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Joe_Sharman
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3 years ago
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Power Bi On Apple mac

Hi there, Im a new analyst at my company and have started to look at data visualisation tools for my company. Most of the employees at the company use Apple laptops. I know this means we can not d...
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  • TomMartens's avatar
    TomMartens
    3 years ago

    Hey Joe_Sharman ,

     

    Basically, all your questions can be answered with yes, but you need Power BI Desktop for report authoring.

    At this point in time, the data modeling capabilities coming with Power BI Service are not on par with Power BI Desktop the same is valid for report design Desktop. Next to that, you need to create the dataset using Power BI Desktop, with Power BI Desktop you can select MySQL as data source, that feed the dataset.

     

    I'm converted to a MBP M2 2 months ago, I love the machine for many reasons. I use Power BI Desktop in combination with Parallels Pro, becaues I want to assign more than 8GB of RAM to the virtual Windows Machine.

    Hopefully, this helps to make your decision.

    Regards,
    Tom

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Joe_Sharman
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Hi Tom, 

 

Thanks for your response!

So in practise I can do my data modelling using a virtual machanie to create and edit reports, which I can sahre with my colleagues who can interact with the reports on their apple machines using the online version of Power Bi. I ask as I don't want everyone at my company to downlaod a virtual machnie so if I was the only one that had to do this my issue could be resolved :). 
Seperatley, how can I share reports with users outside my company? I would like the users to be able to interact with reports i.e. change dates etc but I don't want them to edit them. 

Thanks again