White papers for Power BI
White papers allow you to explore Power BI topics at a deeper level. Here you can find a list of available white papers for Power BI.
| White paper | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Power BI and Dataflows | This white paper describes dataflows in technical detail, and describes the capabilities and initiatives behind dataflow features and functionality. | November 2018 |
| Power BI Premium Planning and Deployment | The content of this white paper has been incorporated into general guidance. See the link for guidance and best practices for planning and deploying Premium capacity for well-defined workloads. | March 2019 |
| Capacity planning guidance for Power BI Report Server | This paper aims to offer guidance on capacity planning for Power BI Report Server by sharing results of numerous load test executions of various workloads against a report server. | March 2018 |
| Security | Provides a detailed explanation of security within Power BI. | March 2019 |
| Advanced Analytics with Power BI | Describes the advanced analytics capabilities of Power BI, including predictive analytics, custom visualizations, R integration, and data analysis expressions. | February 2017 |
| Bidirectional filtering | Explains bidirectional cross-filtering in Power BI Desktop (the white paper also covers SQL Server Analysis Services 2016, both have the same behavior). | July 2018 |
| DirectQuery in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services | For SQL Server 2016, DirectQuery was redesigned for dramatically improved speed and performance, however, it is also now more complex to understand and implement. | January 2017 |
| Power BI and SAP BW | This document describes how SAP customers can benefit from connecting Power BI to their existing SAP Business Warehouse (BW) systems. Updated in November 2019. | November 2019 |
| Securing the Tabular BI Semantic Model | This paper introduces the security model for tabular BI semantic and Power BI. You will learn how to create roles, implement dynamic security, configure impersonation settings, manage roles, and choose a method for connecting to models that works in your network security context. | April 2016 |
| Power BI and GDPR | This link takes you to the list of white papers on the Service Trust Portal, including the Microsoft Power BI GDPR white paper. | April 2018 |
| Power BI migration | This link takes you to an article that describes how to migrate from other business intelligence tools to Power BI. | September 2020 |
Note
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