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Clarification on the Power Platform from a Power BI perspective
Thanks Anonymous for your reply.
I have seen this video before and, with you posting it, it confirms my belief.
The presenter says at the beginning 'We kinda do Power BI'. This tells me that, although Power BI is under the Power Platform umbrella, along with Power Automate/Power Apps/Virtual Agents, if your focus is BI then PBI is the tool you use and a BI professional wouldn't be expected to start developing Power Apps, and the like.
I thought I would've received more replies to this question (alhtough it's not a technical question, it is a career question). I wonder if it's due to the answer being 'no, you don't need to learn the Power Platform if you focus is BI', which may dismiss the use case of the Power Platform - far from it - the Power Platform tools are very useful and I have no doubt will become very popular, but I am seeking to know if a Power BI developer, with a career in BI, should (needs to) focus their energy on the other tools of the Power Platform to secure job opportunities. I do take a look at job boards but the experience of those on here would be useful too.
Maybe another way of asking my question would be to ask 'what percentage (roughly) of PBI developers develop using other Power Platform tools as part of their job?' or 'who, on here, that are PBI/BI developers develop using other Power Platform tools as part of their job?'
If anyone would care to share their views it would be interesting to note.
Thanks.
HI D_PBI,
>>Maybe another way of asking my question would be to ask 'what percentage (roughly) of PBI developers develop using other Power Platform tools as part of their job?' or 'who, on here, that are PBI/BI developers develop using other Power
It is hard to say which one should be better, they are working for different usage scenarios. (MS also provides the features to integrate with power bi and powerapps)
If you only want to do some report design and share, power bi should be a better choice.
If you are paying attention to trace the data source status, work with uncommon data source/API, or required some automatic operations, I will suggest you use the power platform.
In addition, you can also use these products at the same time.
For example:
#1. you need to use uncommon data sources which power bi does not provide data connectors to design reports.
You can use power platform CDM(common data model) to connect to the data source, then you can use power bi data connector(CDM) to get data from the processed data source and design report.
#2, You need to do some advanced trace and notice operations which power bi not supported.
You can choose to use power platform(dataflow trigger) integrated with power bi to achieve your requirements.
Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng