The Power BI integration in Secoda brings important business intelligence context into your data catalog, helping your teams better discover, document, and govern Power BI assets. By connecting Power BI to Secoda, you can make reports, dashboards, and models more transparent, easier to manage, and aligned with broader data governance initiatives.
Add to SecodaSecoda automatically extracts metadata from Power BI reports, dashboards, datasets, semantic models, measures, tables, tiles, pages, and dataflows. It captures key fields like usage statistics, ownership, and descriptions, including those directly from semantic models. The integration also supports the extraction of DAX expressions—allowing users to see the logic behind calculated measures and columns across their semantic models. When metadata scanning is fully enabled in Power BI, Secoda can surface these expressions for deeper analysis and easier debugging of complex calculations. Fabric apps are supported as well, with visibility into where reports and visualizations within the app originated. This comprehensive metadata ingestion makes it easier to understand the structure and purpose of your Power BI assets without requiring manual updates.
The integration connects to Power BI through secure Microsoft APIs, using either OAuth authentication or a custom Azure AD App setup. Once connected, Secoda syncs metadata from your Power BI environment into a centralized workspace, where it becomes searchable, documentable, and governable. Admins can choose to enable deeper metadata extraction and cross-platform lineage by configuring the integration with the appropriate API access and permissions. The connection process is simple to initiate from Secoda’s Integrations page, with guided steps available for both setup paths.
Data lineage is visualized automatically within Secoda, offering interactive diagrams that help users trace how data flows from tables and measures within semantic models to the dashboards and reports that rely on them. Relationships between reports, dashboards, datasets, and even visuals in Fabric apps are surfaced clearly. This helps teams understand dependencies, assess impact from upstream changes, and resolve issues faster. If only Non-Admin APIs are enabled, lineage will be limited to within the Power BI environment and will not include connections to external systems like Snowflake.
Secoda transforms your BI assets into a dynamic data dictionary by extracting and organizing metadata such as semantic model descriptions, table and measure definitions, and usage details. You can enrich this dictionary directly within Secoda through additional tagging, AI-generated descriptions, and business context. This helps reduce confusion around metrics, speeds up onboarding for new team members, and ensures consistent understanding of reporting logic.
With Secoda, Power BI knowledge is no longer siloed within the data team. Reports and dashboards become searchable across your company, and users can easily explore and understand their context through descriptions, ownership, and lineage. Secoda’s collaborative features allow data teams to answer questions, track documentation history, and ensure the right people have access to the right information. This improves cross-functional alignment and fosters a stronger data culture across the business.
By consolidating metadata in Secoda, you create a centralized, trustworthy view of your business intelligence resources. Teams can align on definitions, reduce report duplication, and ensure consistent usage of metrics. Combining Power BI with Secoda enables a more scalable, governed, and collaborative approach to BI, where data quality, ownership, and transparency are embedded into everyday workflows.
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