If you would like to automate Power BI deployments, or want to include Power BI reports in your devops pipeline you should check out Power BI Actions which a former colleague of mine created: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=maikvandergaag.maikvandergaag-power-bi-actions Power BI is both a self service BI and an enterprise BI tool. In a lot of cases, people publish
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In an enterprise environment there are various ways of how users can interact with data using Power BI. Some users have a need for consuming pre-defined management reports, while other users wish to build their own datasets and create their own analysis. In discussion with colleagues we came up with five types of business users
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The differences between Power BI Service and Power BI Report Server are well documented in the Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment whitepaper and the online documentation. The whitepaper by Chris Webb and Melissa Coates also includes a comparison between Power BI Service and Power BI Report Server (Jun 2017 version). Because this is a
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When you are creating Power BI reports. Do you develop them online or in desktop mode? If you are doing pure self service BI for quick prototyping, it doesn't matter all that much. However, if you use live connections, you may want to use Desktop since you can easily switch between test and production servers.
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Happy first birthday, Power BI! Exactly one year ago, Power BI was released in public. But this wasn't the only release: one month after the public release of Power BI my daughter Sanne was born.
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While looking into the possibilities of moving my customer's BI infrastructure into the cloud, my primary question was how to handle the lack of cloud SSAS. But there's a lot more to keep in mind. Here's a few things that I think should be thought of from an architectural point of view: not only in
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Some time ago I read Chris Webb blogged "Thoughts On The Power BI Announcements At The MS Data Insights Summit", where between the lines was this rather interesting point: For the last few years my customers have asked me when MS was going to release SSAS in the cloud and I’ve always replied that Power
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