MYOB AccountRight Reporting and Star Schemas in OBIEE

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

Connect to MYOB AccountRight 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.

These properties are required when connecting to a company file (both for Cloud and On-Premise instances).

• CompanyFileId: You can find this by starting MYOB, opening your data file, and selecting Help -> About MYOB
• User: The username associated with your company file.
• Password: The password associated with your company file.

Connecting to a Cloud Instance

To connect to a cloud instance of MYOB, you can use the embedded OAuth credentials or create an OAuth app with MYOB. This process is detailed in the Help documentation.

Connecting to an On-Premise instance:

When connecting to an on-premise instance, set the following connection property in addition to those above:

• InitiateOauth: Set this to OFF.
• Url: The Url of your MYOB instance.

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 MYOB AccountRight Metadata

Follow the steps below to use the OBIEE Client Tools to import MYOB AccountRight metadata into an OBIEE repository. You can then integrate MYOB AccountRight 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 MYOB AccountRight tables. 👁 Tables to be imported into the repository. (Salesforce is shown.)
   

You can now create star schemas based on MYOB AccountRight tables: 👁 Fact and dimension tables. (Salesforce is shown.)