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BI Pixie Starter Deployment

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BI Pixie - know your Power BI audience and measure engagement, adoption and satisfaction

BI Pixie is an innovative solution that tracks and analyzes the engagement of your Power BI audience. BI Pixie provides you so much more than the default page views you can get in Power BI. With BI Pixie you can track session durations, interactions per sessions, users, filtered values and column names used in slicers, clicks on bookmarks and hyperlinks, drill-throughs, tooltip views, and more. With best-of-breed user adoption and attrition KPIs such as DAU, WAU and MAU and time intelligence, you can know your BI audience and drive informed decisions on your future BI investments.


What's New in this Version:

  • Data Auditing: This new page allows you to analyze what data users select in your reports. Data Auditing is a great tool for analyzing their interests. For example, if you use BI Pixie to track usage in a sales dashboard, you can see which products your sellers are most interested in. Data Auditing also helps ensure that users can access only the data they are authorized to see.
  • The semantic model includes a time table to analyze peak times of any metric.

Recent Features:
  • The Visual Clicks Heatmap tracks visual interactions in each visual of your tracked Power BI reports. The heatmap shows the exact location of the visuals, their number of clicks and the selected dimensions that the users clicked on.
  • BI Pixie can read information from your Power BI service and allow you to analyze report efficiency at the capacity and workspace level.
  • The app visuals include hyperlinks to specific workspaces, reports or pages, allowing you to easily navigate from BI Pixie app to the actual reports that need improvements.
  • In the Design Impact and Design Changes pages, you can analyze how different design aspects affect the levels of engagement.
  • You can track usage in reports with live connections and analyze their aggregated effectiveness (engagement, adoption, user satisfaction) at the Semantic Model level.
  • BI Pixie can add thumbs up/down or smile/frown buttons in your reports to collect user satisfaction from your BI audience.
  • BI Pixie can run Git pull and push of Power BI reports from multiple workspaces that are integrated with Git and can report Git folders as workspaces in the events

Here are the key advantages of BI Pixie:

  • The data that is tracked never leaves your organization.
  • The solution can be deployed in minutes and track hundreds of reports.
  • The solution can track engagement from any platform (Power BI service, Power BI desktop, Power BI mobile, Power BI embedded, Publish to web, Power BI report server, Power BI in Teams).
  • No use of custom visuals. The solution uses built-in Power BI building blocks.
  • BI Pixie was acknowledged by industry experts in live webinars and podcast, and was featured by Microsoft in Power BI September Feature Summary.


BI Pixie includes 6 components. The first two are not included in this app, but are available to download when you start the trial.

  1. "bi-pixie.exe" - An automation that runs on an input folder with your Power BI project files, and instrument your reports.
  2. A Power BI app that analyzes the usage and engagement levels of your Power BI audience. This app could not be packaged in this app, but you can install it separately to your Power BI tenant.
  3. "BI Pixie Web Trigger" - A Power Automate cloud flow with a web trigger that tracks the engagement events in your Power BI reports.
  4. "BI Pixie Web Trigger Inventory" - A Power Automate cloud flow with a web trigger that collects the inventory of the Power BI reports.
  5. "BI Pixie Events" - A dataverse table that stores the events from the "BI Pixie Web Trigger" cloud flow.
  6. "BI Pixie Inventory" - A dataverse table that stores the inventory of Power BI reports from the "BI Pixie Web Trigger Inventory" cloud flow.
  7. "BI Pixie Inventory Visuals" - A dataverse table that stores all tracked visuals and their positions.


Learn more about BI Pixie here.

Start trial here.

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