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We connect Power BI to SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and BW with the right extractor strategy, build a governed semantic model your finance team trusts, and replace the nightly Excel ritual with reports the CFO can open from a phone.
Submit your brief → SAP source review within 48 hours → scoped proposal in 5 days → first integrated report within 3 weeks of sign-off.
Finance exports tables out of SAP every Monday morning, pivots them in Excel, emails a PDF, and waits a week for the next refresh. Decisions get made on data that is already four days old.
A real Power BI semantic model fed by SAP. Click any module to swap the report context. We auto-cycle every 4 seconds; click to pause.
Every engagement ships these six artefacts. You sign off each one. Your IT team owns the source, your finance team owns the report, and we own the model and the pipeline in between.
We choose between OData, CDS views, BW MDX, HANA direct, or table-level extraction per data domain. You get a documented decision per SAP module, signed off by IT.
On-premise data gateway, service-account scoping, and Azure Data Factory or Fabric pipelines for heavier transformations. No analyst laptops in the loop.
A star-schema Power BI model your finance team actually trusts. SAP company codes, controlling areas, and chart-of-accounts modelled once, used everywhere.
CFO-grade financial reports, controlling variance views, supply-chain operations dashboards, and HR analytics, themed to your brand and reconciled to the SAP close.
SAP authorization objects translated into Power BI Row-Level Security. Sales leaders see their region. Plant managers see their plant. The CFO sees everything.
A documented runbook, video walkthroughs, and a four-week shadow period. Your team can extend the model without us. We stay on retainer only if you want us.
Write a single SAP RFC or ABAP extractor
Open SAP S/4HANA support tickets for connector fixes
Rebuild the dataset every time SAP releases a service pack
Train your analyst on SAP table semantics
Maintain a side database to flatten SAP joins
Email weekly PDF reports to the board
A growing textile processor operating across multiple plants ran finance and operations on a legacy ERP with Excel as the reporting layer. They engaged Redefine to integrate Power BI with the upgraded ERP and replace the manual close.
The ERP environment was fragmented and slow. Finance relied on manual Excel exports to produce monthly profit and loss, inventory movement, and cost variance reports. Numbers shifted between versions, the close took eleven days, and the board never saw a single source of truth.
Redefine connected Power BI to the upgraded ERP through a governed semantic model, built financial and operational reports reconciled to the chart-of-accounts, and trained the finance team to extend the model without us.
Source: Redefine engagement record. Sector and metric specifics summarised from a live project, not invented.
SAP integration is rarely the cheapest line item on a Power BI roadmap. It is also the line item that, when done right, eliminates the most ongoing analyst cost. We scope it like a CFO would: every artefact priced separately, every refresh frequency justified, every gateway counted.
Single SAP module (Financial Accounting or Controlling), one semantic model, three reports, gateway setup, Row-Level Security, four-week shadow.
Multi-module (Financial Accounting, Controlling, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution), Data Factory pipeline, BW or HANA direct, executive and operations and plant report suites, multi-environment.
Scoped before work starts · line-by-line pricing · no commitment to receive a proposal. We share a fixed-fee statement of work within five business days of your brief.
Most business intelligence shops can connect Power BI to a SAP source. Few understand SAP's controlling area, fiscal variants, profit centre hierarchies, or why FBL3N totals differ from BSEG aggregates. We have a team that has lived inside SAP modules, not just queried them.
Other implementation partners drop a list of supported SAP connectors and call it expertise. We walk you through a decision matrix per data domain: OData, CDS view, BW MDX, HANA ODBC, or table extract. You leave the workshop knowing exactly which method we use and why.
The typical partner billing model keeps the model opaque so you keep paying. We hand over the PBIX file, the DAX style guide, the Data Factory pipeline definitions, and the gateway runbook. If your team can run it without us, brilliant. If you keep us on retainer, it is because we earned it.
All source systems we connect Power BI to. Start here if SAP is not your only data source.
For organisations migrating from SAP to Dynamics 365, or running both in parallel.
When a mid-market business unit runs Business Central alongside the SAP corporate core.
Retiring SAP BO and consolidating on Power BI? This is the migration playbook.
The umbrella delivery method for the broader Power BI rollout once the SAP layer is in.
Deep-dive on the modelling layer that sits between SAP extracts and your reports.
Ongoing service-level agreement support for the SAP-connected dataset, gateway, and refresh pipeline.
The complete Redefine Power BI service catalogue, organised by buyer journey stage.
For the first connector workshop, yes. Your Basis admin signs off on the service account, OData scope, and gateway access. After that, we operate inside the granted permissions. We never ask for system administrator or SAP ALL access.
No. We extract on a schedule, never live against production tables. Heavy loads route through Azure Data Factory into a staging layer, with delta extraction wherever the source supports it. Your SAP team approves the refresh window per domain.
It changes the connector mix, not the deliverable. For ECC we rely more on table extracts, BW MDX, and RFC-based discovery. For S/4HANA we lean on native OData and CDS views. The semantic model and reports look identical to the end user.
For a single SAP module engagement, the first production report typically lands in week three from sign-off. Multi-module enterprise builds reach a phase-one production cut in six to eight weeks, with additional modules layered on top.
A documented impact assessment runs as part of every SAP upgrade. We use a non-production replica to validate extracts and DAX against the new release before cutting over. Service-level agreement support customers get this as part of their retainer.
Yes. Several recent engagements land SAP data into a Fabric lakehouse via Data Factory pipelines, then expose certified semantic models for both Power BI reports and downstream AI workloads. We will recommend Fabric only when the scope justifies it.
You do, contractually. PBIX files, DAX scripts, Data Factory ARM templates, gateway runbook, and architecture diagrams sit in your repository under your tenant. If we part ways, your team continues without us.
If three or more of these describe you today, a SAP integration engagement will pay for itself within the first refresh cycle. If fewer than three, you may need an audit first. We will tell you.
Not sure? Tell us your situation and we will be straight with you. If a Power BI audit is the better first step, we will say so.
Tell us your SAP version, the modules in scope, and what your team is doing manually that the integration should handle. We will review and come back with a scoped proposal within five business days.
No commitment. No pitch. If SAP integration is not the right next step, we will say so and recommend what is.
Call within 48 hours · scoped proposal in 5 days · first integrated report within 3 weeks of sign-off
We will review your SAP situation and reply within 48 hours with a discovery call invite. A scoped proposal follows within five business days.