This document provides an overview of the Neo4j Connector for BI (ODBC), which allows accessing Neo4j graph data from desktop BI tools like Excel and Power BI. It demonstrates connecting to Neo4j from Excel and discusses how the connector works under the hood. While currently read-only, the connector uses the Neo4j Go driver and custom C-bindings to enable ODBC connectivity. The presentation encourages attendees to learn more about integrating Neo4j seamlessly with Excel for insights and to contact Neo4j for additional information.

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Neo4j in a Microsoft Shop!
Richard Macaskill,
Product Manager, Core Database

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What is it?
What are we talking about
today?
• A read-only ODBC-compliant
connector
• Multi-platform
• Access Neo4j data from your
desktop environment
• Easy to integrate from Excel,
Power BI etc.
Neo4j Connector for BI
(ODBC)
a.k.a.
Simba Neo4j BI Connector

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Learning Objectives
• Learn about Neo4j and ODBC connectors
• Integrate seamlessly with Excel for value and insights
• Deep dive technical insights into how it all works

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Demo Time
Creating an ODBC connection and consuming
from MS Excel

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So, how does it all work?
• Built on top of the official Neo4j Go driver
• Uses custom C-bindings (only built enough to make ODBC work)
• Developed by Magnitude Simba (home to ODBC)

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It’s early days…
• Read-only
• Uses a scan to infer the ‘schema’ – can be problematic with larger stores
and some tools (Power BI refreshes schema views very frequently)

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Find out more…
• https://neo4j.com/download-center/
• https://www.magnitude.com/products/data-connectivity

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Thank you!
Contact us at
sales@neo4j.com

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Neo4j Aura Enterprise is allowing us to realize our
vision to build a knowledge graph that unifies all
product knowledge to improve our retail
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