Sage accounting data export / PowerBI connectivity

Hey all,

Brand new to Sage. Supporting our organization that has a small footprint of Sage accounting.

Appears we can manually dump canned reports to csv/excel; however, is there functionality to allow for direct connectivity to the back-end database(s)? 

I've found there are some vendors that provide some PowerBI connectors, unsure if these are needed at this time.

https://www.cdata.com/drivers/sagecloudaccounting/powerbi/

https://www.power-bi-connector-for-sage.com/connector_for_sage_one/ 

Thanks!