FAQ

Yes. You can query OTBI reports and BI Publisher data models directly—no need to rebuild logic from scratch.

BI Connector connects to a wide range of modules—ERP, SCM, HCM, and more.

BI Connector eliminates brittle extracts and complex ODI or ETL workflows. It doesn’t use BICC or file-based extracts. Instead, it connects directly to Oracle Fusion via APIs to query the data and bring it into Azure or Power BI. It’s faster to deploy, easier to maintain, and doesn’t require custom ETL.

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BI Connector offers performance, cost savings, and time savings advantage over the ODBC driver which practically doesn’t work. To learn more, please refer to this article in Tableau website.

BI Connector is a purpose-built connector that offers both live and extract capability in addition to being battle-tested in several large customer deployments. Web data connectors such as Unify or EzDataMunch just extract data from OBIEE and are not proven to handle OBIEE complex queries/reports. Please refer to this article on the five areas where BI Connector is different from other connectors.

BI Connector supports custom integration with SSO modules such as Oracle Access Manager, Windows Native Authentication, SAML etc. BI Connector’s SSO integration will enable users to log in to OBIEE using their SSO credentials. Because of the limitations of Tableau Server, BI Connector does not support automatic login. Users should log in to OBIEE data sources using their SSO credentials after logging into Tableau server.

Since each SSO deployment is unique, SSO integration for BI Connector is offered as a Professional Services effort based on Statement of Work (SOW) at an additional cost. Please contact us to learn more.

BI Connector Server Edition is installed on the same machine in which the Power BI On-premise Gateway or Report Server is installed.

Yes. Connectivity to OBIEE reports is generally available. Connectivity to Subject Areas is in beta testing. Please contact us if you are interested in evaluating BI Connector.