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Power BI dataflows and Fabric dataflows

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Power BI dataflows and Fabric dataflows

How dataflows centralise data preparation across many Power BI semantic models and reports.

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What a dataflow is

A dataflow is essentially Power Query running in the cloud on a schedule:

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Power BI dataflows vs Fabric Dataflow Gen2

The dataflow product has evolved:

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Common use cases

### Centralised dimension data

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Authoring

Dataflows are authored in the Power BI Service or Microsoft Fabric browser experience:

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Refresh schedule

Dataflows refresh on schedule independently from downstream semantic models:

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Linked entities

A dataflow's output can be consumed by another dataflow — chain transformations:

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When dataflows aren't the right tool

For organisations with multiple analysts authoring related reports, dataflows are how you avoid the "every report has its own ETL" problem. Author once; consume everywhere; standardise across the BI estate.

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