Summary

This chapter introduced three important types of objects in the Power BI service: dashboards, apps, and scorecards.

Dashboards are a powerful feature that allows end users to bring together all of the most important information from multiple reports, datasets, other dashboards, Q&A, and other sources into a single-page canvas consisting of tiles. These tiles can be adjusted on the canvas and allow for the creation of data alerts to immediately inform users when key metric thresholds are met.

Apps, on the other hand, allow multiple dashboards and reports to be bundled together as an independent application and published to users. These apps provide similar features and functionality to the full Power BI service.

Scorecards allow users to track and share goals. These goals can be dynamically driven by data and rules to automatically track progress.

In addition to understanding dashboards, apps, and scorecards, we have also taken an in-depth look at security within...