January 2020
Beginner to intermediate
544 pages
11h 42m
English
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Chapter 3
Power BI Architecture
In This Chapter
• The Power BI Architecture
• Power BI Desktop Optimizations
• Power BI Updates
• Microsoft On-Premises Data Gateway
In Chapter 1, we discussed the fact that Power BI is not a single tool but a set of tools. In that chapter, we also touched briefly on the software and services where these Power BI tools reside. In this chapter, we will take a close look at each of the various applications and websites that make up the Power BI architecture.
The Power BI Architecture
As noted previously, the capabilities that are now brought together under the name Power BI have shown up in a number of different places as parts of different tools and with different names. Microsoft rearranged the various ...