You've spent the course of this book creating amazing reports using the Power BI Desktop client. Now, it's time to share those reports with your team, company, or customers. In this chapter, you're going to learn about the Power BI service and how to use it to do the following:

Deploy reports to the Power BI service
Create and interact with dashboards
Share dashboards
Secure your reports with row-level security
Schedule refreshes of your data

The Power BI service operates a freemium model. You can get most of the features in the free model, but when you want to share data with others and use team development, it will need to be upgraded to the pro edition. Other features requiring the pro edition are the ability to store larger datasets and more frequently refresh, to name a few.

Before you begin this chapter, make sure you sign up for a free account at Power BI (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/). Some sections of this book will require a pro license, such as the section dealing with workspaces.