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InterSystems IRIS to Microsoft Power Bi integration — real-time data sync

Keep InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi

Give Microsoft Power Bi the users, events, and records that live in InterSystems IRIS in real time, and sync the cohorts and scores Microsoft Power Bi computes back into InterSystems IRIS where your applications read them.

Microsoft Power Bi is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into InterSystems IRIS, so InterSystems IRIS always reflects the current state of Microsoft Power Bi — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

A database holds the rows your business runs on: the users, events, orders, and records that every service reads and writes. Microsoft Power Bi is where people make sense of them, as dashboards, funnels, cohorts, and metrics. Moving the data from InterSystems IRIS into Microsoft Power Bi usually means a hand-built extract or a change-data-capture pipeline that breaks the moment a column is renamed, and reporting that always trails last night's load.

Common use cases

  • 01 Pull Dataflow and Datasource definitions to document lineage between Power BI and its upstream warehouses in a governance database.
  • 02 Load dataset Refresh History into an operational database to alert on-call teams when scheduled refreshes fail or run long.
  • 03 Write enriched or corrected records from SaaS apps back into IRIS tables for on-platform processing
  • 04 Replicate IRIS tables to Postgres so application teams can build against a familiar database

Common sync patterns

Where Microsoft Power Bi builds cohorts or scores: results your services can read

Segments, cohorts, or scores computed in Microsoft Power Bi sync back into InterSystems IRIS, where the services that read from the database act on them at query speed without calling the analytics API.

Analytics on live operational data, minus the pipeline

The users, events, orders, and records stored in InterSystems IRIS land in Microsoft Power Bi as they change, so dashboards, funnels, and metrics run on current data instead of last night's extract.

One version of each user or account

A user, account, or record corrected in either system updates the other, so the identity your reports group by matches the identity your database stores.

What you can sync between InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

InterSystems IRIS objects Microsoft Power Bi objects How this pairing syncs
Stored Procedures Server-side logic callable over SQL supports controlled writes and transformations. Datasets (Semantic Models) Tabular models behind reports; their rows are read with DAX via POST datasets/{id}/executeQueries, and datasource and refresh metadata via REST list endpoints. Stored Procedures is specific to InterSystems IRIS and Datasets (Semantic Models) to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational projections of stored data are the primary read/write surface for SQL-based syncs. Reports Report definitions and metadata read via GET /reports and per-workspace GET /groups/{id}/reports; enumerated to mirror the content inventory into a catalog. Tables is specific to InterSystems IRIS and Reports to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views SQL views expose curated slices of data for outbound replication. Dashboards and Tiles Dashboards and their pinned tiles read via GET /dashboards and /dashboards/{id}/tiles; inventoried to map dashboard content back to its source datasets. Views is specific to InterSystems IRIS and Dashboards and Tiles to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Schema organization scopes which tables a sync connection can see. Dataflows Power Query ETL definitions read via GET /groups/{id}/dataflows; used to document lineage from upstream sources into datasets. Schemas is specific to InterSystems IRIS and Dataflows to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Persistent Classes Object-model classes project to tables, so class data is reachable through SQL. Datasources and Gateways The connections behind datasets and dataflows and the on-premises gateways serving them, read via REST for lineage and dependency mapping. Persistent Classes is specific to InterSystems IRIS and Datasources and Gateways to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Globals The underlying multidimensional storage; typically accessed indirectly via SQL or objects in syncs. Refresh History Dataset refresh runs read via GET /datasets/{id}/refreshes, including status, type, and timing, to alert on failed or slow scheduled refreshes. Globals is specific to InterSystems IRIS and Refresh History to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

InterSystems IRIS Microsoft Power Bi Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls InterSystems IRIS for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling (timestamp or query-based).

DeliveryMicrosoft Power Bi does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: Microsoft Power Bi's output flows back as field updates on the originating InterSystems IRIS records.

Microsoft Power Bi InterSystems IRIS Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Microsoft Power Bi for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Pull-based: no webhooks or change-data-capture.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to InterSystems IRIS as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • InterSystems IRIS: Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits.
  • Microsoft Power Bi: Endpoints throttle per user and per app and return HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. Execute Queries allows up to 120 requests per minute per user and caps a query at 100,000 rows (or 1,000,000 values) and 15 MB; admin scanner metadata APIs are limited to about 500 requests per hour with 16 concurrent.
What ships with InterSystems IRIS ⇄ Microsoft Power Bi

Connect InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every InterSystems IRIS–Microsoft Power Bi connection.

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in InterSystems IRIS or Microsoft Power Bi instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever InterSystems IRIS or Microsoft Power Bi data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single InterSystems IRIS or Microsoft Power Bi record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your InterSystems IRIS ⇄ Microsoft Power Bi sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi.

How the InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi connectors work

InterSystems IRIS

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC, plus object and REST access layers
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Polling (timestamp or query-based); no standard webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits

Microsoft Power Bi

Integration surface
Power BI REST API, including the Execute Queries (DAX) endpoint and admin scanner APIs; a read-write XMLA endpoint is available on Premium, Premium-Per-User, and Fabric capacity.
Authentication
Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens. Supports delegated user tokens and app-only service principals; service principals must be enabled under the tenant's Developer settings and granted workspace access. Tenant-wide admin reads require the Tenant.Read.All scope.
Change detection
Pull-based: no webhooks or change-data-capture. Content is polled via REST list endpoints, dataset changes are inferred from Refresh History and the admin Activity Events audit log, and the scanner API's GetModifiedWorkspaces reports workspaces changed since a given time.
Capabilities
read
Rate limits
Endpoints throttle per user and per app and return HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. Execute Queries allows up to 120 requests per minute per user and caps a query at 100,000 rows (or 1,000,000 values) and 15 MB; admin scanner metadata APIs are limited to about 500 requests per hour with 16 concurrent.
How it works

How to connect InterSystems IRIS to Microsoft Power Bi — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    InterSystems IRIS connected
    Microsoft Power Bi connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the InterSystems IRIS and Microsoft Power Bi objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · InterSystems IRIS ⇄ Microsoft Power Bi
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    InterSystems IRIS Microsoft Power Bi
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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