Power BI - Dashboard Usage

Power BI is a Microsft business analytics tool to analyze data and share insights to your application, it provides a different view for business and CxO users with their most important key information at one place, updated in real-time and available in all other devices. 

There are two version of Power BI usage:
1. Desktop version Power BI
2. Web Version  Power BI Online

Both of them have their capabilities based on the platform additionally, the desktop contains a whole suite of tools to create models, to Build models and create visuals and Web would also provide to create visuals and Sharing options.

Power BI - Desktop:

We have used Power BI desktop version to implement Dashboard for the one of our Web Application. It is easy and to built and publish to your app based on your customized view.

There are so many data source provide by Power BI - for more detail of supported source are here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-data-sources

Configuration Steps with Data Source as SQL Database:

Installed and open Power BI Desktop - with an authorized credential.

Select the data source that you needs to show on the dashboard for a web application.

Import the Visual based on your requirement and drag into the main panel and select the dataset.

below is the sample configured visual dashboard with sample dataset.

After completion of visual and setting up data set - Publish the Dashboard for live usage and it would be ready to integrate for your web application.

To keep dashboard and report up-to-date with your on-premises data source - There is a gateway to set up for keep source as refreshing on the certain scheduling interval.

Power BI - Benefits:

1. Any time any location and any device access to the dashboard.
2. Ability to fetch progress of current Task, Client, and resources progress.
3. Ability to Share – User can share with anyone from anywhere in the world.
4. Increased visibility and getting a more business plan without having to look for manual effort.

I hope above information will help you guys to set up Power BI basics and for more information please review Microsoft Power BI reference site.