topic Re: Hybrid Report Server and Service - Audit Use Case in Report Server

Hybrid Report Server and Service - Audit Use Case

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:38:37 GMT

Hi,

I work in an audit community and I have some questions and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.

We use PBI Report Server for reporting but the agency we audit has PBI cloud service. Since we are technically agency employees, we could use that too, but have not as of yet.

Conceivably, we could build data marts/flow PBI Service and report from there. This would work for a lot of audit projects, since we have entrance conferences and the agency knows what we are looking at broadly anyhow.

For investigative work, highly-sensitive data, or even planning work, this gets a little hairy. We obviously cannot expose this data to the agency. One great example is whistleblower data. We would never want that exposed, so that is the use case for Report Server.

I am just thinking we could use datamarts for regular/recurring data that we use for broad audit projects and we could (I think) connect to Service with PBI Desktop (RS Version) and publish the report to Report Server if we did not want the report exposed to agency personnel. Am I right on this?

If we were to go down this hybrid route, if we connect with PBI Desktop (RS version) to the PBI data mart/flow, what data/metadata actually gets exposed to the agency?

Any help appreciated, thank you!

Re: Hybrid Report Server and Service - Audit Use Case

Icey — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 09:49:13 GMT

Hi Anonymous ,

To my knowledge, I'm afriad it is not supported to use datamart on Power BI Report Server currently.

Best Regards,

Icey

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Re: Hybrid Report Server and Service - Audit Use Case

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:40 GMT

Icey I think I could create a dataflow and connect to that in RS version, right? Although I would love to use data mart, this may do the trick too.

Re: Hybrid Report Server and Service - Audit Use Case

Icey — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:23:56 GMT

Hi Anonymous ,

But it is not supported to refresh data from dataflow in Power BI Report Server.

Reference: Power BI report data sources in Power BI Report Server - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Best Regards,

Icey

Re: Hybrid Report Server and Service - Audit Use Case

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:07:13 GMT

Ahhh, thank you!