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Getting Intelex data into Power BI: OData and the REST API

A side by side comparison of the Intelex OData Data Service and the REST API, covering protocol, what each exposes, authentication and paging limits.A side by side comparison of the Intelex OData Data Service and the REST API, covering protocol, what each exposes, authentication and paging limits.

If someone exports a CSV from Intelex on the third working day of every month and calls that the monthly numbers, you already have an integration. It just runs on a person. The question is which of the two documented live routes replaces it: the Intelex OData Data Service, or the Intelex REST API.

They are not interchangeable. One publishes a report you already built; the other queries objects directly. Picking the wrong one shows up two months later, when the refresh breaks.

OData Data Service or REST API: which one do you actually want?

OData exposes a report you have already built. The REST API exposes objects directly.

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