Power BI Service — Features and Uses
Do you know that learning Power BI Service is as important as Power BI Desktop?
Most beginners in Power BI follow the below path:
- Decide to learn Power BI and search for learning resources
- Take up courses online/offline
- Do projects on Power BI desktop
- Publish them to their portfolio
The most common pattern that I noticed, is that most courses teach them in-depth about PBI desktop but focus less on PBI service.
But once you start working in the industry as a Power BI developer, it becomes essential to know more about PBI service. Also, if you’re a Power BI Administrator for your organization, you will have almost 50% of tasks to be carried out in PBI Service.
The Power BI reports are deployed and consumed using PBI service. The learning curve is shorter for PBI service compared to that of PBI desktop.
Tasks done in Power BI Service
In this article, I’m sharing a few features/tasks that are most commonly used/done in PBI service:
- Publish Power BI reports and provide the relevant type of access to the end users
- Create and manage workspace content and users
- Schedule and monitor refreshes of the reports
- Creation of Power BI dashboards (Google report vs dashboard in PBI)
- Manage gateways for on-premises data sources
- Promote and Endorse content
- Create usage metrics report
- Do basic editing of published reports
- Apply Row level security
- External sharing of reports
- Get Quick Insights
- Creating deployment pipelines, dataflows, etc.
Thus from the above list, you would have understood the importance and capabilities of PBI Service.
Do let me know if I’ve missed something on this list!
Let me know if you’d like me to write detailed articles on each important feature of PBI Service.
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