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Simpson Associates Power BI Portal

Deliver interactive Power BI reporting to unlimited users both internally and to your external customers.

What is the Simpson Associates Power BI Portal?

Microsoft Power BI is undoubtedly a great tool for visualising and analysing your data within your organisation. However, when it comes to sharing reports externally, the Power BI Service isn’t quite as flexible as you would probably like it to be. 

The Power BI Portal by Simpson Associates addresses this need by allowing you to share your Power BI reports both internally and externally. The Power Portal has a customisable and streamlined process for managing users, report access, data security and permissions.

Benefits of using the Simpson Associates Power BI Portal:

Impress your customers with powerful analytics within a customised web portal experience.

No need for your users to have any prior knowledge of Power BI or to even have access to Power BI.

Easy to configure dynamic row-level security for internal and external users.

The Power BI Portal is an all-in-one solution that can easily be deployed into your environment and configured to fit your business needs. 

Managing users can all be handled within the Power BI Portal itself. In fact, users do not need access to Power BI at all, or any prior knowledge of Power BI, for them to be able to consume the reports. 

Easily offer customers an additional service offering with analytics via our portal or grant internal users customised access without Power BI administration.

The portal provides tools to help ensure your Power BI data models can apply the security you need when you configure dynamic row-level security (RLS), making sure your data is being accessed securely.

Our Power BI Portal can be made to fit your organisation perfectly. For that reason, there are a number of further key features that will make your portal super effective and efficient:

Power BI Portal key features: What you get

Share Power BI reports, paginated reports, and dashboards internally and externally with customers.

Create and manage the organisational hierarchy that fits your business and your customers. 

Control access to Power BI content through user groups within the Portal.

Automatically sync your chosen Power BI content with the portal to easily manage the content to share with your customers.

Enable local accounts, Azure AD, Open ID Connect and SAML 2.0 authentication methods for each organisation dynamically. 

Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on user accounts for login, providing a modern and secure access policy. 

Apply IP restrictions for each organisation to ensure secure access to your data. 

Provide an optional self-service model for your customers, by granting them access to manage their own organisations and sub-organisations. 

Control the user accounts your customers can add through domain restrictions.

Grant role-based user permissions to control access to areas within the Portal for your users. 

Create dynamic email templates for invitational emails or more general marketing emails. 

Generate email campaigns to bulk invite users to the Power BI Portal, or to simply email multiple users at once. 

Outcomes

The Power BI Portal acts as an all-in-one solution that gives you the power to share interactive Power BI report dashboards seamlessly with both internal and external teams.

The opportunity to bring together information and data onto a single data platform is revolutionary.

Kate ThackerDetective Chief Superintendent

Simpson Associates demonstrated that they were true experts in the field; within a few weeks they had a solid understanding of our business requirements and turned around an initial solution within an astonishingly quick timescale. From delivering the budget within a tight timeframe to supporting our learning and development, Simpson Associates has allowed us to become genuinely self-sufficient, sharing their knowledge and expertise at every step of our journey.

Gillian TroupGroup Financial Controller

Simpson Associates provided us with the expertise to see us through the design and the implementation phases and potential problems that we hit and got us through those. But they also understood our needs as a charity, the components that make up our data warehouse come partly from Microsoft, partly from other companies like Civica and Simpson Associates provided the glue to help us bring those together and get the best out of them.

Jon FoxAssociate Director of IT

Simpson Associates was dedicated to matching our brief, There was healthy debate of course but they always presented reasoned responses, or accommodated our wishes when needed. It’s a very flexible relationship and the synergy we’ve built is vital to the knowledge transfer process.

Neil Spreadbury Commercial Finance Officer
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Why Simpson Associates can help customers on their Power BI journey as a Microsoft Partner

Simpson Associates is a Microsoft Partner with over 30 years of data experience. We have the expertise to help organisations get the most out of Microsoft technologies. We have a deep understanding of Microsoft Power BI and how it can be used to help organisations achieve their data goals.

Next Steps

To learn more about getting started with the Simpson Associates Fabric Accelerator, contact us today!

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