Friday, July 6, 2018

PowerBI Desktop vs PowerBI Services

Those who are new in the world of Microsoft's Business Intelligence tool; they are little bit confused Power BI Desktop vs Power BI Services

We will go through the below points to get some Idea.


Power BI Desktop vs Power BI Service


      1.Power BI Desktop is Offline or Desktop application.
      1.Power BI Service is Online or Cloud based service

      2.From Power BI Desktop we can Publish report to Power BI             services.
      2.Report created through Power BI services itself published                 or available online/cloud based.

      3.Can not share report directly to end user through Power BI           Desktop.
      3.From Power BI service you can share report directly to end           user.

      4.Dashboard feature not available in Desktop version.
      4.Can create Dashboard though Power BI service online.

      5.Can edit the Queries/Data to perform the operations like                 Merge,Split,..
      5.Can not perform operation on Data or queries.

      6.In Desktop version can not see the usage matrix details of             the reports.(Number of view and visitors to report)
      6.In Services can see the usage matrix details of the reports             in graphical and tabular format.(Number of view and                       visitors to report)

      7.Easily manage Data table relationship in Desktop.
      7.No option available to manage the relationship in Services.

      8.Can not manage user permission/access to whom we want to show the report.
      8.In service option available to manage the user permission.

      9.New measure, calculated column facility available to perform the operations on data.
      9.Can not add measure or column in services.

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