Are PowerBI (or Fabric)-Domains related to AZURE-Domains ?

[ManfredHoffman]

Hello there,
I am still new to PowerBI, and from what I read so far it seems to me, that PowerBI (or apparently now rather Fabric)-Domains are not really connected to the Domain(s) in our AZURE-Tenant.

So I would rather look at them as GROUPS (with a feature of SubGroups) to organize our BI-content in different workspaces for different Departments.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Looking forward to your answers,
Manfred.

P.S.:

If those PowerBI/Fabric-Domains are really unrelated, then I can hardly understand why Microsoft decided to call them Domains, which is a term that has been around MS-Networks since a very long time and with a slightly different meaning.
Something like Department would have been much clearer to me 😉

[ibarrau · Accepted solution]

Hi. I don't think it's the same. The Fabric Domains are a way to keep your developments in an organized way that can help from a distribution or governance perspective. Microsoft defines them as "a way of logically grouping together all the data in an organization that is relevant to a particular area or field". Sometimes microsoft use similar names. The thing here is that "Domains" in data industry is something that does exists at a data governance perspective. So my guess is that they kept that name.

I hope that helps