Power BI Desktop - Is it safe to create sensitive reports On Premise and not publish them?

[Anonymous]

Hello, 

I know it might sound stupid but...

We have to handle some sensitive data and PBI would help save time, having an on-cloud platform I was wondering if I should be concerned about working with this data in Power BI Desktop - On-Premise. 

Is there a setting or an article that can tell me that none of my data will go into the cloud and if I can toggle Publishing Off to avoid human errors? 

Thank you very much!

[v-janeyg-msft]

Hi, @Anonymous 

If you don't publish it, then the report created in the desktop is placed locally. It will not automatically connect to the cloud service. If I don’t understand what you mean, please explain.

Best Regards

Janey Guo

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