15.1 Introduction to Power BI

All Power BI projects are located in the power_bi folder on the \\admin2\instres shared drive. This folder houses all of the active Power BI dashboards and associated projects including the Fact Book. It was attempted to keep each dashboard in its own directory and relatively self contained for the sake of hand-off of projects and project maintenance.

It is important to understand that Wake Forest has premium storage and has elected to tightly control management of workspaces in order to ensure that no protected data are leaked. As such, in order to create a workspace, the BI Team must be contacted to get a workspace. Dashboards are typically build using the desktop version of Power BI and are then pushed to the cloud workspace. Using the online