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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

By : Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

By: Devin Knight, Brian Knight, Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference Guide gets you started with business intelligence by showing you how to install the Power BI toolset, design effective data models, and build basic dashboards and visualizations that make your data come to life. In this Learning Path, you will learn to create powerful interactive reports by visualizing your data and learn visualization styles, tips and tricks to bring your data to life. You will be able to administer your organization's Power BI environment to create and share dashboards. You will also be able to streamline deployment by implementing security and regular data refreshes. Next, you will delve deeper into the nuances of Power BI and handling projects. You will get acquainted with planning a Power BI project, development, and distribution of content, and deployment. You will learn to connect and extract data from various sources to create robust datasets, reports, and dashboards. Additionally, you will learn how to format reports and apply custom visuals, animation and analytics to further refine your data. By the end of this Learning Path, you will learn to implement the various Power BI tools such as on-premises gateway together along with staging and securely distributing content via apps. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide by Devin Knight et al. • Mastering Microsoft Power BI by Brett Powell
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Custom application embedding


In addition to SharePoint Online embedding, the Power BI API can be leveraged to embed reports, dashboards, and individual dashboard tiles into any custom application. With the Power BI Premium capacity provisioned, content developed in the Power BI service can be embedded in new or existing applications for an organization so that Power BI Free users are able to view this content. Depending on the Power BI Premium SKU purchased, an organization can exclusively embed Power BI content in their application(s) or use embedding along with the Power BI service portal for content consumption. 

Two kinds of Power BI Premium SKUs are available in the Office 365 portal that support embedding: P SKUs and EM SKUs. The EM SKUs are exclusive to custom applications and other software as a service (SaaS) offerings, such as SharePoint Online and teams. Power BI Free users are able to view embedded Power BI content in these applications but cannot view content in the Power BI...