Miro Reporting and Star Schemas in OBIEE

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Create a star schema that shows perspectives on Miro facts in real time.

The CData ODBC Driver for Miro is a standard database driver that can integrate real-time access to Miro data into your data warehouse or directly into your reporting tool. This article shows how to bypass the data warehouse and import operational Miro data into Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).

See the knowledge base for ODBC integrations with ETL tools like Informatica PowerCenter. For an ETL solution into Oracle Warehouse Builder, use the driver with the Oracle ODBC Gateway to Access Miro Data as a Remote Oracle Database.

Connect to Miro as an ODBC Data Source

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

Using API Key Authentication

Miro uses API Key authentication with an access token. To generate an access token:

  1. Log in to your Miro account
  2. Navigate to Settings > Your apps
  3. Click "Create new app" or select an existing app
  4. Configure the required permissions (e.g., boards:read, teams:read)
  5. Install the app and generate an access token
  6. Copy the generated access token (it will only be shown once)

After obtaining your access token, set the following connection properties:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
  • APIKey: Set this to your access token.

Connecting to Miro

Once the authentication is configured, you can connect to Miro and query data from any of the available tables such as Boards, Items, Teams, Organizations, and more.

When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing reports and visualizations.

Import Miro Metadata

Follow the steps below to use the OBIEE Client Tools to import Miro metadata into an OBIEE repository. You can then integrate Miro data into your business models.

  1. Open the Administration Tool and click File -> New Repository.

  2. In the Connection Type menu, select ODBC 3.5 and select the CData DSN.
  3. Select the metadata types you want to import under the Relational Sources option and then select Miro tables.
You can now create star schemas based on Miro tables:

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