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Is PowerBI the tool for me?
A current recurring task we have is that we get nightly sales reports via FTP which are loaded in to SQLServer. This data is then manipulated through SQL views and exported into Excel where graphs, c...
cosmos To just extend on what Greg_Deckler suggests, I would say that PowerBI makes this process easier. Use PowerBI exclusively, connect to SQL, create reports, share.
Extending this to the Service you can create all these reports, schedule a refresh (or not if you use direct query to the SQL database) and share the dashboards. Then you don't need to email anything, and the end users can see/access the reports any time they want to.
- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
One last thing on this, I did notice that in the "Started" category for Ideas, there is one called "send report or dashboard as email" so it is coming.
