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Why Power BI Desktop for On Premises Data
There are only some sources which you can connect to directly from the Power BI Service which is shown below. The rest you will have to do as the others have suggested.
Some of the sources below will require a gateway for SSAS Tabuar, whilst others you can connect to directly.
Anonymous Yeah I understand Gateway is just a pass through device which will compress and enyrpt data from data source to Power BI service.
But my only confusion is:
1) I have installled gateway and configured it on machine.
2) I have configured gateway in power BI service and define data source.
Now Power Bi service is already having data source and gateway configuration. Isn't it should have the capability of accessing the data from data source directly? If I don't need to add columns or measures.
Using Power BI desktop just for publishing data seems to me an extra step for getting data on Power BI service.
I am not able to understand why Power BI Desktop comes into picture for this case?
There are only some sources which you can connect to directly from the Power BI Service which is shown below. The rest you will have to do as the others have suggested.
Some of the sources below will require a gateway for SSAS Tabuar, whilst others you can connect to directly.
GilbertQ Thanks that cleared my confusion.