Is Power BI Service part of Power BI Desktop? and is used to publish reports

[lastnn30]

Hi 

Is that correct statment if I say:

Power BI Service is part of Power BI Desktop and is used to publish reports?

Thank you

[v-jinweili-msft]

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[v-jinweili-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @lastnn30 ,

As @ebeery  mentioned, Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service are two seperate elements of Power BI. 

The most common uses for Power BI Desktop are as follows:

• Connect to data
• Transform and clean that data, to create a data model
• Create visuals, such as charts or graphs, that provide visual representations of the data
• Create reports that are collections of visuals, on one or more report pages
• Share reports with others by using the Power BI service

While Power BI service is a cloud-based service,which is mainly used to share and refresh.

Below shows the features that are unique to either the Desktop application or to the Power BI service:

Here are some points provided in the Microsoft documentation, please kindly refer to:

What is Power BI?

What is Power BI Desktop?

What is the Power BI service?

Comparing Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service

Best Regards,
Jinwei Li
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[lastnn30]

Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate the help.

[ebeery]

@lastnn30 Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service are two seperate elements of Power BI.  I don't think it would be accurate to say "Power BI service is part of Power BI Desktop".

I would recommend referring to this documentation which describes the differences.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/power-bi-overview#the-parts-of-power-bi 

[lastnn30]

Thank you for your reply and the link. I am going to read the link now. But I really should not have said part of Power BI, maybe I wanted to say, PowerBI uses Power BI service to publish reports. Thank you.