RASON Desktop is used within Visual Studio Code to export RASON models into Power BI and Excel. Once a model has been created and validated, it can be exported directly into a Power BI report or Excel workbook.  This guide applies specifically to RASON Desktop. For information about the RASON modeling language, see the RASON User and Reference Guides.

In this walkthrough, you’ll use RASON Desktop in Visual Studio Code to export a RASON optimization model directly to Microsoft Power BI and Excel. The steps show the basic workflow for moving a model into the tools where you can solve, review results, and build reports or workbooks around the solution.

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