UPDATE POWER BI DESKTOP VERSION UPDATE

My goal is not to convince someone to use or not use custom visuals or to limit their choice to certified visuals. While this could be true from a вЂњsecurityвЂќ standpoint, this is not true in terms of business continuity. There is a common misperception that certified custom visuals are вЂњsaferвЂќ than non-certified visuals. There are many topics in this area worth discussing, but I wanted to write an article about the specific issue of how custom visuals can be deployed and updated within a company. Still, I keep the вЂњcustom visualвЂќ definition in many parts of this article when I want to specifically talk about visuals built by vendors other than Microsoft.

Microsoft no longer calls these visuals вЂњcustom visualsвЂќ, now they are only вЂњvisualsвЂќ. Over the last few years, I have seen the evolution of the Power BI platform and how custom visuals have been adopted by the market. You could say I am the Product Manager of the OKViz custom visuals, because I define the requirements and discuss the features that are implemented although I do not write the actual code вЂ“ I get my coding fun from contributing to other tools such as DAX Studio and DAX Formatter. I have been working with Power BI Custom Visuals since 2015.

UPDATE POWER BI DESKTOP VERSION UPDATE

This article describes different techniques to update Power BI custom visuals in existing reports, and then compares certified and non-certified Power BI visuals considering security and business continuity aspects.

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