What is Dashboard in Power BI

• A dashboard represents a customized view of some subset of the underlying dataset(s)
• A dashboard is a single canvas that has tiles, graphics, and text.
• Designers build dashboards and share them with consumers; either individually or as part of an app
• Consumers can’t edit dashboards. You can however add comments, view related data, set it as favorite, subscribe, and more
• ONE dashboard:
  • can display visualizations from many different datasets
  • can display visualizations from many different reports
  • can display visualizations pinned from other tools (for example, Excel)
• Links:
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-dashboard-create

Purposes of dashboards

• to see, in one glance, all the info needed to make decisions
• to monitor the most-important info about your business
• to ensure all colleagues are on the same page; viewing and using the same info
• to monitor the health of a business or product or business unit or marketing campaign, and so on
• to create a personalized view of a larger dashboard – all the metrics that matter to you

Dashboard in Power BI Online

Dashboard is only available in Power BI Online (Power BI Services)