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Power BI as a data source

Over 59 distinct cloud services are available to Power BI, such as Google Analytics and Dynamics 365. Most importantly for this project, the Power BI online service is a fully supported data source enabling report development in Power BI Desktop against published datasets. As shown in the following screenshot, the datasets contained in Power BI App Workspaces in which the user is a member are exposed as data sources:

Power BI service data connector in Power BI Desktop

Connecting to a dataset published to Power BI establishes a Live connection for the given report, just like connections to SQL Server Analysis Services. ...

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