Can Power BI handle live data feeds? How do you set them up?

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Can Power BI handle live data feeds? How do you set them up?

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Power BI provides the ability to connect to live feeds in an efficient manner and is a powerful tool for the organization looking to perform real-time business intelligence reporting. Power BI provides options such as DirectQuery and streaming datasets to connect to many live data sources including SQL Server, Azure and web APIs, and those connections will ensure visualizations in dashboards are updated when the source changes, and Power BI eliminates the need for manual refreshes. Live data connections are ideal for scenarios when the business wants live data visualizations, such as tracking sales against targets or monitoring IoT device data, or organizational operational performance.


Many students enrolled in Power Bi Classes in Pune will learn how to handle live data connections such as Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI REST API. Streaming datasets in Power Bi can help organizations create real-time dashboards if you push data into Power BI directly from a data source or setup streaming datasets in Power BI. Live dashboards and reports can significantly help organizations improve their responsiveness and make decisions powered by data in the moment.


The Power Bi Course in Pune demonstrates not just how to configure live connections but rather how to care for performance while utilizing them. An example demonstrated in the Power BI Course in Pune is that DirectQuery could toe robustness of the report speed, thus when using it you should from the onset create a good model and then suitable visuals that yield good performance insights.

Additionally, when participants attend Power Bi Training in Pune, they dive into data gateway configurations, which are critical for connecting on-premise data sources to Power BI Service. The data gateway is a bridge and a secure and live access point into on-premise databases without losing enterprise governance and or security. Properly configured, Power BI can provide strong, live insight to drive timely, informed decisions.