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jakeryan56
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8 years ago
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PowerBI Robots - Does Microsoft plan on doing something similar?

Recently Devscope release PBI Robots. I have played with the trial and am very impressed. However, before I go and spend over $1000 on this software, does Microsoft have something similar planned? I....
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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    8 years ago

    There are currently some similar features, Publish to Web, save as PowerPoint and you can subscribe to reports to get a screen shot sent when the data refreshese. Other than that, I am not currently aware of anything that would replicate that functionality. However, I would check the Ideas forum and see what is currently in progress or planned.

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kk0036
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8 years ago

Hi Jake,

 

I am in the same boat with our customers/my boss wanting pdf reports emailed. I recently discovered the power bi robots software. I was wondering if you would be willing to share some of your experience with that tool with me. I think that eventually, Microsoft will incorporate this kind of email capability, but as of right now it doesn't look like it is going to happen near term. 

 

Any comments or reactions to the PowerBi Robots software would be extremely helpful.

 

Thanks

jakeryan56's avatar
jakeryan56
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8 years ago
Hi there. It is great software and I honestly can’t imagine Microsoft releasing anything similar in the near future. It is pretty expensive so I don’t want to make the investment if Microsoft ends up doing something similar. You can use the free trial, it is fully functional but just has watermarks on the images.
  • kk0036's avatar
    kk0036
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    8 years ago

    Thanks for the help. I am also concerned about the cost and also about the security. I really would rather just use features within the Power Bi web space rather than giving access to yet another company to do it third party. I plan on doing a test, but I highly doubt that my company can go that route. 

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      8 years ago

      Hi friends,

       

      I try to play this tools , now it's work but I had a lot of problems Azure's permissions. In these days will try to check and if you like I will explain my testing.

      Also I sent question to customer services but i didn't have answer, mmm....


      Mik.

    • SA_NYC's avatar
      SA_NYC
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      8 years ago

      Check out my posts below about Power BI Robots - I'm a big fan (and I have zero connection to the company, I'm a regular paying customer). One thing I've realized is that I've been able to cut back on Power BI licenses with the Robots product, as the majority of my users don't want to log into PBI in any case, they really just want the reports delivered to them in email, which is what Robots allows and without PBI licenses. Hope this helps.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        8 years ago

        Hello,

        Does PowerBI Robot work with row level security? Or in case there is no row level security, can it send out filtered reports to different users based on a table or something? For example, let's say I have a table somewhere (Excel or PowerBI or database) that lists users and their respective regions. I have a powerBI report that includes all regions and can be filtered by regions. Now, I want an automatic Powerbi Robot job that will send user1 a filtered copy of the powerBI report that will only display the regions user1 has access to (based on the user-region table). Now, if the next day, the table gets updated giving user1 access to a different region and removing access from the old region, will powerBI Robot be able to automatically update it's job based on the table so that it only sends user1 report filtered on the new region?

        Thanks!