Hi,
We're new to Power BI, and when we got its non-free version we understood we could build a Dashboard with data from an Excel file, thinking that as it was a local excel file, the data would never leave our own servers, is this a correct assumption?
I have doubts now because as I'm reviewing the "guided learning" section, in the part of working with an Excel file it does ask if I want to upload it or import it...and both things sound the same to me, could somebody please explain the difference?
- is my data "going somewhere else other than my own server" when doing either one of these options? and if that is the case, is it going to the cloud?
- what if I need a dashboard with sensitive/confidential information? there's no way to keep it local? how could we do that?
The other part that made me concerned is that if we "Publish" the dashboard in order to share it, it'd be in the internet, so that sounds to me like anybody could access it, is this correct?
I'm sure most of you will understand our concern, we do want to exploit Power BI but we also want to know that our data is going to be accessed only by internal staff.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Brenda
