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Power BI

Power BI is a Microsoft business analytics service.  It can be run from a local on-premises server or from the cloud.  It provides interactive visualizations with self-service business intelligence capabilities, where end users can create reports and dashboards by themselves, without having to depend on information technology staff or, worse yet, database administrators to create these reports and dashboards.

Carleton as of 2018 uses the cloud-based offering, and reports/dashboards are accessed generally at http://app.powerbi.com/.  Grade reports (which were the first broad Power BI-based campus offering) are available here.

Power BI reports and dashboards are created either online via the web interface (link above) or, better yet, through Power BI Desktop and deployed to the cloud.

Gateways

Power BI reports, even though cloud hosted, can interact with data sources inside Carleton's network.  This is done via the On-premises Power BI Gateway service (named as such in the MS Windows services GUI; actual name , running (as of June 2018) clustered on two servers,

  • SQLSERVER1-2016.ads.carleton.edu (master)
  • DWSQL-2016.ads.carleton.edu (slave/secondary)

 

 

Platform

Grade reports are delivered using Microsoft Power BI, a cloud-based analytics platform available generally as part of Office 365.

Locations Available

Grade reports are available from any major browser on any major internet-connected platform (Windows, OS/X, Android, etc.).  There is also an IOS and Android Power BI app.

Where can I get help?

Submit requests for help to the help desk, and tag the requests as data warehouse requests.

Note that if a faculty member has trouble getting grade reports, the problem may be

  • Lack of internet connectivity
  • Current non-Faculty status (i.e., not included in AD Faculty group)
  • No grades available (e.g., new faculty member)
  • Unable to authenticate using Carleton's SAML provider (same issues as other logins - CHECK THIS FIRST)
  • Not licensed for Power BI (Helpdesk can't make this determination; assign to Richard Goerwitz or Matthew Lauterbach; or go to Sande Nissen or Dave Flynn)
  • /wiki/spaces/itskb/pages/26119351 is down on /wiki/spaces/itskb/pages/26139125 (Helpdesk can't make this determination; assign to Richard Goerwitz or Matthew Lauterbach; or go to Dave Flynn)
  • Gateway to data warehouse on /wiki/spaces/itskb/pages/26133288 is down (Helpdesk can't make this determination; assign to Richard Goerwitz or Matthew Lauterbach; or go to Dave Flynn)

Richard Goerwitz
Created:  2017-04-25 

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