Business user who just want to quickly locate and run their reports often complain that the Power BI Service home page is cluttered and confusing.
In this video, I'll cover 2 approaches to making it simpler and quicker for business users to access Power BI Reports.
I've had lots of feedback that the Power BI Service Home page is cluttered, confusing and just not a good user experience for day-to-day business users who want to run reports.
They are not interested in building their own reports they just want to quickly and easily get to the information they need so they can use it to make better decisions.
Power BI "Apps" are tools designed to package reports in a single location that a business user can navigate to and find all the information they need in one place. Apps are great however if you want to show the same report in multiple apps then this can be an issue in terms of ensuring that the same version of the report is published to each app each time the report is updated.
Often apps are created on a department-by-department basis. For example, there is an app for Maintenance, an app for Health, Safety and Environment, for Operations, Finance etc.
But what happens if you are a manager and you want to look across multiple departments? You don't want to have to navigate to 4 or 5 different apps. You want all of your reports in one place, that is quick to access and simple to navigate around.
In this video, we'll cover 2 approaches to make it quick and easy to set up apps that can pull reports from apps into a single location, without then needing to publish multiple versions of the report.
The first approach using apps, but using a feature that allows you to embed links into your app.
The second approach uses Matrix Scorecards as a landing page reporting hub that shows the key values, but also lets you quickly navigate to your tailored list of reports and apply a custom filter to each one!
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