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⇱ Build Charts with Sage Intacct Data in Clear Analytics

Build Charts with Sage Intacct Data in Clear Analytics

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Create dynamic charts and perform analytics based on Sage Intacct data in Clear Analytics.

The CData ODBC driver for Sage Intacct enables access to live data from Sage Intacct under the ODBC standard, allowing you work with Sage Intacct data in a wide variety of BI, reporting, and ETL tools and directly, using familiar SQL queries. This article shows how to use Clear Analytics, a Microsoft Excel Add-In, to connect to Sage Intacct as an ODBC source and create queries, tables, and charts (including PivotTables) based on Sage Intacct data.

About Sage Intacct Data Integration

CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Sage Intact. Customers use CData connectivity to:

  • Access Sage Intacct without worrying about API updates or changes.
  • Access custom objects and fields in Sage Intacct with no extra configuration steps involved.
  • Write data back to Sage Intacct using embedded Web Services credentials with Basic authentication.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional operations like approving or declining vendors, inserting engagements, and creating or deleting custom objects or fields.

Users frequently integrate Sage Intact with analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and Excel, and leverage our tools to replicate Workday data to databases or data warehouses.

To learn about how other customers are using CData's Sage Intacct solutions, check out our blog: Drivers in Focus: Accounting Connectivity.


Getting Started


Connect to Sage Intacct Data


Configure the ODBC Data Source Name

If you have not already done so, provide values for the required connection properties in the data source name (DSN). You can use the built-in Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to configure the DSN. This is also the last step of the driver installation. See the "Getting Started" chapter in the help documentation for a guide to using the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure a DSN.

To connect using the Login method, the following connection properties are required: User, Password, CompanyId, SenderId and SenderPassword.

User, Password, and CompanyId are the credentials for the account you wish to connect to.

SenderId and SenderPassword are the Web Services credentials assigned to you by Sage Intacct.

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.

Configure the Data Source in Clear Analytics

  1. Open Excel and navigate to the CLEAR ANALYTICS ribbon. Once there, open the Data Manager.
  2. Select Database as the data source.
  3. In the Set Connection section, click the option to create a new database.
  4. Select Microsoft ODBC Data Source as the data source and click OK.
  5. Select the DSN you already configured from the drop-down menu. 👁 Selecting the DSN.
  6. Back on the Set Connection section, select Standard (ANSI ODBC) Query Builder as the SQL Builder Provider and click Next.
  7. Select the Schema/Owner and choose the domains (tables) that you wish to use in Clear Analytics. 👁 Selecting data tables (called Domains in Clear Analytics).
  8. Prepare your data objects as needed by customizing the display names and descriptions of the tables and columns.
  9. For the vast majority of the CData ODBC Drivers, you will not set a key date for your domains.
  10. In the Domain Relations section, add any relational information between tables.
  11. In the Domain Tree section, create groups for your data and add the available items to the groups. 👁 Adding Domains (tables) to Groups in the Domain Tree.
  12. Review the summary of your data and click Finish.

Create a Chart with Sage Intacct Data

You are now ready to create a chart with Sage Intacct data.

Create a New Query

  1. Click Repository in the CLEAR ANALYTICS ribbon.
  2. Create a new query.
  3. Select the columns you wish to retrieve.
  4. Set the aggregation type for your data (use the blank entry if you do not wish to aggregate the data).
  5. Set filters and formulas by dragging columns to the lower window.
  6. Name your query and click Save. 👁 Creating a New Query.

Build a Chart Based on a Query Report

With the query created, you are now ready to execute a report and display a chart.
  1. Click Report Explorer in the CLEAR ANALYTICS ribbon.
  2. In the Report Explorer pane, click the 'New Report' icon in the toolbar.
  3. Select the query you just created.
  4. Name the report and click 'Save and Execute'. 👁 Creating and Executing a Report.
  5. Click the Results tab within the Report Explorer
  6. Expand your report and drag the chart to the Excel spreadsheet.
  7. In the resulting PivotChart window, drag the fields (columns) to the Filters, Legends, Axis (Categories), and Values windows. 👁 Building a PivotChart.

With a new data source in Clear Analytics established and a chart created, you are ready to begin analysis of Sage Intacct data. With the ODBC Driver for Sage Intacct and Clear Analytics, you can perform self-service analytics in Excel with live data, directly from Sage Intacct.

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Sage Intacct ODBC Driver

The Sage Intacct ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Sage Intacct, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Sage Intacct data like you would a database - read, write, and update Sage Intacct Contacts, Invoices, Transactions, Vendors, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.