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Advocate IIPowerBI Robots - Does Microsoft plan on doing something similar?
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.
Power BI Robots is NOT associated with Microsoft. If you subscribe and allow them to connect with your Power BI Organization Portal, it means you are allowing them to take all confidential data/information from your dashboards and reports.
I won't prefer to make a connection from PBI Robots to PBI server or cloud services.
Please feel free to add.
Thanks.
Hi, Shubaham.
The only information collected on the PowerBI Robots web application is the user's email when a new account is created. That email is used to identify the user and send him or her notifications regarding PowerBI Robots such as updates or policy changes. The PowerBI Robots agent doesn't collect any personal information. All information used on the PowerBI Robots agent is stored locally, on the user's infrastructure.
The images and PDFs are always generated locally on the computer running the agent. There is an option to generate slideshow visualizations and, in this case, the generated images are uploaded to an Azure Blob Storage owned by DevScope, although we can make available a feature to upload to your own Azure Blob Storage. If you generate PDFs or your target is filesystem, the generated content is stored on the local storage or where you specify it.
There are two points in time when PowerBI Robots asks you for your Power BI credentials: when configuring the Agent and when creating the playlist. It only asks for credentials because the only way we to display and generate images form Power BI is to use the powerBI SDK and we need to provide Power BI with a security token to access its data. This security token is returned by the PowerBI SDK and is always stored as a session cookie locally with an expiration date and according to OAUTH protocol. Your browser will use this token/cookie stored locally when you are creating the playlist, and the agent running locally will use this cookie when rendering the images.
Hope that helps.
Hi DevScope, Thanks for sharing the details. It seems good if I download the agent in my local but what about if I go thru Web.
Like in attached screenshot, I can create a subscription directly on Web and it is asking for the Permissions to access my all Workgroups/Dashboards/Reports/Datasets etc.
What about the data confidentiality here.
Thanks,
Shubham
PowerBI Robots requires you to use both the desktop and the web agent. The latter is used for playlist configuration while the former is where you set everything up and make it run directly from your computer.
PowerBI Robots needs all those permissions because that's what you're going to select to send though it, via email, to a SharePoint library or file sytem. The authentication token generated by accepting those permissions in the web agent is only stored in your browser and never in our servers so your confidentiallity is 100% guaranteed.