Pre-requisites for Integrating eG Enterprise with Power BI Using eG REST API

To pull data from the eG database into Power BI using the eG REST API, the following pre-requisites should be fulfilled:

  • The latest Power BI should be installed and running in your environment;

  • The eG REST API consumer should have connectivity with eG manager from the REST client;

  • The API consumer requires a valid eG user account to access the API of the eG Manager;

  • Before passing the password of the eG user account to the API, make sure that it is valid and is in the 'Base-65 encoded' format.

Once the aforesaid pre-requisites are fulfilled, you can proceed to pull data from the eG database into Power BI.