Pro Microsoft Power BI Administration: Creating a Consistent, Compliant, and Secure Corporate Platform for Business Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Manage Power BI within organizations. This book helps you systematize administration as Microsoft shifts Power BI from a self-service tool to an enterprise tool. You will learn best practices for many Power BI administrator tasks. And you will know how to manage artifacts such as reports, users, work spaces, apps, and gateways. The book also provides experience-based guidance on governance, licensing, and managing capacities.

Good management includes policies and procedures that can be applied consistently and even automatically across a broad user base. This book provides a strategic road map for the creation and implementation of policies and procedures that support Power BI best practices in enterprises. Effective governance depends not only on good policies, but also on the active and timely monitoring of adherence to those policies. This book helps you evaluate the tools to automate and simplify the most common administrative and monitoring tasks, freeing up administrators to provide greater value to the organization through better user training and awareness initiatives.

What You Will Learn

• Recognize the roles and responsibilities of the Power BI administrator
• Manage users and their work spaces
• Know when to consider using Power BI Premium
• Govern your Power BI implementation and manage Power BI tenants
• Create an effective security strategy for Power BI in the enterprise
• Collaborate and share consistent views of the data across all users
• Follow a life cycle management strategy for rollout of dashboards and reports
• Create internal training resources backed up by accurate documentation
• Monitor Power BI to better understand risks and compliance manage costs, and track implementation

Who This Book Is For
IT professionals tasked with maintaining their corporate Power BI environments, Power BI administrators and power users interested in rolling out Power BI more widely in their organizations, and IT governance professionals tasked with ensuring adherence to policies and regulations

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Governance and Governance Strategies (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 3-25
Power BI Licensing (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 27-33
Collaboration (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 35-49
Laws and Policies (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 51-61
Application Lifecycle Management (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 63-78
Training (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 79-87
Documentation (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 89-103
Front Matter ....Pages 105-105
Introduction to Power BI Administration (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 107-114
Managing the Tenant (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 115-134
Administering Power BI Capacities (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 135-152
Workspace Administration (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 153-166
Managing users and security (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 167-176
Datasets and Dataflows (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 177-204
On-Premises Data Gateway (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 205-244
Power BI Administration Tools (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 245-264
Monitoring (Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson)....Pages 265-284
Back Matter ....Pages 285-291

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Microsoft and .NET