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Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to Adobe Analytics data and integrate live Adobe Analytics data into your Power Automate tasks.
Microsoft Power Automate is an online service that automates events (known as workflows) across the most common apps and services. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, you get instant, cloud-to-cloud access to Adobe Analytics data for visualizations, dashboards, and more. This article shows how to connect to Connect Cloud from Power Automate and integrate live Adobe Analytics data into your workflows and tasks.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL, cloud-to-cloud interface for Adobe Analytics, allowing you to easily integrate with live Adobe Analytics data in Power Automate — without replicating the data. CData Connect Cloud looks exactly like a SQL Server database to Power Automate and uses optimized data processing out of the box to push all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Adobe Analytics, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Adobe Analytics data.
Configure Adobe Analytics Connectivity for Power Automate
Connectivity to Adobe Analytics from Power Automate is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Adobe Analytics data from Power Automate, we start by creating and configuring a Adobe Analytics connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "Adobe Analytics" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Adobe Analytics.
Adobe Analytics uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the "Getting Started" section of the help documentation for a guide.
Retrieving GlobalCompanyId
GlobalCompanyId is a required connection property. If you do not know your Global Company ID, you can find it in the request URL for the users/me endpoint on the Swagger UI. After logging into the Swagger UI Url, expand the users endpoint and then click the GET users/me button. Click the Try it out and Execute buttons. Note your Global Company ID shown in the Request URL immediately preceding the users/me endpoint.
Retrieving Report Suite Id
Report Suite ID (RSID) is also a required connection property. In the Adobe Analytics UI, navigate to Admin -> Report Suites and you will get a list of your report suites along with their identifiers next to the name.
After setting the GlobalCompanyId, RSID and OAuth connection properties, you are ready to connect to Adobe Analytics.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Adobe Analytics Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Adobe Analytics data from Power Automate.
Connecting to CData Connect Cloud
To use Connect Cloud to integrate Adobe Analytics data into your Power Automate tasks, you need a new SQL Server connection:
- Log in to Power Automate
- Click Data -> Connections -> New connection
- Select SQL Server
- In the connection wizard:
- Choose to connect directly
- Set SQL server name to tds.cdata.com
- Set SQL database name to the name of the Adobe Analytics connection (e.g. AdobeAnalytics1)
- Set Username to a Connect Cloud user (e.g. [email protected])
- Set Password to the PAT for the above user
- Click Create
Integrating Adobe Analytics Data into Power Automate Tasks
With the connection to Connect Cloud configured, you are ready to integrate live Adobe Analytics data into your Power Automate tasks.
- Log in to Power Automate
- Click My flows -> New flow and choose to create the flow from blank or template
- Add (or configure) a SQL Server action (like Get rows) and configure the action to connect to your Connect Cloud connection
- Select a Table to work with (from the drop-down menu) and configure any advanced options (like filters, orders, etc)
- Configure any actions to follow and test, then save the flow
SQL Access to Adobe Analytics Data from Cloud Applications
Now you have a direct connection to live Adobe Analytics data from Power Automate tasks. You can create more connections and workflows to drive business — all without replicating Adobe Analytics data.
To get SQL data access to 100+ SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources directly from your cloud applications, sign up for a free trial of CData Connect Cloud.
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