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Meragao
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7 years ago
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Power BI Embedded - is an premise gateway required?

Hi there,   We have a potential use case where we have an on premise Windows Forms Application front end with a SQL Server back end.  We would like to generate dashboards using PowerBI Embedded fro...
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    v-jiascu-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi Meragao,

     

    Yes, for example, if you have an Excel file on your computer, the Power BI Service doesn't know its location and can't reach it either. Now the on-premises Gateway will do its job as a bridge. If the data is on the cloud service like Azure or AWS, the on-premises Gateway isn't necessary. Because Power BI Service can access it directly if the Service has permissions.

     

     

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Meragao
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7 years ago

Thanks for the reply, so, just to clarify you're saying that the gateway would be required to connect on prem data to the cloud?

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v-jiascu-msft
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7 years ago

Hi Meragao,

 

Yes, for example, if you have an Excel file on your computer, the Power BI Service doesn't know its location and can't reach it either. Now the on-premises Gateway will do its job as a bridge. If the data is on the cloud service like Azure or AWS, the on-premises Gateway isn't necessary. Because Power BI Service can access it directly if the Service has permissions.

 

 

Best Regards,