How to connect Microsoft Excel to Microsoft Power BI

Discover how to get data from Microsoft Excel (and from other sources) into Microsoft Power BI by locating it into your data warehouse that is connected to Microsoft Power BI.
Load your Microsoft Excel data into your central data warehouse to analyze it with Microsoft Power BI.
To analyze Microsoft Excel data with Microsoft Power BI, Pipes provides you with fast and easy access to all your data by automatically loading it in your data warehouse. Always up-top-date, no performance issues, without writing a single line of code.
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Connect your data warehouse

It will be the central database for your Microsoft Excel data. Pipes supports the most popular relational data warehouses in the cloud and on-premises.
2

Connect to Microsoft Excel

You just need to enter the associated credentials to allow Pipes access to the Microsoft Excel API.
3

Create a data pipeline

Create a pipeline from Microsoft Excel to your central data warehouse. The pipeline will run automatically on your defined schedule, so you will always have fresh data available.
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Access your Microsoft Excel data with Microsoft Power BI

Connect Microsoft Power BI to your data warehouse. You will see your Microsoft Excel data there in form of standardized tables. Now you can analyze your data without performance issues!

About Microsoft Excel

Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft and enables its users to do complex calculations, create charts, graphs and pivot tables and comes with a macro programming language called Visual Basic to apply more sophisticated workflows. Microsoft Excel is available for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS and offers a wide range of features to process data.

About Microsoft Power BI

Power BI is a business analytics service provided by Microsoft. It delivers its clients interactive visualizations with self-service business intelligence capabilities, where end users can create reports and dashboards by themselves.

Your benefits with Pipes

Get central access to all your data

Access data from 200+ data sources with our ready-to-use connectors and replicate it to your central data warehouse.

Automate your data workflows

Stop manually extracting data and automate your data integration without any coding. We maintain all pipelines for you and cover all API changes!

Enable data-driven decision-making

Empower everyone in your company with consistent and standardized data, automate data delivery and measure KPIs across different systems.