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Advanced reporting: REST-API & IQY Connector Integration in Excel - AT InternetTRANSCRIPT
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ADVANCED REPORTINGREST-API & IQY Connector Integration in
Excel
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Why Excel Dashboards ?
Different Report possibilities
REST-API
IQY Connector
Example in Excel
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WHY EXCEL DASHBOARDS
Excel is a ‘Standard’ in (a lot of) companies
For user who are not confident with the WA Tool
To share data for different stakeholders
To intergrate external data
To format data in different ways
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DIFFERENT REPORT POSSIBILITIES Simple Excel Reports
o Single Analysis
o Few Information
Advanced Excel Reports
o Multiple Analysis
o Control with Links/Drop-Downs/…
KPI’s Dashboards
o Segmented Data
o Aggregated Informations
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REST-API
REST: Representational State Transfer
REST-style architectures conventionally consist of clients and
servers.
Clients initiate requests to servers; servers process requests and
return appropriate responses.
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IQY CONNECTOR
IQY files are web query files, and they contain specific settings
needed by Excel to retrieve data from a specific web service
A Web query file is a text file.
Web query files can be created in any text editor, such as
Notepad, and they are saved with the .iqy extension.
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IQY CONNECTOR
The main advantage is that Web Queries are DYNAMIC!
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IQY CONNECTOR
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EXAMPLE – DYNAMIC DASHBOARD
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