Overview
We discussed briefly in the architecture chapter that the Power BI mobile app is used to consume mobile reports. This also raises a curiosity that if the Power BI mobile app is used to consume SSRS Mobile reports, then why not use Power BI itself for authoring reports and consume them in a mobile app. It’s important to understand the use case for Power BI and Mobile Report Publisher. In this section we will briefly discuss this.
Explanation
Below is a comparison of features supported by Power BI and Mobile Report Publisher.
Power BI as well as SSRS Mobile reports both can be accessed with the Power BI Mobile App.
If you analyze the above features supported by Power BI vs. Mobile Publisher, you can derive that when cost is a concern and the requirement is to have more design control for mobile and tablet based reporting without any data readiness, then Mobile Report Publisher is a more suitable option.
When it comes to more data control, support for custom and complex visualization and cloud based pricing model, then Power BI would be the right candidate.
Additional Information
- Download Power BI Desktop and consider exploring to get an idea about reporting with Power BI.
Siddharth has more than 14 years of experience in the IT Industry, with more than a decade of experience in Business Intelligence and Analytics, for clients banking, logistics, government, Media Entertainment, products, life sciences and other domains. He has been a lead architect for a portfolio of 40+ apps, containing apps in web, mobile, BI, Analytics, data warehousing, reporting, collaboration, CMS, NoSQL and other technologies. He has several certifications and is a published author for online and print-media publications, as well as the MSDN Library.
In his present role, he remains responsible for architecture design, technology stack selection, infrastructure design, 3rd party products evaluation and procurement, and performance engineering. These applications use technologies like Elasticsearch / Lucene, MongoDB, SharePoint 2013 and 2010, jQuery-based framework like Highcharts and GoJS, SQL Server and the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MDX, PowerPivot, PowerView), jQueryMobile, Bootstrap, iOS xCode framework, and many others.
- MSSQLTips Awards: Champion (100+ tips) – 2018 | Author of the Year – 2017 | Author Contender – 2016, 2018-2019
