Power BI Embedded Benefits and Insights

Why use Power BI Embedded?

Key differentiators & advantages of Power BI Embedded

Maximize ROI: Deliver analytics to customers where they are — embed fully interactive reports and dashboards into business applications. Create new revenue streams with rapid scaling and lightning-fast performance without investing time and money on maintaining analytics.
Deliver Custom Analytics: Customize the analytics menu with user-friendly actions and provide analysis on the fly by enabling create/edit options for all. Match visuals with custom brand colors and turn on Q&A to answer queries instantly.
Deploy Easily: Free up developers to focus on the core application by delegating reporting and data visualization functionality to its Javascript SDKs, embedded APIs and wizards. Scale to meet demand and ensure the best customer experience through performance monitoring and automation.
Share Business Insights: Share reports in PDF, Powerpoint and PNG formats through automated emails at regular intervals. Export selected report pages in a pre-defined order, or share with applied filters in place.
Security: Mitigate risks with its zero-trust policy, block use of unproductive apps and protect business-sensitive information. Leverage the Azure Active Directory (AAD) to authenticate users through single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. Protect workloads in Azure, on-premises and in the cloud against malware and threats.
Multi-tenancy: Publish content from Desktop into workspaces, and add security groups, distribution lists and individuals while assigning roles and privileges. Or, leverage row-level security — publish a single report but expose only relevant data to each individual.
Capacity Planning: Plan ahead by figuring out how much user load the resources can handle. Create automated load tests through PowerShell, and choose which reports to test and the number of users to simulate.

Industry Expertise

The vendor provides analytics to clients in diverse industries across the world. These include telecommunications, government, manufacturing, health, media, entertainment, education, retail, marketing and more.

Power BI Embedded Reviews

Average customer reviews & user sentiment summary for Power BI Embedded:

26 reviews

86%

of users would recommend this product

Key Features

Data Connectivity: Pull data from a wide range of sources in the cloud and on-premises, including web APIs, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Dynamics 365, SQL, and JSON, text and Excel files, and more.
Data Visualizations: Create engaging visualizations — graphs, charts, maps and more — to track and present business data for analysis. Get business-critical insights in real time with dashboards and reports that auto-refresh from all data sources.
- Dynamic Binding: Bind a single report template to multiple datasets across workspaces, eliminating the need to maintain hundreds of report duplicates. Display different information from the same report by adding different data sets to the embed configuration.
- Bookmarks: Save custom visuals as personalized bookmarks and refer back to them whenever needed. Apply bookmarks at specific points in the workflow through a Javascript API. Add bookmarks to URLs and open reports with these already applied.
Azure Diagnostic Logging: Identify issues in the system by setting alerts on logs and metrics. Tracks the health and performance of Azure resources by collecting platform metrics and keeping activity and resource logs.
Personalization: Personalize the embeds as needed by adding Q&A and report tooltips.
- Embedding Q&A: Add Q&A visuals into an application and allow end-users to ask questions in natural language and view the results visually through charts or graphs. Leverages Office/Bing thesaurus to explain terms not mentioned in the data model.
- Report Tooltips: Create custom tooltips from pre-designed templates to personalize visuals used in reports. Link a specific field to the tooltip in the filters pane, or add it manually to the formatting pane for a particular visual.

Limitations

At the time of this review, these are the limitations according to user feedback:

While exporting a report to file through the Export API, both the file and its data set must reside on Premium or Embedded capacity.
Exported reports can’t exceed a file size of 250 MB.
R, PowerApps, Python, Visio and uncertified Power BI visuals aren’t supported for report export.
Full-screen mode isn’t available by default in an embedded report, though it can be enabled through JavaScript.
Its implementation and every subsequent embedding require the skills of a web developer.

Suite Support

Before reaching out to the vendor for support, go through the free resources online including FAQs, demos, documentation, samples, articles, community forums, blogs and webinars. The support portal and ticket system is only available for free to Pro and above subscribers, otherwise submitting support tickets can incur a fee.

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Training: Access self-guided learning and product documentation for free through the knowledge center, or attend boot camps and training on the tool. edX offers a free online data science course, with an optional professional certificate available for $199. The vendor’s consulting service partners offer workshops for a fee.

Tickets: Submit a support request after logging into the customer support portal.

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