Overview

Thank you for your interest in IntePort's Early Warning System (EWS) Power BI App based on the Ed-Fi ODS.

This Power BI App is free of charge and has been populated with sample data so you can now get started exploring and experimenting with the Ed-Fi powered EWS data visualizations in minutes at no cost and without needing to first deploy and configure the full Ed-Fi technology stack. You will need Power BI Pro to utilize this app. More information on Power BI Pro can be found here.

In order to populate this EWS Power BI App with your district's production data, you will first need to deploy IntePort's Ed-Fi Implementation Suite for Azure solution from the Azure Marketplace. That solution can be found here. Once that solution is deployed, you can simply follow the steps below to reconfigure the data connection in this EWS Power BI App to point to your new production Ed-Fi ODS database on Azure SQL. Doing so will replace the sample data in this Power BI App with real production data from your newly deployed Ed-Fi ODS.

If you have any questions or run into any problems deploying or configuring this EWS Power BI App, please let us know via email at sales@inteport.com. We’ll respond asap and help get you going.

Deployment Steps

  1. Go to Microsoft AppSource and sign-in to your account.
  2. Click Get it now on the app you want to download.
  3. Click Install.
  4. To start exploring and experimenting with the EWS Power BI visualizations right away, simply click Explore app and you will be taken to all the EWS reports populated with sample data.
  5. If you have already deployed IntePort's Ed-Fi Implemenation Suite for azure, click Connect to connect the app to your deployed instance of the Ed-Fi ODS with production data.
    1. On the Data Connection pop-up, enter your Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Server Name, Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Database Name and click Next.
    2. To authenticate the database, select Basic for Authentication method, enter a valid Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Database User Name and Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Database Password and click Sign in.

Edit or Reconfigure the Data Connection

You can edit or reconfigure the data connection in this EWS Power BI App at any time. For example, if you have both a staging and production version of the Ed-Fi ODS deployed on Azure SQL you can reconfigure this Power BI App between them to explore the data from each ODS instance.

  1. In the app workspace, open the Datasets tab.
  2. Click the Menu (...) and select Settings.
  3. Expand the Parameters section and update the Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Server Name, Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Database Name and click Apply.
  4. To authenticate the database, select Basic for Authentication method, enter a valid Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Database User Name and Ed-Fi ODS Azure SQL Database Password and click Sign in.
  5. Return to the app workspace, open the Datasets tab and click the Refresh icon.