Migrating from a Power BI Collection to Power BI Embedded is a gradual process that ensures an effective integration of the application. Here are a few steps in general ways to facilitate the transition:
Make the Power BI Environment Suitable: First, the Power BI reports, dashboards, and datasets must all be fully compatible with Power BI Embedded. The structure, connections, and data models require validation. Since Power BI Embedded requires a Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license for report authoring, this is something you would put in place to have all the necessary licensing.
Employ The Power BI REST API: The API is essential to programmatically manage reports, datasets, and dashboards in the context of being embedded. You can use the Embed API to automate embedding the reports directly into your application on a dynamic basis according to user roles or app contexts. This API is key to pushing necessary reports within your application while managing user permissions effectively.
Harness Power BI JavaScript API: This API will effectively embed Power BI content in your whole application. It will offer methods that enable you to embed reports, dashboards, and tiles directly into your web application. It will also provide controls regarding filtering, navigating with embedded visuals, and exporting options, which will improve the user experience in your embedded environment.
Security Aspects: The use of Row-Level Security (RLS) by the Power BI embedded program should be considered when migrating organization users. RLS rules that users should not see and view data according to their rights. These rules can be defined in the RLS context for the Power BI service and can be biologically applied.
Automating the Migration Process: There is no specialized migration mechanism for Power BI collections to transfer to Power BI Embedded. However, it can help automate the work through Power BI REST APIs and the JavaScript API for embedding. Thus, the work would be less manual and hence disturbed minimally.
Configuration Optimization: During the migration, optimize the performance of your embedded reports by considering caching setup, data model optimization, and query efficiency in the embedded environment.
For further insights, Microsoft's FAQ on Power BI Embedded provides answers to other queries regarding the embedding of Power BI into applications' best practices.
This makes it possible to achieve a very minimum disruption over the transfer of your Power BI content into your app, along with a complete control feature on data access, interactivity, and user experience.
