Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is an interactive data visualization software product developed by Microsoft with a primary focus on business intelligence. It is part of the Microsoft Power Platform. Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Data may be input by reading directly from a database, a webpage, or structured files such as spreadsheets, CSV, XML, and JSON. In addition, Power BI supports paginated reports for RDL, RDS, and RSD files.

IBM Automatic Data Lineage currently scans:

Check out the guides below for more details on setting up this scanner.

Extraction and Analysis Phase Scenarios

Extraction Phase

For the extraction phase for Power BI, there is only one scenario.

  1. PowerBI extractor scenario — connects to each configured PowerBI server and extracts the configured projects and their objects

  2. PowerBI ingestion scenario - pulls inputs from git Manta Flow Agent Configuration for Extraction:Git Source or a remote agent filesystem location Manta Flow Agent Configuration for Extraction:Agent Source

Analysis Phase

For the analysis phase for Power BI Projects, there is only one scenario.

  1. Power BI Dataflow scenario — analyzes metadata from the provided Power BI Projects and saves it in your Automatic Data Lineage metadata repository.