This chapter has been all about using reports in the Service. The Service extends the functionality around reports far beyond what is provided in the Desktop. It does this through enabling collaboration, printing and exporting, embedding, and even the editing and creation of new reports. The Service allows report authors and viewers to collaborate on reports through commenting on entire reports or individual visuals. In addition, report users can subscribe to reports in order to receive automated emails containing the current contents of reports.

The Service also provides the critical ability to print reports, which is missing from the Desktop, in addition to allowing reports to be exported in various formats, such as PowerPoint and PDF. The Service also allows reports to be securely embedded in other websites and SharePoint Online. Finally, the Service allows you to edit reports directly within the Service or even create new reports from existing datasets.

In the next chapter, we will move beyond reports and explore new objects that can be created exclusively within the Power BI Service, dashboards, and apps. In addition, we will comprehensively cover security for reports, datasets, dashboards, and apps.