Hi All,
Until recently, Power BI has been seen as BI tool at the department or small team level in which case sharing and deployment is not a big problem.
In the last couple of years ,we see more on Enterprise level rollout. I am sure there are still lessons being learnt and best practice is being established .
I wonder if anyone has done an Enterprise level roll out and how you managed Environments , Workspaces and EndUser App.
We have multiple departments wanting to produce reports and published in their own container such as Workspace and App and at the same time have different environments such as Dev, UAT and Live. This would mean for each units we would have three minimum workspaces and App. The fact that workspace and app are one-to-one and cannot create additional app on top of the workspace our end user security model is also affected.
For example, Marketing team will have Marketing - Dev, Marketing - UAT and Marketing - Live workspaces, we control what reports and dashboards are included in the EndUser App and who has access to it. Because, the containers we create all down to who are the end user at the app level, If the report is used by specific group with in Marketing for example Marketing Director then we would have to create – Marketing Director – Dev, Marketing Director- UAT and Marketing Director- Live and publish app with permission set to only Directors. This model of development creates unnecessary overheads and artifacts in my opinion.
Basically my question is- does the above model make sense and is there any other method you have used on the Enterprise level to manage Environments and Deployments roll-out of Power BI.
By the way I am aware of the whitepapers on this topic , I wonder what is your approach to the deployment.
Thanks
