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⇱ ConvertAPI Reporting and Star Schemas in OBIEE

ConvertAPI Reporting and Star Schemas in OBIEE

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

The CData ODBC Driver for ConvertAPI is a standard database driver that can integrate real-time access to ConvertAPI data into your data warehouse or directly into your reporting tool. This article shows how to bypass the data warehouse and import operational ConvertAPI 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 ConvertAPI Data as a Remote Oracle Database.

Connect to ConvertAPI 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.

ConvertAPI uses API Secret Key authentication. Your ConvertAPI Secret is used to authenticate requests. You can find your API Secret in the ConvertAPI dashboard under your account settings.

Using APIKey Authentication

After setting the following connection properties, you are ready to connect:

  • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
  • APIKey: Set this to your ConvertAPI API secret key.

Example connection string:

Profile=C:\profiles\ConvertAPI.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings="APIKey=your_api_key";

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 ConvertAPI Metadata

Follow the steps below to use the OBIEE Client Tools to import ConvertAPI metadata into an OBIEE repository. You can then integrate ConvertAPI 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 ConvertAPI tables. 👁 Tables to be imported into the repository. (Salesforce is shown.)
You can now create star schemas based on ConvertAPI tables: 👁 Fact and dimension tables. (Salesforce is shown.)