Power Bi Report Server - Report Creation via Web Portal - Problem

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

Does, Web Portal for Power BI Report Server allows the creation/edition/Self-Services BI Reports ? Any alternative, since we have requirement in which we have to allow the users to create/self-service the BI reports/dashboards?

Important: 

The problem is that these users cannot use the Power Bi Desktop on their local machine within the Client Tier.

I have a 3 tier (subnet architecture) where in the request from Client Tier to App Tier or Client to Data Tier is not allowed. 

Thanks,

[d_gosbell · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Does, Web Portal for Power BI Report Server allows the creation/edition/Self-Services BI Reports ?

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No it does not. All report creation is done through the Power BI Desktop or Report Builder client applications.

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@Anonymous wrote:

I have a 3 tier (subnet architecture) where in the request from Client Tier to App Tier or Client to Data Tier is not allowed. 

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In a typical 3 tier architecture it's requests from the client tier to the data tier which are blocked and I think this is generally a good idea. You typically don't want lots of clients directly accessing application databases.

The way I recommed solving this is by creating a data warehouse. The arguement then becomes which network tier should the data warehouse go in. A lot of security people want to put it in the data tier since it uses database technology. But I believe it is an application in it's own right since it does not generate data itself, it only pulls data from the  databases in the data tier and it's whole purpose is to provide data access to business users in the client tier so that they can do data analysis.