Embedding processes in Microsoft Power BI for interaction
Power BI is a great app for analyzing or interacting with live data, and Microsoft provides Visio Visual , which can be added from the Visualizations | Get More Visuals… dialog. This gives us the ability to add pages from Visio documents into Power BI reports. This means that we can overlay live statistics from a process that might be in use, for example, the count of the number of help desk calls at particular parts of the flow. We have been using the process steps for Data Visualizer so far in this chapter, so we will use the Excel table exported from Visio in the previous section.
We can display the data in Power BI to add text labels to each flowchart step or to color the shapes by value in Visio Visual.
You can download a free guide to using Visio and Power BI together from https://bvisual.net/resources/power-up-your-visio-diagrams/, and we will learn some key techniques in this section.
