Team Foundation Service Reporting (is it possible to point it to a BI Tool or excel?)

Hi, I've read about TF Service and see that it has very limited reporting capabilities, but I have not been capable anything regarding pointing it to excel or a BI tool.
My question is:
would I have the ability to point it to a Bi tool or even Excel to the data cube to allow to run reporting?
If you can please tell me or refer me to a web page where I can see that,  it would be great.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Jose

hi Jose
you're probably using the wrong forum as you're looking for TFS Service aka VisualStudio Online and not the on-premise TFS Server.
for on-premise TFS server you can use this link
Excel Reports
currently VisualStudio Online does not have a cube and therefore the reporting is very limited and restricted to work item charting
Visualize progress (work item charting)
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