SharePoint Online: Reporting & Analytics with Power BI

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SharePoint Online: Reporting & Analytics 📊

Microsoft SharePoint Online · Curated Video Lessons

SharePoint Online works seamlessly with Microsoft Power BI — allowing you to embed interactive reports directly on SharePoint pages, connect SharePoint lists as Power BI data sources, and publish Power BI reports to SharePoint for easy team access. This combination brings powerful analytics and dashboards directly into your intranet, giving teams real-time insights without leaving SharePoint. This guide covers how to connect SharePoint to Power BI, embed reports on pages, and build dashboards from SharePoint list data.

Embed Reports Like a Pro

📊 Power BI & SharePoint Integration: Embed Reports Like a Pro!

A January 2024 tutorial covering how to embed a Power BI report into a SharePoint site step-by-step — covering how to get the Power BI report's embed URL, add the Power BI web part to a SharePoint page, configure the web part (select the report, set the default page, filter by report or page, enable interaction), and best practices for sizing and positioning the embedded report within your page layout. This video gives you everything you need to bring interactive Power BI dashboards directly into your SharePoint intranet pages.

  • Embed URL
  • Power BI Web Part
  • Report Filtering
  • Page Layout

Source: Power BI + SharePoint Integration Series 2024

Connect Lists to Power BI

🔗 Connect SharePoint Lists to Power BI – Step-by-Step Tutorial

A March 2025 step-by-step tutorial showing how to connect your SharePoint list to Power BI for powerful data analysis and reporting — covering how to use Power BI Desktop's SharePoint List connector, authenticate with your SharePoint credentials, select the list to import, transform and clean the data in Power Query, build visualisations, and publish the report to Power BI service for sharing. SharePoint lists are one of the most commonly used Power BI data sources in organisations that use Microsoft 365, and this tutorial covers the connection process completely.

  • List Connector
  • Power Query
  • Data Transform
  • Publish Report

Source: SharePoint Power BI Data Series 2025

Add Reports in Minutes

⚡ Add Power BI Reports to SharePoint in Minutes

A March 2025 tutorial showing how to add a Power BI report to a SharePoint page quickly and easily — covering the fastest path from a Power BI report to a SharePoint page, including how to configure the Power BI web part for the best visual experience, how to enable users to interact with the embedded report (cross-filter, drill down, select slicers) directly on the SharePoint page without navigating away, and how to control report navigation when multiple pages are embedded. Ideal for teams that want analytics in their intranet without a complex setup process.

  • Quick Setup
  • Interactive Reports
  • Cross-Filter
  • Report Navigation

Source: SharePoint Power BI Quick Setup Series 2025

SharePoint Analytics

📈 Visualize SharePoint Analytics Data with Power BI

A tutorial on visualising and exploring SharePoint site usage analytics data using Power BI — covering how to access SharePoint's built-in usage reports, export the analytics data, connect it to Power BI, and build dashboards that show page views, unique visitors, popular content, and user activity trends across your SharePoint sites. Understanding how your SharePoint intranet is actually being used is critical for improving it, and this video shows how to use Power BI to turn SharePoint's raw analytics data into actionable insights for intranet owners and administrators.

  • Usage Analytics
  • Page Views
  • User Activity
  • Intranet Insights

Source: SharePoint Analytics with Power BI Series

Full Integration Guide

🏆 Integrating Power BI with SharePoint Online

A comprehensive guide to integrating Power BI with SharePoint Online — covering the full integration ecosystem including the Power BI web part on SharePoint pages, the SharePoint List connector in Power BI, publishing Power BI reports to SharePoint document libraries, using SharePoint as a data source for dataflows in Power BI service, and configuring row-level security to ensure SharePoint users only see data they're permitted to view in embedded Power BI reports. A complete reference for organisations building an analytics layer on top of their SharePoint data.

  • Full Integration
  • Dataflows
  • Row-Level Security
  • SharePoint as Data Source

Source: Power BI SharePoint Integration Complete Guide

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