Pro Power BI Architecture: Sharing, Security, and Deployment Options for Microsoft Power BI Solutions

by Reza Rad

Architect and deploy a Power BI solution. This book will help you understand the many available options and choose the best combination for hosting, developing, sharing, and deploying a Power BI solution within your organization.
Pro Power BI Architecture provides detailed examples and explains the different methods available for sharing and securing Power BI content so that only intended recipients can see it. Commonly encountered problems you will learn to handle include content unexpectedly changing while users are in the process of creating reports and building analysis, methods of sharing analyses that don't cover all the requirements of your business or organization, and inconsistent security models.
The knowledge provided in this book will allow you to choose an architecture and deployment model that suits the needs of your organization, ensuring that you do not spend your time maintaining your solution but on using it for its intended purpose and gaining business value from mining and analyzing your organization's data.
What You'll Learn
Architect and administer enterprise-level Power BI solutions


Choose the right sharing method for your Power BI solution


Create and manage environments for development, testing, and production


Implement row level security in multiple ways to secure your data


Save money by choosing the right licensing plan


Select a suitable connection type--Live Connection, DirectQuery, or Scheduled Refresh--for your use case


Set up a Power BI gateway to bridge between on-premises data sources and the Power BI cloud service


Who This Book Is For
Data analysts, developers, architects, and managers who want to leverage Power BI for their reporting solution

574 pages, Paperback

Published November 20, 2018

Reviews

[Ryan Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not too detailed, which was a good thing for me and what I was looking for, but would have frustrated me if I needed more. Lots of chapters repeat the same content (sometimes word-for-word), which produces strange feelings of Deja vu. I think the cure for this would be better organization of the content.

[Dat Trieu · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book gives the readers the overview of all things related to PowerBI. It helps the one who is already familiar with PowerBI to fill his/her gap.

There are some chapters that are almost dupplicate.

[numbworks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, it makes you understand things that were totally unclear in many other books about the same topic, like: different source types, PowerBi versions, possibilities and licensings.

[Will Bidstrup · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, quick, clear, simple.