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dfylstra
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11 years ago

Ability for applications to READ data from your Power BI account

Thanks to its open API that enables many applications to feed data into your Power BI account for quick visualization, Power BI is rapidly becoming an "integration point" for data that is summarized,...
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sqlchicken
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11 years ago

+1 from me as well. I've actually gotten a request from customer on this very scenario where they want to process data in Power BI and then ingest it in a custom application. Currently the only workaround (that we can think of in this case) is delivering the dashboard in a web wrapper.

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    kgc
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    11 years ago

    +1 This would be huge!  Being able to to use insights discovered from a user in Power BI, and then being able to update another application from those findings is what we are trying to figure out.  We've been looking into this seeing how it could be done so that we could get a quick turn around from insights to actionability fueled by Power BI.