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Power BI Personal Data Gateway architecture
Alay You know, this kind of "fits" with my overall impression of the two Power BI services. I have been scratching my head about it for a long time and your post triggered a thought that I think explains it. The original Power BI for O365 was geared toward MS's typical customer, the enterprise, and thus it had enterprise features. But, trying to break into enterprise BI with an almost purely cloud based service is really hard. I think the new approach is targeted to individuals and get individuals and departments hooked on it, sort of the "shadow IT" that has always existed with Excel. A lot easier to break into that market.
Eh, maybe not...
My understanding is that the personal gateway is not the final sate. I think it is safe to assume that a lot more enterprise grade gateway functionality is coming.
So, the only gateway available for v2 is the personal gateway and each user that creates a dataset that requires a gateway for local files / supported connections must EACH install a personal gateway?
We are using O365 Enterprise and started testing with the original PowerBI and installed a gateway on a server which the admins can see/manage and any dataset from any user could use, but that does not appear possible (currently) in v2 - is that correct?
that's correct, the data management gateway works for Power BI in Office 365, the only way to refresh data in PowerBI.com is to use the Personal gateway. I would expect a more robust gateway solution to be available soon.
As companies move more and more of their workloads in Azure a robust integration of data flow between on premise and the cloud becomes more and more important and there is no questions that Microsoft realizes that.
