COMMON DATAFLOW USE CASES

Connection USE CASE #1 Create entities to recycle common queries across multiple Power BI reports
Options
Multiple .pbix Reports
• Need to use the same query across multiple reports? Single Dataflow
Create a single dataflow and connect to it as a data
Local Files source, instead of creating a brand-new connection
and replicating your applied steps each time

Data Gateways

USE CASE #2 Create scheduled refreshes to align with reporting cadence

Dataflows
• For example, schedule one dataflow to refresh at 7 am
for your internal KPI report, and another to refresh
weekly for your executive client dashboard
Scheduled Refresh

Automation USE CASE #3 Centralize critical ETL processes to ensure data quality

• Maintaining separate ETL processes across reports with

the same data is tedious, inefficient, and error-prone
• Dataflows allow you to create, manage, and QA those
processes in one central place

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