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dombarg's avatar
dombarg
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8 years ago

BI report service on local server

hello my friends. I'm working on a dashboard for a govermental organization in which information security is very critical. indeed,they won't their information be published on BI service on internet...
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pragyamishra
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8 years ago

Hi dombarg,

 

The Power BI Report server is basically SSRS behind the scenes. 

 

I have myself installed Power BI report server because of the security concerns of my customer using SQL software assurance, but I must say it has a lot of limitations, like you cannot create dashboards or app workspaces , cannot implement row level security at the report server level (possible to do at the Database level).

 

But yes, it keeps my data on premises which is very important for my client. You can create Power BI reports, paginated reports, KPIs etc, all with ease. You can use it if you are not looking to create dashboards and all. (For that you need to use the web service.) Please  let me know if you need more info.

 

Thanks,

Pragya

 

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shaunwilks
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7 years ago

 

Do you know whether or not the PowerBi API can access reports that are hosted in a local on Premise Report Server as opposed to the PowerBI cloud Service/Portal ?

 

We have a working integration to embedded PBI Service content within our application.

But like the poster of this thread we have a handful of customers that do not wish to publish any data to the cloud.

 

So does the PBI API allow content to be accessed from local PowerBI Report Servers ?