June 2025
Beginner to intermediate
446 pages
10h 46m
English
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Chapter 9. Power BI
If you worked with Microsoft Power BI before Microsoft Fabric was announced, you might be (rightly) wondering, What’s all the fuss about? Nothing has really changed from the UI perspective, and all of the features and functionalities are still available just as they were in the pre-Fabric era.
And you’re absolutely right! The Fabric user interface was built on top of the existing Power BI service UI. To be more precise, all the other experiences and workloads, such as Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, and Real-time Intelligence, which we covered in Chapters 5 to 8, were incorporated into the well-known Power BI experience. Once you navigate to Microsoft Fabric and choose Power BI from the home page, things will look quite familiar to anyone who has ever logged in to the Microsoft Power BI service.
Does this mean that Power BI remained the only unchanged island in the vast sea of innovations that Microsoft Fabric introduced? Absolutely not!
In this chapter, we’ll discuss how pre-Fabric Power BI workloads were integrated into the new ecosystem, as well as introduce brand new concepts and features that Microsoft Fabric brought into the Power BI game. We’ll also note some points to consider when planning your future analytics solutions and examine various scenarios for leveraging Power BI capabilities in the era of Microsoft Fabric.
Power BI Workloads in the Pre-Fabric Era
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