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
Business Outcome
Performance
Security

Important Note

We have launched BI Pixie Cloud, a fully managed SaaS solution to offer you enterprise-grade capabilities. Learn more here. If you prefer to host BI Pixie on your Azure, keep reading and install this app by clicking Get it now below. If you prefer to use the fully-managed SaaS version, use BI Pixie Portal to install the correct version of BI Pixie Dashboard.

Recent Features in the self-hosted version of BI Pixie Dashboard (Azure):

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.
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.
Lineage of data sources to business outcome: Compare the business outcome of different data stacks (e.g., Databricks vs. Snowflake), endorsement levels and shared semantic models.
Activity Log Integration: Gain deeper visibility into Power BI user behavior including paginated report views, data exports, downloads, Analyze in Excel, and other consumer/producer actions across Power BI Activity Logs.
Embedded Surveys: Automatically insert a custom survey page at the end of reports to collect and analyze user feedback—assessing perceived value, key issues, and estimated business impact.
Data Auditing: Analyze which filters and data points users select in reports. Great for understanding interests and verifying authorized access.
Performance: Collect telemetry from your Azure Log Analytics workspace using BI Pixie Automation. Learn more.
Heatmaps: Visual Clicks Heatmap shows exact visual locations, number of clicks, and selected filters, helping improve report usability.
Design Impact: Understand how design affects engagement using Complexity, Usability, and Passivity scores.
Real-Time Use Cases: Deploy Event Hubs for large-scale or real-time data streaming scenarios.
Git Integration: Automate Git pull/push for Power BI reports across multiple workspaces with Git integration.

BI Pixie is designed to support enterprise BI teams:

The data that is tracked never leaves your organization.
The solution can be deployed in minutes and track thousands of reports.
The solution can track engagement from any platform (Power BI service, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Mobile, Power BI Embedded, Publish to Web, Power BI Report Server).
Does not use custom visuals. The solution uses built-in Power BI building blocks.
The deployment is super-easy and doesn’t require coding skills.

This app provides the analytics and data visualization layer for BI Pixie on Azure and connects to your Azure Storage account where you store BI Pixie usage data. Go to Microsoft Marketplace and deploy BI Pixie's serverless event collection components.

To start now with no deployments, try our new cloud version and experience BI Pixie firsthand—Start the trial today!

BI Pixie Dashboard (Azure)

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