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best platform for cloud based Power BI
bryandhines Your description sounds like you would host the data, have a central login, and each client would see their own information. If that is the case, the only route I see is using Power BI Embedded which utilizes the Desktop, and a custom application which would control user access.
This scenerio would require you to stand up an Application that your clients could access and then visualize the Power BI reports.
The Power BI Service with dashboards and sharing is for use within a company. It isn't designed, nor does it support, you using it as an extension to service your clients.
Let me know if I'm mis-understanding something, and I can clarify a bit more.
Correct, we would host the data. I envisioned the client with their own Power BI login that was specific to their dataset/visualizations.
Azure, Amazon and a host of others allow you to set up virtual machines. Where each one of these machines may have its own power BI desktop. I wasn't sure if that would be a good solution for how BI operates today or not. It may be cost prohibitive. I'm still trying to feel out the right solution. Or if Power BI is even the right tool.
bryandhines The only reason i don't see that working is because each Power BI implementation is tied to each companies tenant/domain...
Take a look here, this should give you an idea of how Power BI is set up on the back end.
Others may have a different idea, but if you were thinking that it was a product you could spin up and configure for each client using the Power BI Service, I'm fairly certain it won't work like that.