Power BI on Premises and Pyramid Analytics

Power BI is a great tool and more than a few BI managers have told me that this tool has changed the way that they think about their BI environment. Unfortunately some of those managers also admit that they can't use it because their data cannot leave their network. I know that there is a whole conversation that we need to have about security, but for now, let's leave that aside and respect the customer's need to publish Power BI on premises.

My customers are delighted to that there is a solution coming from Microsoft in SQL Server Reporting Services. The May announcements from Pyramid Analytics and Microsoft provided much hoped for news! The twist is that this current solution has been created by another reporting platform and that causes many questions. To the customer there are two systems already: Microsoft SQL Server reporting stack SSRS and Power BI, with the on premises solution adding the third: Pyramid Analytics.

The information below may help you to decide whether Pyramid Analytic's BI Office is the right choice to get Power BI deployed inside your network.

Kudos must go out to Pyramid Analytics for building a great solution that really solves a problem for many customers!

Images from the Pyramid Analytics video: Best-in-Class On-Premise Business Intelligence for Power BI from Pyramid Analytics

Conceptual slide, describing context for combing the systems.

Image of a Pyramid BI Office Storyboard with a slicer affecting all visualizations.

This video posted by Pyramid Analytics shows the integration, not only to securely host the Power BI solution, but to integrate Power BI visualizations in to a Pyramid Storyboard (link).

This video is a one hour interview of Jen Underwood, Impact Analytics and Peter Sprague, VP Product Marketing , Pyramid Analytics discussing this very topic and reviewing the capabilities of Pyramid's BI Office (link).

Announcement in the May update feature summary (link).