Setting up a Demo of the Power BI Analysis Services Connector
Old Power BI = Self Service Cloud BI. Prior to this month, Power BI could be neatly summarized as Microsoft's self-service cloud BI offering. You could share online whatever data you could fit inside a single Excel workbook up to 250MB (which with columnar compression may be a couple GB of data). You could refresh daily against on prem sources using the Data Management Gateway. Your subject matter expert could share their Power Queries with the rest of the company enabling others to do self-service mashups. You could share your workbook with others via SharePoint Online granting them the ability to read all the data in the Excel workbook. You could even programmatically generate many clones of a workbook, each with a different subset of data, each shared with a different subset of users.
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