How to connect Power BI to the Ultimo database
Add BI IP addresses to the whitelist
Add the Power BI IP address(es) to the whitelist of your Ultimo database if you want the reports to be published to app.powerbi.com. The official IP ranges of Power BI can be found here:
The official ranges are huge and therefor have a negative impact on the security. In daily practice we use a more pragmatic approach, because it is our experience that Microsoft only uses a handful of IP ranges for a particular environment. Based on this experience we have the following steps:
Configure the database refresh after uploading the report / semantic model (*).
Power BI will provide you an IP address that is not allowed to make a connection.
Find the corresponding IP address range in the link above.
Add the found IP range in the Ultimo Portal to your IP whitelist. See our 'create database user' page. Do not forget to press the button "Update Database User" to push your changes into the system.
Repeat this process from step two on until the connection is made.
After 2 to 5 ranges the whitelist is correctly extended.
Connect Power BI
Open Power BI Desktop and at the popup window select Get data
Select Database and SQL Server database.
Press Connect.
Fill in the server and database as provided in the Ultimo portal. Press Ok.
Select the Database tab. Fill in the provided user name and password.
Select at Select which level to apply these settings to the second option containing the server and database name. Press Connect.
The navigator is opened and you can start creating reports.
Ultimo database tips
If your organization has not much experience with the Ultimo data dictionary check the database views starting with applv_bi_fact. They contain all the data is a easy to read format.
In the Ultimo Configuration Tool (UCT) > Documentation > Entity overview, you can find all entities containing the database columns and foreign key links to other entities
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