Understanding usage models

Power BI provides considerable flexibility regarding how organizations deploy and adopt it. There are nearly limitless ways to organize and use such things as workspaces, apps, and dataflows, as well as how organizations choose to share and distribute content. We call the overall architecture and plan for how organizations deploy and utilize Power BI usage models. Usage models encapsulate how an organization adopts and utilizes the various components of Power BI in order to provide governance and processes around the use of Power BI.

The following sections explore some of the more common usage models for Power BI. However, keep in mind that there are nearly unlimited usage models as organizations can combine aspects of different usage models in different ways in order to facilitate the particular needs of their organization. The usage models covered here can be thought of as archetypes, or base usage scenarios, that demonstrate particular desired outcomes...