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Business Reporter / API / Boomi

  • March 25, 2026
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GISANCAR
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Has anyone successfully managed to retrieve Business Report data from IFS to an external application - through API/Projection (or using Boomi).

Generate a BR report and then use that result as something that need to be transferred to an external application.

Our scenario is that we need to create balance sheet/P&L and then transfer the result to a Consolidation system for the parent company. These reports are created in BR.

I can find the created BR report in Excel_Report_Archive, as an Excel file but I have not managed to access the data. There doesn’t seem to be any generated API’s for Business reports either, for Quick Reports there are API’s automatically created that can be used to extract the data from IFS.

 

Or maybe this has to be solved in Excel, through the generated Excel Sheet - to manually trigger a transfer with some sort of script?

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PhillBronson
Hero (Customer)
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  • Hero (Customer)
  • March 26, 2026

Oh does Boomi not have connectors for excel?


GISANCAR
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  • Sidekick (Customer)
  • March 27, 2026

@PhillBronson, Yes, Boomi have an Excel connector. I would prefer working directly with the IFS projections that might or might not exist, in the same way that I work with other integrations to IFS.

Excel connector in Boomi is an alternative.


PhillBronson
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  • Hero (Customer)
  • March 27, 2026

@GISANCAR that makes sense, I doubt there are projections exposing the IFSINFO namespace. That's usually where the Information Sources for Business Reporter and Tabular Models live. I think the reason you aren’t finding an API for it is that Business Reporter sits on a completely different architecture. It bypasses the OData/Projection layer to hit those analytical views directly. Even the Excel_Report_Archive is more of a 'blob' storage for the formatted files rather than a data-extraction endpoint.