Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions

Power BI’s intuitive, low-code graphical interfaces enable users with limited technical experience to quickly generate visually compelling content. In many cases, such as with small or aggregated source data and minimal security and analytical requirements, these lightweight, sub-optimally designed solutions can prove to be sufficient even with only Power BI Pro licenses. However, meeting the more demanding requirements of larger, more complex solutions entails additional tools, design techniques, and in some cases, resources such as Power BI Premium Per User or Fabric capacity.

For larger Power BI projects—particularly when the options of Power BI Premium and Analysis Services are not available—it becomes important to identify opportunities to improve report query performance and to more efficiently use system resources to store and refresh the semantic model.

Additionally, the data import process can...