# Consumers

In the Connectors, you can connect **external consumers** to integrate your Platform data with third-party tools — whether for data visualization reports using your favorite BI tool, for data lineage tracking using an OpenLineage-compatible backend, or for direct SQL access from any external tool through a [**Trino consumer**](/en/product/connectors/consumers/trino/index.md).

![consumer](picts/consumers-home.png)

Users connecting from the external analytics tool will be authenticated through your [Project's Identity Access Manager (IAM)](/en/product/iam/index) and allowed to access only the parts of your data system (tables or queries) that they have [IAM permissions](/en/product/iam/users/roles) on.

- [Create a consumer](#create-a-consumer)
- [Manage permissions for a consumer's users](#manage-permissions-for-a-consumer39s-users)

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## Create a consumer

To create a consumer, click on **New consumer**. 

![consumer](picts/consumers-add.png)

Choose the consumer that you want to connect.

?> Power BI and OpenLineage each support one consumer per project. [Trino consumers](/en/product/connectors/consumers/trino/index.md) work differently — create as many as you need.

![consumer](picts/consumers-add2.png)

Upon confirming, the new consumer will be added as a new [IAM application](/en/product/iam/project-iam/application/index) in your Project, with the OAuth redirect URLs and secrets automatically pre-configured for the connector to work.

{Connect a Power BI consumer}(#/en/product/connectors/consumers/power-bi/index)

{Connect an OpenLineage solution}(#/en/product/connectors/consumers/openlineage/index)

For direct SQL/query access from an external tool, create a **Trino consumer** instead. It generates a ready-to-use Trino connection string from its own **Trino consumers** section, not the **New consumer** button above.

{Create a Trino consumer}(#/en/product/connectors/consumers/trino/index)

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## Manage permissions for a consumer's users

The consumer's users are the people that will be using the external BI tool and connect to the Platform Project to read its data.  

!> All users that will use the Platform as the source of data, even if they are external to the Platform, will have to be registered in a Project's IAM in order to access its data. They will only access the data associated to their [roles and groups](/en/product/iam/users/index).

Giving a new user the role of *Analytics Consumer* from the Identity Access Manager will ensure they will have full access to the Project's entire data from any external consumer. By default, Users with the role of *Admin* will also have full access to the Project's data.

It is impossible to restrict access to only one consumer. In other words, if a user has the permissions to access tables and data (typically through the IAM role *Analytics Manager*), they will be able to access it from any external consumer.

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###  Need help? 🆘

> At any step, you can create a ticket to raise an incident or if you need support at the [OVHcloud Help Centre](https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/fr-home?id=csm_index). Additionally, you can ask for support by reaching out to us on the Data Platform Channel within the [Discord Server](https://discord.com/channels/850031577277792286/1163465539981672559). There is a step-by-step guide in the [support](/en/support/index.md) section.