Integrating SSRS and Excel
Power BI Desktop is the primary report authoring tool for content published to the Power BI service as well as for Power BI report visuals embedded in custom applications. However, for many organizations a significant portion of existing or legacy reporting workloads built with SSRS and Excel must be maintained. In many cases, existing SSRS and Excel reports can be converted to modern Power BI reports and dashboards but Power BI is not intended as a full replacement for all the features and use cases for these other tools. In addition to supporting paginated reports (aka SSRS reports) via Power BI Premium and data refresh of Excel reports built against Power BI datasets, the Power BI service offers further methods of integrating content from Excel and SSRS into Power BI. Additionally, given the common database engine and DAX language of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and Analysis Services, BI teams can take full control of reports rendered in SSRS and...