Self-service BI workspaces

As part of an organization’s effort to empower users and drive a data culture, some workspaces are often created for the purpose of enabling business users and their teams to create and manage their own content.

For example, although other workspaces and apps containing financial reporting could be wholly owned by the BI/IT team, a workspace could be created for certain members of the finance and accounting department, and a few authors could be assigned Power BI Pro licenses and some training and documentation on data sources.

Such a self-service BI workspace allows business users, versus the enterprise BI team, to create and share content. As per the Power BI deployment modes section of Chapter 1, Planning Power BI Projects, some organizations may choose to empower certain business users to create and manage the visualization layer (Self-Service Visualization).

This hybrid approach gives business users more flexibility to address...