Pro Microsoft Power BI Administration : Creating a Consistent, Compliant, and Secure Corporate Platform for Business Intelligence / by Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asgeir Gunnarsson, author.

Johnson, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft software.

Microsoft .NET Framework.

Microsoft.

Local Subjects:

Microsoft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXI, 291 p. 115 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2020.

Summary:

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 monitoringtasks, freeing up administrators to provide greater value to the organization through better user training and awareness initiatives. You will: 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 .

Contents:

Part I. Governance

1. Introduction to Governance and Governance Strategies

2. Power BI Licensing

3. Collaboration

4. Laws and Policies

5. Application Lifecycle Management

6. Training. -7. Documentation.-.-Part II. Administration

8. Introduction to Power BI Administration

9. Managing the Tenant

10. Administering Power BI Capacities

11. Workspace Administration

12. Managing Users and Security

13. Datasets & Dataflows

14. On-premises Data Gateway

15. Power BI Administration Tools

16. Monitoring.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-4842-6567-X