We are a start-up software firm building a cloud-based application using SQL Server as the db. We're exploring possibly using Power BI as the business intelligence solution for our customer/clients.
I have a trial version of Power BI desktop installed and have connected to a local SQL Server database but can't seem to figure out how to connect to an off-premises database / data warehouse. Our current vision is to have our customer clients, using Power BI, connect to a central cloud-based database/data warehouse (with security controls/partitioned) for reports/dashboards/etc. I can't assume that the customer/clients have SQL Server.
Is there something I'm missing? Any suggestions on how to cost-effectively accomplish this with Power BI? Thanks.
