How to share your Power BI Dashboards and Reports on digital signage?

This blog post covers the steps to display your Power BI on Digital Signage displays in a secure way. You can show your Power BI Report or Dashboard on office displays without making your report URL public. 

Keep reading to learn more ⬇️

Drive action with Digital Signage & Business Insights

The truth can be found in the data. You’ve got data, but what next?

You need to communicate your insights and information to drive action throughout the workplace. Datavisualization is the key for the employees to understand the bigger picture. Visuals are more engaging than the raw data.

Go data-driven – Share your Power BI Reports on Digital Signage

With today’s tools, the data can be collected, analyzed and summarised into dashboards with easy-to-use tools, such as Microsoft Power BI.

The data visualizations make it easier to understand the trends, patterns and the whole story around the data.

You now have actionable information.

BUT

Creating a great looking dashboard is not enough. You need to get your KPIs in Insights in front of the right people in order to drive action.

Valotalive – Microsoft Power BI integration – the secure way to display your dashboards

Valotalive has made it easy to share your MS Power BI dashboards or reports with your employees on

digital signage screens around the workplace.

Native Authentication to ensure high Security for you

Valotalive Power BI Digital Signage integration is based on native Azure AD authentication making it a secure way to display your dashboards.

Authenticating Valotalive with MS Power BI cloud means that you do not need to make any reports / dashboards public to show them on Digital Signage displays.

Follow these steps to display your Power BI Report on Digital Signage

1. Power BI Account

Make sure you have a valid MS Power BI cloud account

2. Valotalive Account

3. Activate Your Display in Valotalive

Make sure you have an active display in Valotalive. You may test the service with a Valotalive My Display (Chrome Extension) display during the free trial.

Later you will need a mediaplayer that will connect Valotalive digital signage software with your office display. You may use any existing display with HDMI. Alternatively you have some options to go forward:

• Option I You can order the preconfigured, ready-to-go devices straight from Valotalive. 
• Option II You can run Valotalive on your own media player running on Windows 10.

4. Activate your MS Power BI App in Valotalive

Once you are in Valotalive activate your MS Power BI Dashboards or Report app. We provide you with two different apps to suit your preferences (Reports or Dashboards)

• As one of the first steps you will be asked to authenticate Valotalive with MS Power BI cloud using your MS credentials.
• Valotalive supports Microsoft Azure AD authentication to enable best possible level of security for you:

Enter your MS Power BI credentials in Valotalive to go forward as shown in the image. You will be then taken back to Valotalive settings.

5. Adjust your Power BI Digital Signage app settings

In app settings choose the report / dashboard from the drop down menu + give further preferences in advance settings. You can scroll through the different tabs in Power BI Reports.

6. Assign your Power BI app to your Display

Read more about Valotalive’s Power BI App

Turn your insights into actions – Go Data Driven

Data driven communication in practice means that we are sharing actionable information and visualizations around strategic domains, such as:

• Sales KPIs
• Health & Safety records
• Production Data
• Financials
• Quality
• Employee Incentive KPIs

Power BI + Valotalive Digital Signage is a perfect combination to drive transparency within your organization.

Further Reading you might find interesting

Top 5 Power BI Visual Design Best Practices (a blog post by PowerpivotPro)

Workplace Digital Signage Content Strategy: A Beginner’s Guide

How to Use Filters in Power BI on Digital Signage to Target Your Reports Better