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Anonymous
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10 years ago
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Sharepoint Online Requirement

Good morning,   I'm a new user of PowerBI and am researching the potential uses of PowerBI for my organization.  I was under the impression that to share PowerBI dashboards with our end users we'd ...
  • djnww's avatar
    djnww
    10 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    Microsoft recently took me through their BI roadmap, and I had the exact same question as you did.

     

    Microsoft 's goal is to utilise SSRS as its BI platform as its goal is to provide the first and only true Enterprise BI Platform. SSRS is intended to be completely independant from Sharepoint. I have been told to wait for 2 months as a big change is approaching.

     

    SSRS will essentially integrate all of the following:

    1. PowerBI (Visualisation & Dashboards)

    2. SSAS (Cubes)

    3. Paginated Reports/Transactional reports

     

    The following image shows you SSRS integrating BI across all its products.

     

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Greg_Deckler
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10 years ago

Anonymous - SharePoint Online is no longer needed or even really supported as a front-end. (Sort of, you can "connect" an Excel or PBIX file sitting in SharePoint Online and have it automatically refreshed by the service and thus users could view it there). The new front-end is the Power BI Service and the easiest way to experience it is to go to https://www.powerbi.com and simply sign-up for a free account. 

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Anonymous
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10 years ago

Greg_Deckler - Thanks for the information.  That's what I was piecing together from the documentation so it's good to hear confirmation.