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Business Intelligence What Is Oracle OBIEE? Oracle OBIEE (Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) is Oracle's on-premises enterprise BI platform built around an RPD metadata repository with physical, business model… Technical Business Intelligence What Is OTBI (Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence)? OTBI (Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence) is the real-time reporting capability embedded in Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, providing prebuilt subject areas over live… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Power BI Composite Model? A Power BI composite model combines tables using different storage modes, such as Import and DirectQuery, or connections to other semantic models,… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Power BI Dataflow? A Power BI dataflow is a cloud data preparation item that runs Power Query transformations in the Power BI or Fabric service… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Power BI Dataset (Semantic Model)? A Power BI dataset, now called a semantic model, is the Power BI item that holds tables, relationships, DAX measures, hierarchies and… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Power BI Deployment Pipeline? A Power BI deployment pipeline is the built-in lifecycle tool that promotes content such as semantic models and reports through development, test… Technical Business Intelligence Power BI Desktop vs Power BI Service — What Is the Difference? Power BI Desktop vs Power BI Service describes the split between Power BI Desktop, the free Windows authoring tool for modelling data… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Power BI Embedded (Azure)? Power BI Embedded is the Azure service for embedding Power BI reports and dashboards into custom applications and portals using capacity-based licensing,… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Power BI Gateway? A Power BI gateway is software installed inside an organisation's network that securely connects the Power BI Service to on-premises sources such… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Power BI Report Server? Power BI Report Server is Microsoft's on-premises server for hosting Power BI reports, paginated reports and related content inside an organisation's infrastructure,… Technical Business Intelligence What Is the Power BI REST API? The Power BI REST API is Microsoft's programmatic interface for managing Power BI resources, including triggering refreshes, managing workspaces and permissions, embedding… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Power BI Row-Level Security (RLS) Implementation? Power BI row-level security (RLS) implementation is the definition of roles and DAX filter rules in a semantic model, mapped to users… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Role-Playing Dimension? A role-playing dimension is a single dimension table used in several roles by the same fact table, most commonly a date table… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Snowflake Data Cloud? Snowflake Data Cloud is a fully managed, multi-cloud data platform that separates storage from compute for independent scaling, supports structured and semi-structured… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Surrogate Key? A surrogate key is a system-generated identifier, usually an integer, used as the primary key of a dimension row instead of the… Technical

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