Hi all!
Situation: Large retail company with many subcompanies. We're building a BI solution covering all main processes (eg. finance, production, procurement, inventory etc.) Potential users > 1000. We are building a datawarehouse as the base. Question is were do we go.
I'll try to list the main question at this stage.
1. building data model. Tabular cube vs Power Pivot vs Power BI desktop
- Should we stick to cubes. If we do that all users have to have pro licence to use the reports, right?
- Should we mix?
- If working with Power Pivot we could export to both cube and PBI desktop.
- If using PBI desktop we're stuck in Power BI.
- We need row level security so I guess that points to cubes for at least those cases.
2. Visualization: Creating the reports in Excel, Power BI desktop or Powerbi.com
- Creating them on Powerbi.com seems bad in that we can't for example change data source or keep track of changes
- Creating them using PBI desktop seems better in that we can version control the pbix file.
- PBI desktop reports can use a cube as a data source or the internal data model but not a Power Pivot model, right?
The bigger question is, creating a enterprise solution, what is the proposed way of working.