Power BI and reporting
Microsoft Power BI is the University’s functionally rich reporting tool, available to staff across the University. You can use Power BI to produce sophisticated reports and dashboards, simply and easily.
Why Power BI?
Power BI replaces the Discoverer reporting tool, which is now out of support and will soon be decommissioned.
Watch a short video and discover some of the features and benefits of our new reporting tool.
IT help and support
The IT Support Centre provide technical help and support for Power BI. This includes managing requests for Power BI Pro licences, and access to reports (which are known as ‘Apps’ in Power BI). Access requests must be made by the line manager of the person requesting access.
Online help and support
Knowledge articles are available to help you – this may mean you don't need to call us. Search for ‘Power BI’ in the Support Portal – or click the links below:
- Power BI: Access and installation
- Power BI: Standard licence versus Pro licence
- Power BI: Naming conventions for Active Directory groups
- Power BI: Requesting a new Active Directory group for controlling access to reports
- Power BI: List of reporting areas
Help from your local reporting teams
Help with usage and creation of new reports is provided locally by reporting teams across the University – if you don’t know who your local contacts are, please speak to your school administration team.
Online learning and how to guides
We encourage anyone using Power BI to complete basic or advanced online training. There are also Microsoft help guides which cover topics such as how to create visualisations and dashboards, publishing, and using Power BI Desktop to connect to your own datasets.
