May be this is stupid question.
I am using Sisense for the analytics. Back end is SQL Server. Now we are thinking to move to Power BI. When I search for Power BI I see different versions. 1) desktop power bi 2) azure power bi.
Does both are same ? I can search for tutorial on google but I want some perfect direction. I want the similar kind feature that's sisense have.
Thank you.
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This question is generic and may have multiple answers. I've been in Power BI world for a few years and curious to know the technical differences between MSBI & Power BI. Both belong to Microsoft products and why they have a couple of Business Intelligence in their branch.
Power BI Consists of:
Power BI Desktop
Power BI Service
Report Server
MSBI Consists of:
SSRS - SQL Server Reporting Service
SSIS - SQL Server Integration Service
SSAS - SQL Server Analytic Service
So as it shows, the only common part in Power BI and MSBI is the reporting services. However, Data manipulation and modeling is far more superior in Power BI compared to in SSRS. Also Power BI uses an SSAS model behind the picture for whatever modeling capacities it provides.
Microsoft Business Inteligence (MSBI) include many things like ,SQL Server ,SQl Server Integration service(SSIS), SSRS, and SSAS as well.
So role and responsibilities are totally different of MSBI and Power BI.
MSBI developer expertise in (Export Transport and Load) ETL development ,Data warehousing and reporting as well but can't aspect same with Power BI developer.
I had some conflicts with my teammates about if it is really the Power BI can read and explore Apache Kylin Cubes or it is just exploring the Data source,
I had some problems with saiku exactly in the Mondrian schema that's why I am using Power BI, I couldn't use Superset cause of the lack of time since i need to deliver the project in time.
I just want to do some data visualization from the cubes,
Is there any understandable documentation you guys can provide me?
I will really be grateful for any help!
There is no Cube API in Power BI. You could display Kylin defined tables in Power BI through ODBC driver. There are some commercial solutions for Kylin and Power BI. Check this: https://kyligence.io/resources/enable-interactive-big-data-analytics-of-power-bi/
This question probably has a simple answer that I can not find (I'm very new to Power BI). The scenario is that we have software that runs in the browser (ASP.NET MVC) that is hosted on a client's site on their infrastructure. In this scenario is it possible to distribute a Power BI dashboard that runs a DirectQuery on to Microsoft SQL Server?
Apologies if this is a dumb question. I am currently on chapter one of a book on Power BI and I don't want to proceed if it can't meet this requirement.
Short answer: Yes. Power BI Embedded provides you a set of APIs to embed Power BI reports/dashboards into your own applications.
Long answer: It depends. If you need a total self-hosted solution including Power BI, you'll need to go for Power BI Premium, which can be an order of magnitude more expensive than Power BI Embedded, making it an impractical solution to offer on top of your software.
maybe a clarification and a small correction, embedding of Power BI and Power BI Embedded both start at the same price level. Through Office you purchase a Premium capacity for Powerbi.com starting at a monthly commitment of $650 You can also use the $9.90 PRO license per user. PBIE is purchased through Azure with no commitment so you can start at $1 an hour ($750 a month)
Please start by exploring our developer center to find which solution is the best fit for your needs Power BI Developer Center
Hope this helps
Aviv
Have seen a few mentions on pulling Bloomberg pricing data into Power BI, with most referencing a REST API but I can't seem to find any good examples on how to implement. I have a Bloomberg license, but have been struggling on how to marry the two without pulling Bloomberg data into Excel and then referencing in Power BI. Anyone have any luck on this front?
I'd prefer to avoid the Excel route as I'd like to be able to choose dates, assets, etc in the Power BI report and then refresh dynamically rather than open Excel every time and then refresh the Power BI report.
Thanks in advance.
I'm sure there's a way to load data via R with the Rblpapi library. Might try going down this route. I don't have a license so I'm unable to test.
Documentation here:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html
You'll be glad to know that Bloomberg Connector is part of Power BI April release !
There does not currently seem to be an easy way of doing this. I have been exploring using C#. I found this tutorial which provides a lot of detail on connecting to the Bloomberg API using C#, and this tutorial on pushing data into Power BI using C#. There might be a way by connecting the concepts in both tutorials. If anyone has any better ideas I would love to hear them.
I am using Power BI Embedded. I have created a .pbix file containing a few tabs worth of visualizations. Each tab contains a TimeLine visualization so I can select timer periods along with several charts and maps.
This arrangement looks good in Power BI Desktop. When I publish the .pbix file to the Power BI website, each tab can be pinned to a dashboard. Pinning a dozen visualizations does not seem to make much sense and seems to suggest that the real idea behind it is to not have many visualizations on each tab and allow the user to pin the visuals they are really interested in. The Power BI presentations I've seen also seems to do this.
My report would end up with dozens of tabs which could get very unwieldy in Power BI Desktop. Is there a right way to go about this? Is there some guidance from Microsoft or a few examples I can look at? How does this affect Power BI Embedded?
Also posted to the Power BI Forums.
Honestly, I don't find multiple tabs to be that unwieldy. Of course, it boils down to personal preference/the preference of your audience. It sounds like you have things arranged nicely.
The Power BI Showcase has some good examples of aesthetically pleasing reports here.
About embedding: from my personal experience, tabs do not show up when embedding a PowerBI dashboard/report in a web application.