With BI Link you can analyze data for your products or related categories, across various distribution channels, directly in the analytical tool of choice, helping you support business-driven decisions and overall product performance.

Walmart Data Ventures BI Link access is enabled for Charter Clients via a secured service account that can be utilized by any ODBC connection or native driver within an analytical tool. Once you have obtained the Walmart-provided, unique, secured key to enable the connection, you can access or perform queries directly against available BI Link data tables.

The item access that the data provides is driven by Charter Client GTIN (Global Trade Identification Number) ownership. Charter Clients will be presented with the items that they own based on their GLN (Global Locator Number)-to-GTIN-to-Walmart item mapping.

How Our Documentation is Organized

A basic understanding of the main sections of our docs can help you find what you need:

Get Started Guide This section (the section you are currently in) guides you through how to use a sample of tools to get started with BI Link. Although a few examples are described throughout this section, you can use any tool/client application that supports an ODBC connection or native driver. If you are new and need help setting up your BI Link access, start here.
Documentation Our documentation provides information about our available snapshot and incremental data tables and error codes you may encounter. Once you've set up your access, go here to find all the details about the data you can receive.
Release Notes Our Release Notes tell you everything you need to know about upcoming and past releases, as well as any updates to the documentation.
Learning Center The Learning Center provides additional support materials, such as extended explanations, table use cases, and links to additional learning resources (as applicable).
Glossary The Glossary provides element technical names, business names, and definitions.

Next Steps

Once you've been onboarded through your Account Manager and received your unique secure access key, you can enable the connection. Please contact your Account Manager to request access to BI Link if you need a secure key.

If you have your secured key, you can set up the BI Link data connector using the BI tool of your choice. For help setting up common tools, refer to the following applicable pages:

Disclaimer

Your use of documentation is at your own discretion and risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the data, documentation and all related software, components, and support are provided by Walmart on an ‘as-is’ and ‘as available’ basis without any warranties of any kind, and Walmart expressly disclaims any and all express and implied warranties, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, non-interference, and warranties arising from a course of dealing. You acknowledge that Walmart does not warrant that the APIs will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. Walmart may modify and delete API documentation in its sole discretion and without notice.

In no event shall Walmart be liable to you or any third parties for any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, those resulting from loss of use, damage to your computer system, loss of data or profits, or any liability arising out of or in connection with the use of the data, documentation, software, components, or support.