BI Pixie - Engagement metrics for Power BI
by DataChant
BI Pixie - know your Power BI audience using Power BI usage and engagement metrics
BI Pixie is an innovative solution that tracks and analyzes the engagement of your Power BI audience. BI Pixie provides you so much more than the default page views you can get in Power BI. With BI Pixie you can track session durations, interactions per sessions, users, filtered values and column names used in slicers, clicks on bookmarks and hyperlinks, drill-throughs, tooltip views, and more. With best-of-breed user adoption and attrition KPIs such as DAU, WAU and MAU and time intelligence, you can know your BI audience and drive informed decisions on your future BI investments.
What's New in This Version:
You can now analyze the effectiveness of your report design. Using new scores for Complexity, Usability and Passivity, BI Pixie helps you identify ineffective design patterns in your reports.
Recent Features:
- BI Pixie was featured by Microsoft in Power BI September 2024 Feature Summary [here].
- BI Pixie can add thumbs up/down or smile/frown buttons in your reports to collect user satisfaction from your BI audience.
- BI Pixie can run Git pull and push of Power BI reports from multiple workspaces that are integrated with Git and can report Git folders as workspaces in the events.
Here are some key advantages in using BI Pixie:
- The data that is tracked never leaves your organization.
- The solution can be deployed in minutes and track hundreds of reports.
- The solution can track engagement from any platform (Power BI service, Power BI desktop, Power BI mobile, Power BI embedded, Publish to web, Power BI report server).
- No use of custom visuals. The solution uses built-in Power BI building blocks.
- The deployment is super-easy and doesn’t require IT skills.
BI Pixie includes 6 components. The first two are not included in this app, but are available to download when you start the trial.
- "bi-pixie.exe" - An automation that runs on an input folder with your Power BI project files, and instrument your reports.
- A Power BI app that analyzes the usage and engagement levels of your Power BI audience. This app could not be packaged in this app, but you can install it separately to your Power BI tenant.
- "BI Pixie Web Trigger" - A Power Automate cloud flow with a web trigger that tracks the engagement events in your Power BI reports.
- "BI Pixie Web Trigger Inventory" - A Power Automate cloud flow with a web trigger that collects the inventory of the Power BI reports.
- "BI Pixie Events" - A dataverse table that will store the events from the "BI Pixie Web Trigger" cloud flow.
- "BI Pixie Inventory" - A dataverse table that will store the inventory of Power BI reports from the "BI Pixie Web Trigger Inventory" cloud flow.