Power PB Embedded - Data Access via oData / Large Multi-tenant SaaS system

[Anonymous]

Prototyping BI for embedded dashboards. Our system is a multi-tenant (large), distributed across 4 Azure zones, using SQL Elastic sharding for data access (many shards). All data access is "protected" via API, which ensures tenancy filtering etc;

1. I cannot understand if PowerBI Embedded support oData

2. RLS is a non-starter, due to the large qty of tenants and dynamic growing tenants, as  near as I can understand.

3. I really just want to pass the SSO token (or username / pass) to Power BI embedded, and then that will ensure correct tenancy based filtering.

4. Has anyone solved this type of usage with BI embedded ?

[Eric_Zhang]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Prototyping BI for embedded dashboards. Our system is a multi-tenant (large), distributed across 4 Azure zones, using SQL Elastic sharding for data access (many shards). All data access is "protected" via API, which ensures tenancy filtering etc;

1. I cannot understand if PowerBI Embedded support oData

2. RLS is a non-starter, due to the large qty of tenants and dynamic growing tenants, as  near as I can understand.

3. I really just want to pass the SSO token (or username / pass) to Power BI embedded, and then that will ensure correct tenancy based filtering.

4. Has anyone solved this type of usage with BI embedded ?

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1. You could use any data source those are supported in Power BI desktop. However, as of now, there's no way to schedule refresh the dataset in Power BI Embedded. And only Azure SQL database&warehouse supports DirectQuery mode.
   So if oData is preferred in your case, to refresh, you would manually refresh the data in the pbix file and re-import.
2. Regarding 2&3, Row level security with Power BI Embedded looks promising, why you think it is a non-starter? Or alternatively try to apply filter  when embedding.