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Global Datasets and Datasources
I've already started building out the DW in Azure SQL. I'm a developer/DB guy and these BI tools are new to me. The interaction between Power View, Power Query, Power BI, Power BI Designer and Power Pivot is pretty confusing, and the descriptions of what they do I find on the web aren't at the level of abtraction I find most useful. Overall, it seems that this technology is mostly geared towards peer-to-peer sharing of spreadsheets, rather than the top-down distribution of data that I'm envisioning.
The analysts I'm working with are using Tableau, but there high level encouragement to move away from this tool due, in part, to the challenge of user id management. We'd like single sign on capability so that we don't have to construct a lot of separate user ids and roles. We're already using Office 365 and would rather key access off of these existing ids.
- Power View - Visualizations (across platforms and apps)
- Power Pivot - Reporting model (data load, relationships and calculations), same as technology as Analysis Services but running in Excel
- Power Query - Data Aquisition and massaging (self service ETL if you will)
- Power BI Desktop (former Designer) - Power View+Power Pivot +Power Query bundled in one tool outside of Excel
- Power BI - Software as a Service at PowerBI.com that enables content rendering, development and collaboration that leverages all of the items above
This is high livel, but directionally accurate.
Power Pivot is the only Excel tool that works the way I think a BI should, but my notes include these problems:
- Schema name is left off the tables from SQL Database Azure
- All non dbo. table imports fail.
- Does not pick up relationships among views.
- Views show up in the list as both tables and views