Power BI Terms - Snack 2

Did you get your homework done?  When you accessed Power BI last time, I asked you to poke around.  Did you discover anything interesting?

Before we really dive in, there are a couple of high-level terms you should be familiar with, as they relate to Power BI.

Report - An interactive collection of visualizations enabling analysis and insights, based on a Semantic Model.

Dashboard - A single-page, interactive canvas enabling a high-level overview of your data through single visualizations that live in a Report, or even an entire Report page.

App - A collection of dashboards, reports, datasets, and other Power BI content created and shared through a single access point.

Semantic Model - the logical layer that represents the structure and meaning of the data within a specific context. It captures the relationships, transformations, and calculations needed to create reports and dashboards. 

Workspace - A collaborative space where a group of folks can work together on dashboards, reports, datasets, and other content.

Essentially, a Semantic Model defines a Report, whose visualizations may live in a Dashboard, a collection of all may reside within an App.  These reports and models may also live in a collaborative workspace or only in your own individual workspace.

Your homework.  Remember this forever.