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Question: what is the best way to connect to Thomson Reuters data using Power BI?

I am a Business Intelligence consultant, and my client is a subscriber of Thomson Reuters. Currently he gets his data from Thomson Reuters (financial statements of specific companies) in Excel files, which are bloated with macros and useless cells. They are too heavy to process them efficiently, so I clean them manually. Then I combine all those files and create a dashboard using Power BI. Needless to say, this is less than ideal.

Ideally I would like to get JSON, XML, CSV or something similar via API -- all selected companies at once -- is it possible?

P. S. Not sure if this is the right space though.

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Accepted answers

Christiaan Meihsl

For fundamental data you might also want to look at a separate product, TRKD (Thomson Reuters Knowledge Direct), which has a web services SOAP API that delivers XML data.

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Christiaan Meihsl

@Karl Young

What Thomson Reuters product is your customer using to get this data ?

Karl Young

Christiaan, my customer is using Global Fundamentals and the platform is EIKON.

Jirapongse

To get JSON, you can use Eikon Scripting API. However, Eikon Scripting API requires Eikon Scripting Proxy. You need to run Eikon Scripting Proxy on the same machine in order to retrieve the data. Moreover, Eikon Scripting Proxy requires Eikon credential. Therefore, this could be the problem because Eikon and Eikon Scripting Proxy with the same login may not be able to run simultaneously. In addition, this product is still in EAP (Early Access Program) phase with the main aim of validating the APIs.

Other Eikon APIs return an object so that application needs to access object's properties or methods in order to retrieve the data. However, the application can programmatically convert the object to JSON, XML, or CSV format. For more information, please refer to COM APIs for use in custom applications or .NET APIs for use in custom applications in this page.

Christiaan Meihsl

For fundamental data you might also want to look at a separate product, TRKD (Thomson Reuters Knowledge Direct), which has a web services SOAP API that delivers XML data.

wayne.winter

Did you manage to come right?

I am trying to do the same thing.

Karl Young

My client mentioned that the service suggested by Christiaan costs almost twice as much, so we ended up writing a VBA script that pre-processed the Excel files from Thomson Reuters for Power BI consumption.

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