BI Pixie is a groundbreaking solution built to optimize Power BI adoption and trust. It delivers deep insights into user behavior, performance issues, and security risks—empowering teams to boost engagement, prevent data leakage, and maximize BI impact and ROI. BI Pixie redefines how organizations deliver and manage business intelligence with Power BI. Data and analytics leaders can maximize the value of their BI investments by gaining insights into their audiences. With seamless integration into your existing BI lifecycle and Power BI tenant, BI Pixie can track unique usage data using an innovative instrumentation of Power BI reports and semantic models, and measure dashboard effectiveness, and user intelligence in six dimensions: Adoption, Engagement, User Satisfaction, Performance, Security & Governance.

What's New:

Row-Level Security (RLS) Auditing: Track data leakage and suspicious access to Row-Level secured tables in your Power BI reports and gain unprecedented auditing and early detection of RLS flaws.
Data Export Auditing: Analyze data export events (CSV, Excel exports from visuals). Measure export events via the lens of performance, user-experience and security at the user, report, page, and visual levels.

More Features:

Add embedded surveys in your Power BI reports to collect user feedback on financial gains, time-savings, technical issues and NPS (Net Promoter Scores).
A integration with Log Analytics allows you to incorporate performance data per visual and analyze how slow visuals, pages and reports can impact user adoption and engagement.
The Visual Clicks Heatmap shows you all the visuals in your tracked reports by their exact location, their number of clicks and the selected dimensions users clicked on. Read more here.
BI Pixie can read information from your Power BI service and allow you to analyze report efficiency at the capacity and workspace level. Read more in our blog.
You can measure the engagement of your reports at the shared semantic model aggregate level.

BI Pixie can detect ineffective design patterns in your reports. Read more in our blog.

BI Pixie can add thumbs up/down or smile/frown buttons in your reports to collect user satisfaction from your BI audience. Read more in our blog.

You can deploy Event Hubs to meet higher scale and enable real-time use cases (If you opt out of Event Hubs, events will be passed to the storage account via the storage queue).

In The News:

Microsoft-Approved Press Release: Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to BI Pixie to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies. Read the Press Release here.
BI Pixie was featured by Microsoft in the Power BI September 2024 Feature Summary [here]

With BI Pixie you gain these benefits:

You can measure the return on your BI investment.
The tracked data never leaves your organization.
The solution can be deployed in minutes and can track thousands of reports.
The solution can track engagement from any platform (Power BI service, desktop, mobile, embedded, publish to web, on-prem).
No use of custom visuals. The solution uses native Power BI pixel-sized building blocks.
The deployment is super-easy and doesn’t require advanced IT or coding skills.

This is the Azure Solution Template of BI Pixie that will deploy the serverless components in your Azure account.

Once you deploy this template, you can instrument your Power BI reports and analyze your audience with the BI Pixie Dashboard, which is available in AppSource here.

Start your BI Pixie trial today here using this solution template.

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