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Advocate IDashboard Vs Report
Community ChampionA dashboard is more of a high level view of something specific that you want to monitor ;
1. gives you a high level view of what it is you are monitoring
2. alerts you to issues that might be happening
3. gives you information in order to action something
Reports, as in Standard type reporting tends to be more detailed in nature and more for day to day operational type activities. You can have a dashboard that drills down into a detailed report, however it depends.
Power BI is not necessarily the right solution for all reporting, it really just depends on what your requirements are.
Advocate IThanks, my requirement is to share some charts with 10-50 other users. I seem to be struggling to do this.
Tableau made this a lot simpler to manage..
- vanessafvg
i guess its just about understanding the differences between power bi and tableau.
You can create a dashboard in a power bi desktop file and then publish that to the power bi service which you can then share with your users.
What is it that you are struggling with exactly, its very easy to share power bi but you just need to know where to do it.
Things to consider
1. How often does the data need to be refresh
2. are all these users on your office 365 domain
3. how will you update your data.
4. Are you set up on the Power BI service yet?
etc
- Benjamin_500
I cant workout how, in PowerBi Desktop to make a Dashboard over a Report?
I admit I am very new to this, where as Tableu I get easily. There are obviously a few issues, like no duel axis for line charts etc.. but i guess they will come.Right now, I really cant tell the differance between a DB and a Report and I think i need to make a DB so that i can publish it as a DB and share that with my team? Any help is greatly appreciated.
- vanessafvg
Did you say you have built dashboards in tableau before, what is the difference?
Lets start like this,
1. what is your objective ie. your functional requirement which means, what story are you trying to tell with the data?
2. What do you users need to see in order for to be valuable to them, do they all have the same requirement.
3. Is it year / quarter / month view? Or is it a daily view?
by the sounds of it if you are showing graphs it probably a dashboard. To get a better idea of what a dashboard is and how to make it a great dashboard
read this http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/misc/WhyMostDashboardsFail.pdf