Solutions
Built for the audiences Power BI alone does not reach
Four situations where the analytics exist but the distribution does not. Each is a configuration of the same control plane, not a separate product.
External partner sharing
Give every distributor, supplier or regulator its own slice — without licenses or guest accounts
The situation
A manufacturer tracks inventory and sales in Power BI and wants each of its fifty distributors to see only their own performance. Buying fifty Pro licenses is expensive; fifty guest accounts in the corporate Entra ID tenant are a compliance headache; one wrong filter leaks a competitor’s numbers; and the distributors want a branded portal, not the Power BI Service.
What DataCentral does
- One pooled Power BI service principal serves all external viewers (App-owns-data) — licensing is absorbed centrally.
- Distributors get User Pass or Mobile ID accounts that live in DataCentral, keeping your corporate directory clean.
- One report, one RLS role, one organizational unit per distributor: move a user between OUs and their data changes instantly.
- Your logo, colours and a partners.yourcompany.com subdomain; the portal shows only what each viewer is entitled to.
Embedded analytics for ISVs and SaaS
Ship an analytics tier in days, not a BI platform in quarters
The situation
Embedding Power BI natively in a SaaS product means building multi-tenant isolation, external identity, white-labeling and tiered packaging yourself — complex to build, hard to audit, expensive to maintain.
What DataCentral does
- Host/tenant model: you act as host and provision an isolated tenant per customer, each on its own subdomain with its own users and roles.
- Two integration paths: a white-labeled standalone portal (no code), or the Embedding API that renders reports inside your own UI with App-owns-data tokens.
- Editions and feature flags package analytics by subscription tier — Basic dashboards, Premium dashboards plus export and DAX query access.
- Customers on Entra ID use SSO; customers with their own identity store are served through the API without ever seeing a Microsoft login.
Enterprise-wide distribution
One governed front door for every business unit
The situation
Large organizations rarely lack reports — they lack a consistent way to get them to thousands of employees, many without Pro licenses, with row-level security that reflects the org chart and an audit trail that reflects reality.
What DataCentral does
- Entra ID single sign-on with your conditional-access and MFA policies; security groups synced to organizational units through Microsoft Graph.
- Roles assigned to units, not people: joiners, movers and leavers are handled by the directory sync.
- Smart RLS: one dynamic Power BI role carries many DataCentral roles, so regional, departmental and functional segmentation does not multiply into hundreds of roles.
- A pooled service principal serves viewers without Pro licenses; one audit log covers every login, view, export and role change.
Public screens and signage
Live dashboards on any screen — without a login, without losing control
The situation
Operations centres, lobbies, warehouses and airport concourses need live numbers on screens where nobody can sign in. The usual answer is a shared account or an unlisted link that never expires.
What DataCentral does
- Report keys open a specific report on a browser-capable screen without a login; each key carries an expiration and can be revoked from the console.
- Slideshows rotate a sequence of reports on a schedule.
- Keys are treated like credentials: listed in the admin portal, auditable, expiring by default.
See governed distribution running on your own Power BI content.
A 30-minute session: we connect a sample of your reports, model one internal and one external audience, and show the result end to end — not a slide deck.