Connect SAP and Microsoft Power BI

Connecting SAP and Microsoft Power BI for a business could enable the transfer of business data from SAP into Power BI for advanced analytics and reporting. This would involve establishing secure data extraction, transformation, and loading processes to ensure accurate and timely information is available for decision-making within Power BI dashboards and reports.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between SAP 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 SAP and Microsoft Power BI?

A company using both SAP and Microsoft Power BI could benefit from enabling these systems to exchange data, as this could support more informed decision-making and reduce manual work. Without a connection, staff may need to manually export data from SAP and import it into Power BI, which can be time-consuming and increases the risk of errors. Duplicate data entry could occur, and there is a possibility that records in Power BI could become outdated or inconsistent with those in SAP, leading to decisions based on incomplete or stale information. If a connection were established, it could enable the transfer of data such as financial figures, sales data, inventory levels, and operational metrics from SAP into Power BI for analysis and reporting. This could help ensure that reports and dashboards in Power BI reflect the most current data available in SAP. The specific data that can be exchanged, however, depends on what each system exposes through its API and must be determined for each individual situation.

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 SAP 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.