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Do you have any suggestions of how to educate individuals at my company on the proper terms relative of Power BI? A report and dashboard are 2 different artifacts. Please STOP calling everything a dashboard.
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[@JBartlett_DMU]

The best way I've found to help business users understand the difference between a dashboard and report is with an analogy:
"Imagine you're driving your car, and you need to check how fast you're going, how much gas you have left, whether your tires are all properly inflated, and whether the temperature and pressure of both your coolant and oil are within the normal operating ranges, and you have to do all of that in less than 5 seconds, because you can't take your eyes off the road for any longer than that. You have two tools you can use for this task: The first option is the car's built-in dashboard right in front of you. It's non-interactive, so you can't slice and dice, drill-down, etc. But all of your car's Key Performance Indicators are right there, exactly where you need them. The second option is a laptop on the seat next to you, which is plugged into the OBD-II port under your steering wheel, and it can give you the exact readings of every sensor in the entire vehicle over time. It has endless tables full of sensor IDs and diagnostic codes, each of which has its own lookup table, and there are interactive filters that you can use to display only the data collected during certain ranges of time, or from specific sensors. Now, which of these two tools will you use when you need to check your car's Key Performance Indicators while driving down the road?"

[@enterprisar863]

Mike & Tommy should starting dropping the “bi” and just start saying Power. “Hey Seth can you open Power” 😂