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L33
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9 years ago

PowerBI & Tableau together in one org.. Any examples?

Doing a Google search for "PowerBI Tableau", returns on the first page no less than 27 instances of the characters "vs". Does it have to be this way?   My company is currently looking to a hybrid a...
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Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
9 years ago

SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 also allows uploading PBIX files to it if you need to keep things on premises. That being said, I don't think that it will support Tableau files so you may have to use SharePoint or something similar.

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L33
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Thanks both for responses.

 

Our idea is that we'd like a "one-stop shop" experience for end users consuming reports, whether they be created in PowerBI, SSRS or Tableau. So we'll probably have a SharePoint site that we (the central BI team) will point people to. We want an in-browser experience for Tableau, PowerBI and SSRS reports (ie. we don't want people downloading TWB files to use in Tableau Reader, and - ideally - we don't want a page of links that send people off to PowerBI Online either).

 

It looks like there is a way to embed Tableau dashboards to a Sharepoint site (via a bit of workaround, and assuming you also have a Tableau Server). But is the only way to embed PowerBI reports/dashboards to Sharepoint to 'piggy-back' them on a SSRS 2016 report? From my internet searches, it looks like until this recent development, PowerBI required a bit of a workaround and for reports to be "published to the web" (ie. technically publically discoverable) - is that no longer the case?

 

(I have barely any experience with either Sharepoint or SSRS so any advice I'm very grateful for).