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aschattopadhyay
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10 years ago
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Power BI Life cycle Management

Hi All:   I am pretty new to Power BI and I have been assigned the responsibility of setting up some governance around Power BI in our organisation. We have already delivered some POC with reports,...
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    jagatho
    10 years ago

    This blog entry describes a way to achieve a DEV, TEST and PROD environment in power bi as well: http://angryanalyticsblog.azurewebsites.net/index.php/2016/04/17/power-bi-content-workflow/

     

    So in a corporate Power BI environment, I currently think you basically have the following options: Let you end users access reports and dashboards through content packs or throught a PROD group workspace (with privacy set to members can only view Power BI content).

     

    With content packs you can include just the content that fits your user profile, but if they for example need access to a lot of reports from multiple business areas (ie. TEST workspaces) it gets messy in their personal workspace, since the separation is not visible in their personal worspace. Another difference is that with content packs, the end user can create a copy of the reports and modify it.

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ankitpatira
Community Champion
10 years ago

aschattopadhyay On top of what konstantinos said, you should consider using power bi templates and query parameters features. They were introduced in recent power bi desktop update and are meant to provide control to users to manage power bi reports within their organisation.