I’m pleased to announce that a white paper I co-authored with Melissa Coates on “Planning a Power BI enterprise deployment” has now been published. You can download it from the Power BI white papers site here: https://aka.ms/pbienterprisedeploy

Melissa has already blogged about the white paper here.

Topics covered include the different ways that Power BI can be deployed (as a self-service BI tool or as a corporate BI tool); licensing; preparing data for use in Power BI; choosing a data storage mode (import vs Live connections to SSAS vs DirectQuery); data refresh and the on-premises gateway; best practices for report development; collaboration and sharing (covering apps and content packs); options for consuming reports and data published to Power BI; and security, compliance and administration. If that sounds like a lot, it is: it’s 105 pages long!

It was a real pleasure working with Melissa on this, and I’d also…