Create Reports from Adobe Commerce Data in Looker Studio

Looker Studio, formerly known as Google Data Studio, empowers users to craft customized reports featuring data visualizations that can be shared with clients while reflecting your brand identity. When combined with CData Connect Cloud, you gain immediate cloud-to-cloud access to Adobe Commerce data to create visualizations, dashboards, and more. This article provides step-by-step instructions on establishing a virtual database for Adobe Commerce and generating reports from Adobe Commerce data within Looker Studio.

CData Connect Cloud offers a seamless cloud-to-cloud interface tailored for Adobe Commerce, making it straightforward to construct reports directly from live Adobe Commerce data within Looker Studio without the need for data replication. As you create visualizations, Looker Studio generates queries to retrieve data. With its inherent optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect Cloud efficiently channels all supported query operations, including filters, JOINs, and more, directly to Adobe Commerce. This leverages server-side processing to swiftly provide the requested Adobe Commerce data.

Configure Adobe Commerce Connectivity for Looker Studio

Connectivity to Adobe Commerce from Looker Studio is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Adobe Commerce data from Looker Studio, we start by creating and configuring a Adobe Commerce connection.

1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
2. Select "Adobe Commerce" from the Add Connection panel
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Adobe Commerce.

   Adobe Commerce uses the OAuth 1 authentication standard. To connect to the Adobe Commerce REST API, you will need to obtain values for the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties by registering an app with your Adobe Commerce system. See the "Getting Started" section in the help documentation for a guide to obtaining the OAuth values and connecting.

   You will also need to provide the URL to your Adobe Commerce system. The URL depends on whether you are using the Adobe Commerce REST API as a customer or administrator.

   • Customer: To use Adobe Commerce as a customer, make sure you have created a customer account in the Adobe Commerce homepage. To do so, click Account -> Register. You can then set the URL connection property to the endpoint of your Adobe Commerce system.

   • Administrator: To access Adobe Commerce as an administrator, set CustomAdminPath instead. This value can be obtained in the Advanced settings in the Admin menu, which can be accessed by selecting System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Admin -> Admin Base URL.

     If the Use Custom Admin Path setting on this page is set to YES, the value is inside the Custom Admin Path text box; otherwise, set the CustomAdminPath connection property to the default value, which is "admin".

4. Click Create & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Adobe Commerce Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Adobe Commerce data from Looker Studio.

Visualize Live Adobe Commerce Data from Looker Studio

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect Cloud from Looker Studio to create a new Adobe Commerce data source and build a simple visualization from the data.

1. Log into Looker Studio, click data sources, create a new data source, and choose CData Connect Cloud Connector.
2. Click Authorize and allow access to your Google account.
3. Click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect Cloud instance
4. In the CData Connect Cloud Connector in Looker Studio select a Connection (e.g. Adobe Commerce1) and click Next
5. Select a Table (e.g. Products) or use a Custom Query and click Connect to continue
6. If needed, modify columns, click Create Report, and add the data source to the report.
7. Select a visualization style and add it to the report.
8. Select Dimensions and Measures to customize your visualization.

Live Access to Adobe Commerce Data from Cloud Applications

Now you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Adobe Commerce data from your Looker Studio workbook. You can create more data sources and new visualizations, build reports, and more — all without replicating Adobe Commerce data.

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