CardioLog Software as a Service (SaaS) now allows you to gain all the benefits of CardioLog Analytics usage reports for your SharePoint website without having to own and maintain servers or extra equipment. With all of your usage report data in the cloud, you can also now use Microsoft Power BI to visualize and understand information about your website and your visitors.

Power BI allows users to visualize and analyze their data using customizable templates in either a browser or desktop application. In order to integrate your CardioLog usage report data with Power BI, first you will need to make sure you have either the desktop application installed or the web app configured. Additionally, your company or organization will have to pre-configure integration with CardioLog. For more information, see MS Power BI support. If your company already uses Power BI for other uses, CardioLog data can easily integrate into your workflow.

While CardioLog SaaS collects all the same data as our standard on-premise edition, Power BI gives you a different set of tools to visualize that data. Some important differences include live filters directly accessible from within reports that allow you to quickly compare multiple time periods and Microsoft's intelligent question based filters. You can also combine report modules from different sources, for example you can view site usage data collected by CardioLog alongside usage data from a mobile app and company sales reports.

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Import Organizational Data

Connecting to your organization's CardioLog dataset requires previous configuration by an Administrator. Once your organization has configured CardioLog SaaS for use with Power BI, data will actively update across dashboards and reports.

Open Power BI and follow these instructions in order to open an organizational content pack: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-organizational-content-pack-find-and-open/

You can find more information about how organizational content packs work, and how to collaborate with your coworkers here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-organizational-content-packs-introduction/

Create and Edit Dashboards

Once you've opened an organizational content pack in Power BI, follow these instructions to edit your dashboards and reports, without affecting your team's data: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-organizational-content-packs-use-and-work-with/

To better understand how to use Power BI dashboards in general, you can learn more here:   https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-dashboards/

Learn how to share your dashboards with anyone here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-share-unshare-dashboard/

Create and Edit Reports

CardioLog includes many helpful report data templates that will be included in your imported organizational data. There are several different ways to create a new report in Power BI. You can find more information here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-create-a-new-report/

You can learn more about reports in general here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-reports/

Ask Your Data Questions

Additionally, you can ask your data questions using plain language search terms. For more information about how Power BI interprets commonly used words, see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-q-and-a-tips/

Power BI integrates robust search features that allow you to ask natural language questions that it will interpret and use to actively filter and sort your data. In order to help your team use the feature thoroughly, you can also add keywords to labels, headings and titles. For tips on optimizing your reports see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-make-your-data-work-well-with-q-and-a/