This chapter introduced two important types of objects in the Power BI Service: dashboards and apps.

Dashboards are a powerful feature that allow end users to bring together all of the most important information from multiple reports, datasets, other dashboards, Q&A, and other sources into a single-page canvas consisting of tiles. These tiles can be adjusted on the canvas and allow for the creation of data alerts to immediately inform users when key metric thresholds are met.

Apps, on the other hand, allow multiple dashboards and reports to be bundled together as an independent application and published to users. These apps provide similar features and functionality to the full Power BI Service.

In addition to understanding dashboards and apps, we have also taken an in-depth look at security within the Power BI Service. Power BI provides multiple levels of interrelated security settings for workspaces, apps, dashboards, reports, datasets, and even individual rows of datasets.

In the next chapter, we will focus on how to keep datasets that have been published to the Service refreshed.