Microsoft Power BI Output Tool- for desktop power BI?

[alison]

Hi, my company is trying to move some of our data presentation from tableau to power bi (which I have no experience with yet). I've seen some conversation about the Microsoft Power BI Output Tool, but it appears that this is for use with the power BI web application and what they have given me is a desktop version of Power BI. Will this tool be effective for published data that can be consumed in the Power Bi desktop environment? 

If not, what output would be the most suitable? The limitations of excel and csv do not seem ideal.

Appreciate the insight.

[mceleavey]

Hi @alison ,

Given that Power BI is a DAX engine, which is effectively Excel with lipstick, your best option for the desktop deployment is to output into .csv. 

For enterprise deployment we can connect Alteryx to the Azure cloud instance and directly update the back-end dataset, but on the desktop version .csv is just as quick.

Unfortunately, Power BI does not have optimisation to the level of a .tde file for Tableau, and nowhere near the compression and optimisation of a .qvd file for Qlik Sense.

M.