PowerBI Robots - Does Microsoft plan on doing something similar?

Hi, Shubaham.

The only information collected on the PowerBI Robots web application is the user's email when a new account is created. That email is used to identify the user and send him or her notifications regarding PowerBI Robots such as updates or policy changes. The PowerBI Robots agent doesn't collect any personal information. All information used on the PowerBI Robots agent is stored locally, on the user's infrastructure. 

The images and PDFs are always generated locally on the computer running the agent. There is an option to generate slideshow visualizations and, in this case, the generated images are uploaded to an Azure Blob Storage owned by DevScope, although we can make available a feature to upload to your own Azure Blob Storage. If you generate PDFs or your target is filesystem, the generated content is stored on the local storage or where you specify it.

There are two points in time when PowerBI Robots asks you for your Power BI credentials: when configuring the Agent and when creating the playlist. It only asks for credentials because the only way we to display and generate images form Power BI is to use the powerBI SDK and we need to provide Power BI with a security token to access its data. This security token is returned by the PowerBI SDK and is always stored as a session cookie locally with an expiration date and according to OAUTH protocol. Your browser will use this token/cookie stored locally when you are creating the playlist, and the agent running locally will use this cookie when rendering the images.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the help. I am also concerned about the cost and also about the security. I really would rather just use features within the Power Bi web space rather than giving access to yet another company to do it third party. I plan on doing a test, but I highly doubt that my company can go that route. 

A further update on Power BI Robots, a month in: I really like it! It's really powerful stuff, and very simple to use. You can see it's a v1 product as there's still lots of room for enhancements and also the documentation is a bit lacking but still it's dead simple to run it, provided you have a computer you can use as an always-on server for the little agent the service requires. It's really changed how we use Power BI at our company - now I'm just pushing daily reports out to people, rather than people logging into PBI much. Even though the Robots reports are static, that's plenty good enough for most of our users. And you don't need PBI licenses (or the log-in or access hassles that can come along with those), you can email to anyone in your org. (I notice that Robots doesn't seem to allow me to email to aliases or emails outside our org.) For us Robots was the last piece of our PBI puzzle, now it's rapidly becoming ubiquitous in our org.

i am getting this error,even my power bi account is logged in.Can you please help me?