Hi All, having now gone live we are seeing the limitations of the reporting / dashboards. Power BI integration and/or improved reporting features please! 

Also interested in PowerBI integration

Also waiting for powerBI integration

Can someone please post an update on the status of this feature

Also VERY interested in this feature. The out of the box reporting is basic and does not allow much exploration. 

2 Year old thread now by the way ???

Agreed. Would be very helpful. Please add this. 

Why nothing but the sound of crickets...

sounds great. looking forward to it. we are using Power BI, but need to manual export the data weekly to update the reports.

Looking forward for power bi connector....any update on this will be helpful?

don't expect it - we have heard cheap and cheerful cleargraph but that is now in disarray..   very angry customer.

Honestly, I can't understand why a company who produce software to allow (in part) service providers to respond to customer requests can't figure out how to respond to customer requests.

Surely by now the multitude of requests for this feature, updates on progress, updates on anything would have been noticed, but instead there is just a months-long echoing silence.

This kind of support forum thread is an excellent example of why not to use FreshService or FreshDesk - FreshDesk Inc is simply unresponsive to customer requests for the simplest of things, communication.

Get your act together. Give us an update; give us a timeline; show us some screenshots of the product in development; ask for volunteers to test (there will be plenty); whatever you do, don't do nothing.

Apologies for the delayed response. We have limited knowledge of power BI tool and hence we are working with a partner to explore this further. Once we have clarity on how to build this integration, I will update you all. Sorry again! Will get back to you quickly. Appreciate your patience. 

Viminya

Freshservice Product Team

@Viminya Doss - Three months ago you said you were working on a demo of PowerBI integration with a developer. Has freshservice gone backwards?

Oooo. I feel so much better now...

Indeed this has become quite frustrating. I myself have expressed this recently through multiple channels. Both freshdesk and freshservice should be built upon the same foundation. So one would be believe that the apps/integrations available to freshdesk would be easily made available to the freshservice instance. As a previous freshdesk user and now freshservice user I've always been a big promoter of your products but my time with freshservice and waiting for development and integrations has been frustrating.

I needed this while back and gave up and subsequently have a manual process to pull reports. the power bi integration is much needed, i dont understand what can take so long, but further more we as a community can help with beta testing which will help fast track this.

Viminya, I appreciate you replying again, but it's not encouraging to hear that several months after Rajiv said this would, and I quote, "ship very soon" - and three months after you said you were working with a developer, we now hear that you (the company):

• doesn't have the product integrated,
• doesn't know how to do the integration, and
• doesn't have a timeline.

Joshua has communicated eloquently and professionally the frustration many of us are feeling  about FreshService at this time. It's particularly frustrating to get breathless announcements from FreshService about new features that have been added which I don't think have been high on anyone's list, while PowerBI support has been requested for two years. Maybe it is time to move on to a product with the features and customer support that we really need. 

Joshua, Michael, Kevin & others,

First up, I'd like to apologize for the poor communication from us on this thread and on this forum. 

We strive to be responsive to our customers/users across channels and, where possible, engage healthily and be transparent about what we're working on with our users (There are several examples of this on these forums).  However,  being part of an organization that prides itself on great customer support and one that enables teams across the world to deliver great support to their customers, I'm personally disappointed that we dropped the ball with our poor communication on this thread/forum. 

We can and will do better to communicate clearly, transparently and in a timely manner with our users moving forward.

As a product team, we're always prioritizing between a large volume of feature requests and focussing on the capabilities that deliver the most impact to our customers.  This also means we can't ourselves build everything that's being asked of us, which is why we have a robust set of APIs, a developer platform and leverage developer partners to build out integrations where possible. In this case, our well intentioned plans to leverage a developer partner fell through and we weren't able to re-set expectations in a timely manner. Please note that we have been able to deliver many capabilities on our reporting roadmap to customers over the past year and are continuing to invest in reporting capabilities (stay tuned for more on this) for Freshservice.

Getting back to Freshservice-PowerBI in question,we are exploring options including scheduled exports of data and I will get back on this thread by end of the week with a clear plan to address this need. 

On the issue of better communication, as promised above, you can expect clear engagement from us moving forward. 

We value your continued trust in Freshservice and thanks for your patience.

Venkat Balasubramanian

Sr. Director, Product Management

Thanks Venkat,

Look forward to your update.

I think the frustration here is that we all feel we are very limited in what reporting and analytical capabilities we are provided out of the box. Analytics are very important when running a modern service desk.

We see a tool that Microsoft is pouring investment into becoming ubiquitous for analytics and its free to end users. The community is simply asking for a easy way to connect this into your platform, nothing more. 

Instead we hear about development of other reporting options that we don’t already know how to use and will cost us money to licence. 

Personally I work for a large organisation and I’ve had to recommend against 3 other departments  spinning up Freshservice instances because of this issue as I know there are products out there that do this function better. (Zendesk for example)

Thanks very much for the update Venkat.

I have to say I think the guys at FreshService have been doing a great job. The product has been developed at a terrific rate and has come a long way in the two years I've been using it.

I know comms on this thread have not been great but I've also found my contacts at FreshService to be really good at communicating directly and I've had some really positive conversations regarding development work and they've always followed through with results.

The fact that we are all pushing for this feature is evidence that you have done a good job on the product, we would rather stick with it and push for the few extra features we want than go for another product.

Thanks for your work, I'm looking forward to the next update.

M

Thanks for your reply, Venkat. It's good to hear some clear timeframes, and a recommitment to better communication. The FreshService product remains one with significant value, and it's been a great help to my organisation; I'm keen to see it get better.

I'm sure we all understand that developer time is limited, and that not all features can be delivered instantaneously - but that's also why I think a really rich integration system is of so much benefit. Rather than re-inventing the wheel, you can take advantage of work other companies are doing; this also works to make your product become an integral part of systems which your customers may be more committed to (I know my organisation is much more likely to move away from FreshService than we are to move away from Office 365 and Azure AD, for example).

Power BI integration, along with a live or nearly live update feed, would resolve two of the top four most requested features in this forum, one of which is outstanding for 4 years. It would be a big win for you and for us to see it become a reality. I'm looking forwards to seeing what you can deliver here.