Hi all,
I'm slowly starting to get my head the BI offering from Microsoft and have a couple of quick questions that I could use confirmation on. This isn't my area of expertise, but I have been tasked at looking at solutions.
My questions are around Power BI in SharePoint 2013. I created a test account for Microsoft office 365 Power Bi, but that isn't a reflection of the SharePoint version I believe despite it still using SharePoint to store and display the reports.
For our solution we will be using SSAS to create OLAP cubes as the data source and to present most of the data via dashboard and interactive reports using PerformancePoint Service, but PPS doesn't seem to offer mapping solutions out of the box nor any of the nice visualisations that PowerView provides. I know that PowerView reports can be integrated into PPS as web parts, but can they synched up to interact with the other reports on the PPS? E.g. drilling down a level or changing a filter?
Lastly, when using the office 365 Power BI trial, we were very impressed with the Q&A feature and would be something that we would want to implement as our data is often looked at by journalists and people who may not be expect users at using or design reports and that was a great way we saw to allow them to interact with our data. In order to use that I had to upload my data and activate it on a SharePoint 2013 site in a Power Bi library. Is it possible to do this in SharePoint 2013 or is it only possible if you sign up to Office 365?
Thanks very much for your time and hope to hear back.
Dave