Want to know about Data Flows

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Can anyone let me know what are Dataflows actually and how is it useful? i have been working with power bi since 9 months, i usually get my data from oracle database using "Get data" option dealing with 20 millions of data. So, how Data flows concept helps me here.

Looking for answers.

TIA

[ImkeF · Accepted solution]

Take a look here: https://ssbipolar.com/2018/11/22/positioning-power-bi-dataflows/ 

Dataflows can reduce the amount of queries sent to the underlying datasources. So especially if you don't have a datawarehouse but query your (ERP-) systems directly with many users, storing data in dataflows can make sense for example.

[V-lianl-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Dataflows can help organizations unify data from disparate sources and prepare it for modeling.

You can refer to these:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-dataflows-overview 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-dataflows-create-use 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-dataflows-enhanced-compute-engine 

Best Regards,
Liang
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[ImkeF · Accepted solution]

Take a look here: https://ssbipolar.com/2018/11/22/positioning-power-bi-dataflows/ 

Dataflows can reduce the amount of queries sent to the underlying datasources. So especially if you don't have a datawarehouse but query your (ERP-) systems directly with many users, storing data in dataflows can make sense for example.