Working with Power BI service

Power BI service is a cloud business intelligence software that helps you see and understand your data. You can ingest Power BI metadata in Data Catalog and create a technical lineage.

The Power BI service integration in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud is not the same as the Power BI Report Server integration. If you want to ingest Power BI Report Server metadata in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud, please read the Power BI Report Server section in the Documentation Center.

If you want to ingest Power BI metadata in Data Catalog, you have to purchase the Power BI connector and lineage feature.

Note You can still integrate Power BI metadata via the Power BI harvester, but that integration method is deprecated.

Tip If you previously integrated Power BI metadata via the Power BI harvester, you can now migrate your existing Power BI assets to the new integration method.

Features

Collibra Data Lineage currently supports two means by which to integrate Power BI in Data Catalog. The following table shows the features specific to the two integration methods.

Feature	Integration via the Power BI harvester (deprecated)	Integration via the lineage harvester
Catalog ingestion
Technical lineage
Automatic stitching
Uses only one harvester
No Windows dependency
Uses new Power BI APIs
Workspace filtering for high-volume data
Mapping to target domains
Data flow support

Tip After we have successfully switched to the new Power BI APIs, we will have more opportunities to improve the integration. You can add your ideas for product enhancements and new features in the Collibra Integrations Ideation Portal.