Experience How Webdashboard Makes Your Life Easier
Wow, that’s quite a statement to make. But this is genuinely one of the feedback points we often receive from our customers. In today’s data-driven world, sharing insights with colleagues, clients, and partners is essential for making well-informed decisions. Microsoft Power BI offers a powerful tool for creating interactive reports and dashboards. However, sharing those reports can often be a challenge.
What Issues Do You Face When Sharing Power BI Reports and Dashboards?
You’ve painstakingly put a lot of effort in creating a beautiful Power BI report filled with valuable insights. Now you want to share these insights with your team and stakeholders, but you encounter several frustrating obstacles:
License Issues: Not everyone in or outside your organization has a Power BI Pro license, which means they cannot access your reports in the Power BI service. This can lead to frustration and delays in decision-making processes. In general, understanding licensing models and which licenses to use when and for who is in itself already confusing. We will deep-dive into licensing and the comparison in another blog.
Security Concerns: Sharing reports via email or other public channels can pose a security risk, especially if the reports contain sensitive information. You want to ensure your data is secure and only accessible to authorized individuals.
Mobile Limitations: Power BI reports are not always optimized for viewing on mobile devices, making it difficult for users to stay updated with important insights while on the go.
These are just a few common problems you can find all over the internet if you search for them.
How Does Webdashboard Address These Concerns?
Let’s revisit the points mentioned above. You’ve created a beautiful Power BI report and want to share it externally. You’re going to do this using Webdashboard.
License Issues: With a Webdashboard license, you won’t encounter this problem. The Power BI license is included, so you don’t need to purchase and manage additional licenses. Only if you’re expecting to share with many users (200+) it will be more affordable to go for a Webdashboard Enterprise + your own capacity/licenses combination.
Security Concerns: Webdashboard is a closed portal that you can only access with login credentials. The portal admin determines who gets access and can easily manage this in an overview. You can also choose to implement Multi-factor Authentication. Further, Webdashboard supports RLS.
Mobile Limitations: Webdashboard has a handy app that allows you to easily log in and view your reports from anywhere. You see the same content on the app as you do on desktop Webdashboard. So it is recommended to create a mobile view for your reports, which will make it more user-friendly to view your insights on the go
These are primarily technical aspects we highlight, but Webdashboard also offers many benefits when it comes to collaboration.
The Path to Easily Sharing Power BI Reports and Dashboards with Webdashboard
Imagine you’ve created an impactful Power BI report full of valuable insights. You’re ready to share it with the world, but how do you go about it? Here are your next steps:
- Upload Your Report: You can either upload via Webdashboard itself, or upload from Power BI to Webdashboard. Once you start with Webdashboard, you will get one Power BI Pro (publish) account, which you can use to upload and publish. So you don’t need to have any additional licenses anymore.
- Style It to Your Liking: Make the report environment unique with your logo, colors, and branding. This way, you present your report in a professional manner that aligns with your brand identity.
- Share with the Right People: Easily invite those who need to see your report via email. Manage permissions and determine who can see what (even at the RLS level), using detailed security settings.
- Accessible to Everyone: Recipients don’t need to install special software or acquire licenses. They can open your report via a web browser or the app, no matter where they are in the world.
- Track and Analyze: See who has viewed your report and when. Gain valuable insights into your audience’s engagement.
- Collaborate and Improve: Use the online environment to discuss and collaborate on your reports. Leave feedback, ask questions, and work together on data-driven insights.
This is the ideal situation, creating even more value from what has been made. Safe, fast, well-managed, in your own branding, and one of the most important things: easy.
Optimizing Your Work Processes and Sustainable Collaboration
The title of this blog is quite a bold statement. Does Webdashboard really make your life a lot easier? Customers describe it as less hassle, speeding up the work process.
You don’t need to search for reports because the ones you are allowed to see can be easily found in Webdashboard. In fact, you can directly send a link to a report (including filter) to a user. With help of other clever features like ‘favorites’, ‘recent reports’, setting a different landing page for a user, and more, you can ensure your user is within two clicks at their report. You don’t need business intelligence knowledge to access these reports, making it easy to share them with stakeholders without inviting them into your own Microsoft tenant.
In this way, collaborations are not only better but also more sustainable. Our customers have integrated Webdashboard into their processes and see it as an upgrade to their current workflow.
There are many more neat capabilities in Webdashboard that make working with Power BI easier for you. Not just making your life easier, but also the lives of the people with whom you share.
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