Analyze SAP Business Warehouse Data in Infragistics Reveal

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use CData Connect AI to create on OData API on top of SAP Business Warehouse data and visualize live SAP Business Warehouse data in Infragistics Reveal.

Reveal, an offering from Infragistics, serves as a data visualization tool that seamlessly integrates with CData Connect AI. Together, they empower users to deliver dynamic dashboards using real-time data from a diverse range of data sources, including SAP Business Warehouse data. In this article, we will guide you through the process of connecting to SAP Business Warehouse via Connect AI and subsequently linking Connect AI with Infragistics Reveal to construct a straightforward dashboard.

Connect to SAP Business Warehouse from Infragistics Reveal

To work with live SAP Business Warehouse data in Infragistics Reveal, we need to connect to SAP Business Warehouse from Connect AI, provide user access to the connection, and create a Workspace for the SAP Business Warehouse data.

Connect to SAP Business Warehouse from Connect AI

CData Connect AI uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources.

  1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
    2. Adding a Connection
  2. Select "SAP Business Warehouse" from the Add Connection panel
    3. Selecting a data source
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to SAP Business Warehouse.

    To connect to SAP Business Warehouse, set the URL property to a valid SAP Business Warehouse server base URL. The driver must connect to SAP Business Warehouse instances hosted over HTTP with XMLA access.

    The driver supports the following authentication schemes via the AuthScheme property:

    • None: Anonymous authentication, if available on the server.
    • Basic: Set User and Password and set AuthScheme to Basic.
    • Kerberos: See the Using Kerberos section of the help documentation for the required Kerberos properties.

    By default, the driver attempts to negotiate SSL/TLS by checking the server's certificate against the system's trusted certificate store. To specify another certificate, see the SSLServerCert property for the available formats.

    Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
  4. Click Save & Test
  5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add SAP Business Warehouse Connection page and update the User-based permissions. Updating permissions

Add a Personal Access Token

When connecting to Connect AI through the REST API, the OData API, or the Virtual SQL Server, a Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each service to maintain granularity of access.

  1. Click on the Gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open the settings page.
  2. On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
  3. Give the PAT a name and click Create. Creating a new PAT
  4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

Configure SAP Business Warehouse Endpoints for Infragistics Reveal

After connecting to SAP Business Warehouse, create a workspace for your desired table(s).

  1. Navigate to the Workspaces page and click Add to create a new Workspace (or select an existing workspace). The Workspaces page. Adding a new Workspace.
  2. Click Add to add new assets to the Workspace.
  3. Select the SAP Business Warehouse connection (e.g. SAPBusinessWarehouse1) and click Next. Selecting an Asset (Salesforce is shown).
  4. Select the table(s) you wish to work with and click Confirm. Selecting Tables (Salesforce is shown).
  5. Make note of the OData Service URL for your workspace, e.g. https://cloud.cdata.com/api/odata/{workspace_name}

With the connection, PAT, and Workspace configured, you are ready to connect to SAP Business Warehouse data from Infragistics Reveal.

Create a Dashboard in Reveal

With Connect AI configured, we can visualize SAP Business Warehouse data in Reveal.

  1. Log into Reveal and click Dashboards -> New Adding a new dashboard
  2. Click Data Sources -> OData Feed Adding a new OData data source
  3. Specify the Connect AI OData API endpoint URL (found on the OData page): https://cloud.cdata.com/api/odata/{workspace_name} Configuring the OData URL
  4. Select Generic Credentials and
    • Set Username to a Connect AI username (e.g. [email protected])
    • Set Password to the PAT for the user
    Configuring the credentials
  5. Select the entity you wish to visualize Selecting an entity to visualize (Salesforce is shown.)
  6. Select fields and choose a chart type Visualizing data in Reveal (Salesforce is shown.)

More Information & Free Trial

At this point, you have created a simple dashboard from live SAP Business Warehouse data. For more information on creating OData feeds from SAP Business Warehouse (and more than 100 other sources), visit the Connect AI page. Sign up for a free trial and start working live SAP Business Warehouse data in tools that consume OData APIs.

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