Power BI Service Fundamentals

Dashboard

• Dashboard is a single page view of the overall story through visualizations. For detailed, summary user can visit the related reports.
• To access it through Power BI Service, you need to have a business email (not Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)
• You need to publish a report to be available through Power BI Service.

Tiles

A dashboard consists of several tiles which is actually a chart brought by a report. You can  pin a visual or an entire report to a Dashboard.

Reports vs Dashboards

Reports

• Data source can be only a single dataset per report.
• One or more pages.
• Develop through Power BI Desktop, investigate through Power BI Service.

Dashboards

• Data source can be one or more reports (which consist of several semantic models)
• Only one (big) page.
• Not available through Power BI Desktop, only through Power BI Service.