Connect Planful and
Power BI with AI

Automate the flow of budgets, forecasts, and actuals from Planful into Power BI dashboards. Stop exporting CSVs, reformatting dimension hierarchies, and manually refreshing reports every month-end.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync approved budgets and forecasts to Power BI datasets automatically

When budgets are locked or forecasts finalized in Planful, push the latest versions to Power BI datasets with proper dimension mappings. Finance teams get real-time variance dashboards without waiting for IT to refresh data extracts.

Build board-ready variance reports combining Planful plans and ERP actuals

Pull budget, forecast, and scenario data from Planful alongside actuals from your ERP into unified Power BI models. Create automated variance analysis dashboards that update as Planful versions change, eliminating manual reconciliation.

Generate commentary and annotations from Power BI insights back to Planful

Capture variance explanations and business commentary written in Power BI reports and write them back to corresponding Planful line items. Keep planning context and analysis aligned across both systems without double-entry.

Automate scenario comparison dashboards for executive strategic planning

When new scenarios are created in Planful, automatically generate corresponding Power BI comparison views with side-by-side metrics and waterfall charts. Strategy teams can visualize multiple futures without rebuilding reports for each planning cycle.

Alert finance teams when Power BI threshold breaches need forecast updates

Monitor KPIs in Power BI dashboards and trigger notifications to update corresponding forecast assumptions in Planful when metrics exceed variance thresholds. Close the loop between monitoring actuals and adjusting plans.

Archive historical Planful versions with corresponding Power BI report snapshots

When budget or forecast versions are finalized in Planful, capture the data alongside a snapshot of the Power BI dashboards that were current at lock time. Create an auditable archive of what was planned and how it was presented.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Planful and Power BI with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands Planful's dimensional structure—accounts, entities, versions, scenarios—and how to map them to Power BI's data models, relationships, and DAX measures.

AI that speaks both financial planning and business intelligence

Redbird reads Planful's cube structures, account hierarchies, custom dimensions, and version metadata, then intelligently maps them to Power BI tables, columns, and relationships. Our AI understands when to flatten hierarchies for visualization, preserve parent-child relationships for drill-through, and handle slowly-changing dimensions across budget cycles. You don't write transformation scripts—Redbird figures out how your chart of accounts in Planful should structure dimension tables in Power BI.

Dimensional hierarchy mapping
Version and scenario handling
Account structure preservation
Entity consolidation logic
10×

faster than building custom ETL pipelines and maintaining Power BI refresh schedules

No SSIS packages, Python scripts, or manual dimension table management

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Planful and Power BI simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Planful or Power BI.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Planful into Power BI, or from Power BI back into Planful. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from budget locks in Planful or dashboard refreshes in Power BI—Redbird connects both directions.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Budget version locked

Fires when a budget or forecast version is finalized and locked for reporting.

Trigger

Scenario created or modified

Triggers when new planning scenarios are built or existing ones are updated.

Trigger

Consolidation completed

Fires after multi-entity consolidation runs finish processing intercompany eliminations.

Action

Extract cube data by version

Pull budget, forecast, or actuals data for specific versions with full dimensional context.

Action

Update assumption values

Write back driver assumptions or input values to specific accounts and scenarios.

Action

Create or update annotations

Add commentary and variance explanations to specific line items or cells.

Power BI
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Dataset refresh completed

Fires when a Power BI dataset finishes refreshing from its data sources.

Trigger

Scheduled report generated

Triggers when a paginated or Power BI report runs on schedule and is ready for distribution.

Trigger

Data-driven alert threshold met

Fires when metrics in a dashboard exceed configured threshold values or variance limits.

Action

Update dataset tables

Write or append data to existing Power BI dataset tables via XMLA endpoints.

Action

Trigger dataset refresh

Initiate an on-demand refresh of a Power BI dataset to pull latest data.

Action

Export report to file

Generate PDF, Excel, or PowerPoint exports of specific reports with current data.

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Power BI

Ready to connect your stack?

See how Redbird syncs Planful and Power BI in minutes. Stop building brittle ETL workflows and start automating financial reporting with AI that understands both systems.

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