I am evaluating the use of powerbi for a business use case. I am a bit stumped by the sharing options available.
My company provides energy monitoring services. We will like to develop a dashboard that shows energy usage metrics - made available to each client. The client has no editing rights - we are just using the dashboards as a reporting service. All the clients will be external to our domain, of course.
Our problem is how to share the dashboards - Our dashboards will be streaming realtime info so we need a pro account. Seems PowerBI requires each client to register for a Pro account to just access and read these dashboards? That won't work for us.
What are my options if I still want to use PowerBI. I am intruiged by DAX and all the flexibility that comes with using this tool.
What we know so far :
- Pushing the dashboard into excel does not retain all the charts and interactivity ( not sure about this one )
- Publishing the dashboard to a website ( secure website for each client ) still exposes the dashboard to the public - the url in this case is still public, in case anyone has access to it.
- Clients can't use the free PowerBI service - just to read the dashboard. ( if it was created using the Pro license)
Did I miss anything else thats possible?
