Questions and answers
Short answers to the questions we hear most about Dobler Insights. For everything else, ask us.
Do the people who view reports need a Power BI license?
No. Viewers sign in to the Dobler Insights portal, not to Power BI, and the portal shows them reports through Power BI Embedded. That holds for your own staff as well as customers and partners, however many of them there are. People who build or edit reports in Power BI itself still need a Power BI Pro or Premium Per User license.
Do we have to replace our current systems?
No. Dobler Insights takes in the files and databases you already have through one ingest engine: spreadsheets and CSV files are checked and loaded into tables, and databases are copied into daily, read-only snapshots, with history building up from there. Your reports are built on that, on a framework that already exists.
Does row-level security work for people outside our Microsoft Entra ID directory?
Yes. Row-level security works with any sign-in method, including SAML and other identity providers, so customers, partners and field staff can each be limited to their own rows.
How fast can we have analytics running?
A first dashboard takes days, starting from a spreadsheet. The process is the same for every source, so it repeats for the next source and the next report.
How is Dobler Insights different from building an in-house BI team?
Building it yourself on Power BI Embedded means your team builds the ingestion, embedding, security and deployment, and maintains them for as long as the reports exist: months of engineering before the first dashboard. Dobler Insights is a framework that already exists. Your reports go onto it, the people who view them need no Power BI license, row-level security is included for any sign-in method, and a first dashboard takes days, starting from a spreadsheet. Building it yourself is the better choice if you have an engineering team that wants full control of every layer.
What data can Dobler Insights take in?
Files and databases. Spreadsheets and CSV files are checked and loaded into tables, and databases are copied into daily, read-only snapshots, with history building up from there.
What is Dobler Insights built on?
Dobler Insights is anchored on Microsoft Fabric, with Lakehouse and Warehouse storage, and delivers through Power BI. Fabric Control, the Dobler Data Solutions control plane for Microsoft Fabric, handles monitoring, backup and capacity management.
Dobler Insights is a Dobler Data Solutions product with its own site: doblerinsights.com.
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