The question is how to encourage innovation without fostering chaos and support calls with hundreds of uncurated reports being shared from a large number of departmental or personal folders or, in the case of Power BI, workgroups ? Our experience with over 1000 active Spotfire uses has taught us that some level of governance and oversight is important to long term sustainability.
Does anyone know if there is a way in Power BI or Office 365 to limit the creation of work groups and content packs to designated individuals?
We would like to identify BI champions in the business who would be responsible for ensuring that security was appropriately assigned and that report certification/ownership/support was in place for Workgroups and content packs. We believe that if we can manage the creation of workgroups and content packs we could potentially align our work group and content pack security with defined data families so that access to the work groups, content packs, and underlying datamarts (for direct query) would be driven by the same set of AD security groups. The problem appears to be that anyone can create a workgroup or content pack and invite whomever they want to access it.
I've looked at the Power BI admin tenant settings, did not see options to limit creation of Workspaces and content packs in general to a specific group. Is there perhaps an option in Office 365 that would accomplish this?
We would also like to limit, or at least monitor, the use of personal gateways if possible.
Thanks, Mike