Presenting Power BI extensibility
You learned a lot about the purpose of Power BI, its architecture, ALM, and security in the previous chapters of this book. Power BI offers a broad range of standard capabilities for building interactive reports and dashboards.
In case you need to extend the standard product’s capabilities, Power BI offers the following extensibility options:
- Build custom visuals: Power BI offers a number of default visuals, and another broad selection of visuals is available from AppSource. If a specific visual is not available, there is a possibility for custom development.
- Manage Power BI with code: The Power BI API offers certain management possibilities, such as embedding Power BI content into various types of applications or pushing data into Power BI datasets.
- Build custom Power BI data connectors: Power BI offers the possibility to build custom connectors to connect to data sources not available in the standard Power BI service...
