

All of these technologies came to create a better development lifecycle for Power BI developers. That is why Power BI has been offering separate components to build the full architecture of Power BI Development, components, features, and technologies such as thin reports (reports that don’t have a dataset and connect live to another dataset), shared datasets (datasets that can be used to feed data into multiple reports), dataflows (the data transformation engine in the cloud), Composite model ( combining a shared dataset with additional data sources) and etc. What if you want to re-use a table in another Power BI file? what if you want to re-use a measure or expression in another report? Building everything in a Power BI file is simple, but it makes the maintenance of that a bit of trouble.

However, as time goes by in your Power BI development cycle, and you build more Power BI files, you realize that you need something else. That is exactly the promise that Microsoft offered about Power BI. If you read a few guides you can easily build your first report and dashboard using Power BI.
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Power BI Desktop is designed so easy and straightforward that even by just opening the tool and clicking here and there you would easily pick up how to use it. You don’t need to be a developer to use the Power BI Desktop. Power BI (and many other self-service tools) are targetting this type of audience. A citizen data analyst is someone who does not have a developer background but understands the business and the data related to that business. Power BI came to the market in 2015 with the promise of being a tool for citizen data analysts.
