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Connect Centric and Microsoft Power BI

Connecting Centric and Microsoft Power BI for a company running both could allow data from Centric to be made available for reporting and analysis in Power BI. This could support the creation of dashboards and reports based on operational or business data managed in Centric, potentially improving visibility and decision-making.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between Centric and Microsoft Power BI around the way you work — not as an off-the-shelf connector, but to fit your systems.

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Why connect Centric and Microsoft Power BI?

A company operating both Centric and Microsoft Power BI could benefit from connecting the two systems by enabling data to flow automatically between them. This connection could help ensure that business intelligence and analytics in Power BI always reflect the most up-to-date information available in Centric, supporting more timely and accurate decision-making. Without such a connection, staff might need to manually export data from Centric and import it into Power BI. This manual process can lead to duplicate data entry, errors, and inconsistencies between the systems. Over time, records in each system could drift apart, with Power BI reports being generated from outdated or incomplete data. This could result in decisions being made based on figures that no longer match the current state of the business. The types of data that could be exchanged between a business management system like Centric and a reporting platform like Power BI include operational metrics, financial figures, sales data, inventory levels, and other key performance indicators. The specifics of what data can be exchanged and how it is transferred depend on what each system exposes through its API and must be determined on a case-by-case basis.

How System2System builds an integration

Connectors

We connect to each system through the interface it offers — an API, a database, a file exchange or a webhook — and handle authentication, rate limits and retries.

Mapping

Fields rarely line up one to one. We map and transform the data so both systems receive it in the shape they expect.

Workflow

We define what triggers an exchange, in which direction data flows and which system takes precedence when the two disagree.

Monitoring

Every exchange is logged. Failures are flagged and can be replayed, so nothing disappears without anyone noticing.

What can actually be exchanged?

That depends on what Centric and Microsoft Power BI make available through their APIs, on the licences and modules in use, and on the version each system runs. Which records are synchronised, in which direction and how often, is something we determine together before any work starts.

We are happy to look at your specific situation and tell you what is feasible — including when the answer is that it is not.

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