Server. The feature is called Open Visualizations. This is very useful for non ibi BI Platforms to be able to expose all of the data available through a WebFOCUS Reporting Server.

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