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zubair
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10 years ago
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New to Power Bi. Confusing with our setup, suggestions needed.

Hi everyone, I'm new to Power Bi, and have only tested the free version to see if it was something for us. The product looks very exciting and I would like your help to understand how the setup c...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    zubair No, not to my knowledge. Couple other things (GA, General Availability) for SQL 2016 is June 1st, I am not aware of any restrictions on data sources, so using SSAS as a datasource - a PBI Desktop file to create reports and "sharing" that in you SSRS portal should most definetely be a valid scenerio.

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wonga
Continued Contributor
10 years ago

zubair If you don't intend to use the Power BI Service at all (i.e. not publishing reports), then you don't even need a gateway or bridge as you call it.

 

Based on your post, it sounds like the super users would develop the reports and then share the reports as PBIX files throughout the organization?

 

If your intention is the above, you won't even need Power BI Pro licenses. The Pro license is mainly for the Power BI Service, all development through Power BI Desktop is free.

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zubair
New Member
10 years ago

Your assumptions is almost correct. The idea of simply just sharing the files are very tempting, but i would also needs these reports to the updated/refreshed freq. As my understanding goes, the free version or local files will not do that?

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    wonga
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    10 years ago

    zubair Right, auto or scheduled refreshes cannot be done on local PBIX files unless you are using DirectQuery (live connection) when doing the initial "Get Data" action.