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Macola ERP to Microsoft Power Bi integration — real-time data sync

Keep Macola ERP 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 Macola ERP and Microsoft Power Bi

Put Macola ERP's records into Microsoft Power Bi as live data for reporting and dashboards, without nightly exports, and send the segments and metrics Microsoft Power Bi computes back where Macola ERP can use them.

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

ERP data is some of the most requested data for analysis and some of the hardest to pull: the record types are many, the APIs are strict, and export jobs break on every upgrade. Whether Macola ERP carries financials, operations, workforce data, or all three, those numbers belong in Microsoft Power Bi, next to the product, behavioral, and web data the team already measures.

Common use cases

  • 01 Mirror Workspaces, Reports, Dashboards, and Dataset metadata into a catalog database so teams discover Power BI content from a central index.
  • 02 Pull Dataflow and Datasource definitions to document lineage between Power BI and its upstream warehouses in a governance database.
  • 03 Replicate GL and AR data into a warehouse for consolidated financial reporting.
  • 04 Push web or EDI orders into Macola order entry instead of rekeying them.

Common sync patterns

Where Macola ERP holds the books: revenue and finance dashboards from live data

Financial records from Macola ERP land in Microsoft Power Bi as they change, so revenue, margin, and spend dashboards read current figures rather than last night's export.

Where Macola ERP runs order-to-cash: customer and account analytics

Orders, invoices, and account records from Macola ERP join the behavioral and usage data Microsoft Power Bi already tracks, so customer analysis spans activity and dollars in one view.

Where Macola ERP runs operations: inventory and fulfillment metrics

Operational records from Macola ERP become measurable in Microsoft Power Bi, joinable with the rest of what the company tracks for supply and fulfillment reporting.

What you can sync between Macola ERP 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.

Macola ERP objects Microsoft Power Bi objects How this pairing syncs
Customers Customer master records synced with CRMs so sales works from ERP truth. Datasources and Gateways The connections behind datasets and dataflows and the on-premises gateways serving them, read via REST for lineage and dependency mapping. Customers is specific to Macola ERP and Datasources and Gateways to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Vendors Vendor master data aligned with procurement and AP tools. Refresh History Dataset refresh runs read via GET /datasets/{id}/refreshes, including status, type, and timing, to alert on failed or slow scheduled refreshes. Vendors is specific to Macola ERP and Refresh History to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Items Inventory item master records mirrored to ecommerce and planning systems. Workspaces (Groups) Containers for content read via GET /groups (tenant-wide via GET /admin/groups); mirrored to reproduce the tenant's content hierarchy in a catalog. Items is specific to Macola ERP and Workspaces (Groups) to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sales Orders Order entry documents created from web or CRM orders and read back for status. Activity Events (Audit Log) Admin audit log of user and content actions read via GET /admin/activityevents; loaded for security, access, and usage reporting across the tenant. Sales Orders is specific to Macola ERP and Activity Events (Audit Log) to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Purchase Orders Procurement documents reconciled against receiving and vendor systems. Users and Access Workspace users and roles read via GET /groups/{id}/users or the admin scanner APIs; read for access reviews and identity reconciliation against an IdP. Purchase Orders is specific to Macola ERP and Users and Access to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Invoices AR documents synced to billing, CRM, and reporting destinations. 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. Invoices is specific to Macola ERP and Datasets (Semantic Models) to Microsoft Power Bi — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Macola ERP 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.

Macola ERP Microsoft Power Bi Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Macola ERP are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. CDC or change tracking on the underlying SQL Server database, or timestamp-based polling.

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 Macola ERP records.

Microsoft Power Bi Macola ERP 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 Macola ERP as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • 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 Macola ERP ⇄ Microsoft Power Bi

Connect Macola ERP and Microsoft Power Bi for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in Macola ERP 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 Macola ERP 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 Macola ERP or Microsoft Power Bi record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Macola ERP ⇄ 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 Macola ERP and Microsoft Power Bi.

How the Macola ERP and Microsoft Power Bi connectors work

Macola ERP

Integration surface
SQL Server database access, with product-level integration interfaces in newer Macola versions
Authentication
Database credentials (SQL Server or Windows authentication)
Change detection
CDC or change tracking on the underlying SQL Server database, or timestamp-based polling
Capabilities
read · write · CDC

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 Macola ERP 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 Macola ERP 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
    Macola ERP connected
    Microsoft Power Bi connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Macola ERP 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 · Macola ERP ⇄ 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
    Macola ERP Microsoft Power Bi
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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