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can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

TysonTaylor — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:23:29 GMT

can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

ScottBall — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:44:55 GMT

Hey Tyson - at this time no, this map visual does not support ArcGIS Enterprise / connections to Portal for ArcGIS. It's a hot topic of discussion here at Esri, though, and we're working through some technical challenges to see if it's possible to provide ArcGIS Enterprise support.

One of the technical challenges is supporting secure connections from Power BI back to ArcGIS Enterprise. The underlying technology (chromium) that Power BI provides for visuals doesn't support all authentication types. It would be great if you (and anyone else requesting ArcGIS Enterprise support) could email me information about how you authenticate to ArcGIS Enterprise. This would help us understand if what we can build will actually work for those of you who want this feature. You can reach me at s b a l l @ e s r i . c o m - thanks!

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

TysonTaylor — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:50:57 GMT

Scott,

Thank you for the update.

Fyi: We are authenticating into our on-premise portals via Enterprise logins via SAML and using Azure AD as the identity provider. “ Which is working very well”.

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

ScottBall — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:46:09 GMT

Hey Tyson Taylor - another follow-up question regarding your request: at your company do you use the out-of-the-box version of Power BI that is based in the cloud ("Power BI service"), or do you use the on-prem version ("Power BI Report Server")?

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

ZaraCarman — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:28:12 GMT

Hi, has there been any progression with this feature?

For our portal we have manual accounts created, no auto logins.

And we use both versions of Power BI depending on the business use case, the average user would just use the cloud version while advanced users utilise the on prem version.

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

TysonTaylor — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:54:42 GMT

Scott,

We I believe are using the on-prem version power BI report server.

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

WilliamMayr — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:44:28 GMT

We are also interested in this feature. We're using the Power BI service and ArcGIS Enterprise on Azure VMs, authenticating with Azure AD.

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

ScottSandusky — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:25:29 GMT

ArcGIS Maps for Power BI now supports connecting to ArcGIS Enterprise.

ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Power BI – March 2020.1 Release

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

TysonTaylor — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:32:35 GMT

Excellent thank you.

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

Hussam_AlJabri — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:58:32 GMT

Hi all,

Jon Emch‌, Dynasty Machado‌

I am trying to access to ArcGIS Map for power bi using ArcGIS Enterprise Portal account but it returned a below message:

Do I have to have add-on license for the ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8? if yes, how?

Kindly help me out here.

Thanks

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

JonEmch — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:41:16 GMT

Good morning Hussam,

Correct, you will need to purchase an ArcGIS Maps for PowerBI Add on license to work with ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8, more info on purchasing can be found here: ArcGIS Maps for Power BI Pricing | Add License for Access

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

Hussam_AlJabri — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:59:38 GMT

Thanks Jon!

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

BattulgaGantulga — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 03:54:55 GMT

Hi, My PowerBI Desktop is successfully connected in Portal for ArcGIS 10.7.1 using ArcGIS Account. But I Can't sign in upgraded Portal for ArcGIS 10.8.1. Please help answer this question

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

JonEmch — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:47:13 GMT

10.8.1 utilizes the ArcGIS for PowerBI Add on license. Although this license was deprecated, 10.8.1 still requires it. You should be able to go onto myEsri and regenerate your ArcGIS Portal license with an allocation for ArcGIS for PowerBI Add on licenses. If you dont see those licenses there, contact your CSR.

If you do have the add on license, could you make sure that the ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1 deployment is accessible to the internet.

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

BryceSchultz — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:27:48 GMT

Hi Jon,

I'm experiencing the same problem as listed above with 10.8.1. Can you expand on what you mean by deprecated but still required?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Bryce

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

JonEmch — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:34:37 GMT

Hey there Bryce, let me explain:

The license has been deprecated: This means that Esri will no longer sell / require the license to use ArcGIS for PowerBI, instead opting for user types

The license is still required in 10.8.1: Due to technical limitations in 10.8.1 / 10.8 licensing, ArcGIS Enterprise still requires the license. Esri has allocated a large number of licenses to existing users of ArcGIS for PowerBI at no cost to those users. The current workflow is to re generate the ArcGIS Enterprise Portal license with these new licenses allocated.

Should you need more, or do not see those add on licenses, feel free to contact customer Customer Services and they will be able to assist you with getting more allocations.

Please let me know if this clears it up for you, I'd be happy to assist.

Re: can you connect power BI to Portal for ArcGIS hosted on premise

BryceSchultz — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:59:20 GMT

Hi Jon,

I understand now. Thanks a lot for the quick and thorough reply! I appreciate it!

Bryce