SAP B1 Power BI integration
SAP B1 Power BI integration
Deploy in hours
refresh in minutes
Zap connects SAP B1 data to Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Excel. Deep integration for seamless refreshes and an Excel add-in ensure no exports, just live numbers – save time, eliminate errors, and trust your numbers.
Under the hood, Zap automates your data warehouse. Deploy in hours with a pre‑built SAP B1 model, and refresh in minutes with Zap’s 5×‑faster Delta processing.
decisions made simple
Deploy in hours
refresh in minutes
Zap connects SAP B1 data to Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Excel. Deep integration for seamless refreshes and an Excel add-in ensure no exports, just live numbers – save time, eliminate errors, and trust your numbers.
Under the hood, Zap automates your data warehouse. Deploy in hours with a pre‑built SAP B1 model, and refresh in minutes with Zap’s 5×‑faster Delta processing.
Powering global businesses with automated ERP data warehouses for over 15 years
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Powering global businesses with automated ERP data warehouses for over 15 years
The heart of a BI platform is the data warehouse.
Microsoft
The heart of a BI platform is the data warehouse.
Microsoft
Power BI's missing pieces
Star schema required
Star schema required
Microsoft recommends a star schema for reliable, enterprise grade Power BI. This accelerates queries and simplifies reporting.
Microsoft recommends a star schema for reliable, enterprise grade Power BI. This accelerates queries and simplifies reporting.
ERP conversion hazards
ERP conversion hazards
Transforming raw ERP data without the proper architecture creates duplicate risks and performance bottlenecks.
Transforming raw ERP data without the proper architecture creates duplicate risks and performance bottlenecks.
Prohibitive resources
Prohibitive resources
Traditional data warehousing requires specialist skills and significant Fabric investment.
Traditional data warehousing requires specialist skills and significant Fabric investment.
Connecting
is easy
Connecting
is easy
If you're here looking for a simple way to connect SAP B1 to Power BI, we've got you covered. But trust us, connecting is the easy part.
Zap automates the hard bits:
Navigating the acronym soup of tables from OINV to OITM
Avoiding duplicate financial records as you model
Combining multiple company databases without hundreds of union steps
Managing a mess of UDF denormalization...
and a whole lot more. Typical Zap customers save months in modeling, and see their first dashboards day 1.
Zap provides
5x faster
with Zap’s proprietary Delta processing.
80%
reduction in implementation time.
1000's
of hours of embedded expertise.
Power BI foundations
done right
Trust deeper
Prevent duplicates — Power BI and OneLake don’t enforce primary keys. A Zap data warehouse protects your financial reports from silent errors.
Single source of truth — Power BI and Zap's Excel add-in share the same validated data model.
Historical integrity — Built in data retention enables point-in-time analysis and audit trails.
Go faster
Process faster — Zap's Delta processing updates more than 5x faster than full partition reloads.
Query faster — Star schema optimization delivers blistering query performance.
Refresh more often — Warehouse buffering protects SAP B1 from performance strain, enabling near real-time data updates.
Build smarter
Build safer — Pre-built models cut implementation time by over 80% and reduce project risk.
Model smarter — SAP B1-aware optimizations reduce customization and maintenance effort.
Fabric ready — Switch on Microsoft Fabric sync for notebooks and lake-scale data when you're ready, not before.
What we deliver
Automated XMLA synchronization
Push data models directly to Power BI Premium, Fabric, and Azure Analysis Services with zero manual steps.
Automated XMLA synchronization
Push data models directly to Power BI Premium, Fabric, and Azure Analysis Services with zero manual steps.
Pre-built ERP data models
Purpose-built models optimized specifically for Power BI with proven star schema design.
Pre-built ERP data models
Purpose-built models optimized specifically for Power BI with proven star schema design.
Intelligent data processing
Minimize refresh times and resource usage with smart detection of changed records.
Intelligent data processing
Minimize refresh times and resource usage with smart detection of changed records.
Cross-platform data unification
Seamlessly combine SAP B1 data with other business systems for complete visibility.
Cross-platform data unification
Seamlessly combine SAP B1 data with other business systems for complete visibility.
Enterprise versioning
In-application version tracking with history, rollback capabilities, and full audit trails for governance.
Enterprise versioning
In-application version tracking with history, rollback capabilities, and full audit trails for governance.
Explore the Zap platform
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FAQs
How does Zap prevent duplicate records and ensure data integrity?
Power BI and OneLake cannot enforce primary keys, allowing duplicate records to silently corrupt financial reports. Even Fabric SQL Warehouse requires 'NOT ENFORCED' in all constraints. Zap uses Azure SQL Database or Fabric SQL Database with enforced primary keys, catching duplicates before they reach your reports. ERP financial data integrity is our specialty, not just another data source we connect to.
How exactly does Zap make Power BI refreshes faster?
Zap transforms each incoming source change as two transactions in the data warehouse: one to reverse the original value and another to add the new value, similar to ledger adjustments. When synchronized to Power BI via XMLA, this enables add-only processing rather than full partition reloads. Since Power BI processes additions much faster than updates, the result is refreshes >5x faster even for complex ERP data.
Why not query SAP B1 tables directly in Power BI?
SAP B1 uses cryptic table names like OINV, OITM, OCRD - you'd spend weeks researching these relationships just to build a coherent schema, and the result would be a model lost in SAP’s technical language. Zap transforms SAP B1 data into business-friendly tables and handles heavy row-level processing in the data warehouse, so Power BI stays focused purely on analytic transforms and visualization.
How does Zap handle multiple company databases?
In Power BI you’d need to manually union each data pipeline across your company databases - tedious work that multiplies with every additional entity. With Zap you simply select companies via checkboxes and we automatically consolidate them upstream, delivering unified data ready for your Power BI transforms.
Will our UDFs flow through automatically?
In Power BI you’d need to include bespoke lookups for each user defined field (UDF), but with Zap you simply check the source columns to bring in. It doesn’t matter if it’s native or UDF - Zap performs the source modeling for you behind the scenes.