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Charlieb
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3 years ago

Gateway -> Report

Hi   PowerBI and Data Gateways are very confusing. My IT team have setup a gateway, with a .csv file as source. I have my report (using pasted data) on the PowerBI web app. I've addded everything u...
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collinq
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3 years ago

Hi Charlieb ,

 

Think of the Gateway as the tunnel between the cloud (Service) and your data (inside your firewall).  At a high level, the gateway is just the tunnel that lets you securely pass data.  The Data Source that you set up that uses the Gateway is the link between the Service and the data itself.

 

There is a description here of the various components that might be helpful:

Power BI – Apps, Workspaces, Dashboards, Reports and Datasets Defined : :: Welcome To EPM Strategy ::

Here is an article on Gateways:

On-premises data gateway - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

And, here is one on Data Sources:

Data sources for the Power BI service - Power BI | Microsoft Learn