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aabouniaj
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8 years ago
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Power BI replacing a web application?

Hello,   I'm new to Power BI and I come from a Software Engineering background. I was given a task to write a POC that would display the power of business intelligence and analytics. Currently, we ...
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    Eric_Zhang
    8 years ago
    aabouniaj wrote:

    Eric_Zhang

     

    Thank you for your response. Is it possible if Power BI can act as a web application? Customized and built via HTML and CSS from our end with Navigation and menus? Or, we have to build some sort of a Shell around the visuals and the dashboards? I read somewhere that Power BI can allows authentication/authorization using active directory and LDAP.

    aabouniaj

    Embedding reports via this approach Embedding with Power BI users (users own data) can allow Azure active directory authentication. I don't exactly know what you mean acting as a web application, it is underlying adding a <iframe> to your own web page. You can surely build some sort of Shell around the <iframe> via Power BI Javascript API, see these live demos. 

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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
8 years ago

You want to probably look at Power BI Embedded. Another approach is that you could use the Publish to Web feature and just iframe/embed it into your web application display. But the latter route won't provide specific authorization for the Power BI content.