Power BI Back-end Services Explained
Microsoft offers customers several Power BI back-end platform options (shown here), including multiple cloud services and an on-premises product, called Power BI Report Server. They vary by support for content types, client tools, features, performance, scaling, security, and licensing.
Repository and Functions
The back-end hosting platforms act as repositories for the following Power BI components, referred to as artifacts:
- Reports
- Semantic data models (datasets)
- Dataflows (integration pipelines)
- Data marts (preview; external data hosted in Azure SQL Database).
The back-end platforms are also the workhorse for the following activities:
- Authenticating users, applications, and data connections
- Executing queries and controlling data refresh schedules
- Pulling data from various sources via connectors and gateways
- Processing data integration pipelines
- Rendering reports
- Publishing and distributing reports and dashboards
- Responding to real-time user interaction
- Interfacing with applications.
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