The portal that transforms how your company consumes data
Portal DriveData delivers a centralized layer over your Microsoft Fabric capacity, with a superior user experience, granular governance and a significant cut in licensing costs.
Impact dashboard, Portal DriveData
Three pillars, one portal
Portal DriveData was designed around three strategic axes that answer the main pain points of corporate data teams.
A user-centered experience
A unified, personalized interface that makes consuming Power BI reports easy for every profile, from analyst to executive.
- White-label portal with your company’s branding
- Single sign-on (SSO) via Microsoft Entra ID
- Report catalog with search and favorites
- Responsive interface: desktop, tablet and mobile
- Guided onboarding and in-app contextual support
Control, audit and compliance
Granular governance over who accesses what, when and how, with full traceability for privacy law, internal audits and certifications.
- Access control by profile, group and workspace
- Complete audit log (who, what, when)
- Access expiration and review policies
- Law 25 / PIPEDA compliance with sensitive-data masking
- Suspicious-access alerts and compliance reports
Real cost reduction with Fabric
Eliminate unnecessary individual Power BI licenses by leveraging the Fabric capacity you already pay for to serve every report consumer.
- Free users access reports through Fabric capacity
- Up to 80% savings on Power BI Pro/PPU licenses
- Usage reporting for continuous capacity optimization
- Measurable ROI from the first month
- Scale with no additional per-user cost
From Fabric capacity to the end user
Portal DriveData acts as an intelligent layer between your Microsoft Fabric capacity and data consumers, simplifying access, applying governance and reducing cost automatically.
Fabric Capacity
Your existing Microsoft Fabric capacity (F-SKU or P-SKU) serves as the processing and rendering base.
Portal DriveData
The portal manages identities, permissions, the report catalog and access traceability in a single layer.
Policies & Governance
Access rules, audit and compliance are applied automatically, with no manual work from the IT team.
End User
Employees access reports with SSO login, without needing an individual Power BI Pro license.
See the Portal in action
A quick tour of the DriveData Portal running on Microsoft Fabric capacity: governance, embedded reports and cost control in practice.
Built on Microsoft Fabric
Portal DriveData integrates natively with the Microsoft ecosystem, using the official Fabric and Power BI APIs to ensure security, reliability and compliance.
Microsoft Fabric capacity
F-SKU or P-SKU as the base for processing and rendering reports.
Official Fabric & Power BI APIs
Native embed and authentication through Microsoft-supported APIs, no workarounds.
Portal DriveData layer
Identities, permissions, catalog, governance policies and audit log.
User experience
Entra ID SSO, embedded reports, searchable catalog and mobile/PWA access.
Everything the portal delivers
Capabilities organized by the three pillars, covering experience, governance and savings end to end.
Native Power BI & Fabric embed
Power BI reports and Fabric visuals rendered directly in the portal via the official embed API, with no redirects or context switches.
Mobile-first experience
Fully responsive interface with touch-gesture support, small-screen optimization and an optional PWA for on-device installation.
Frictionless SSO login
Native Microsoft Entra ID integration for single sign-on. Users log in with the same corporate credentials.
Executive adoption panel
Internal dashboard showing the most-accessed reports, session time, engagement by department and usage trends.
Calculate your real savings
See how much your company can save by replacing individual Power BI Pro licenses with the Fabric capacity model plus Portal DriveData.
Estimated monthly savings
CA$ 1,819
67% off · CA$ 21,832 per year
Your scenario
How many people only consume reports (do not create).
CA$ per user/month. Market price for your country, adjust it to your contract.
★ Recommended for 200 users, the most common in mid-size companies.
1-year commitment, on 24/7, ~41% discount.
Break-even
The capacity costs the same with 10 or 10,000 users. Above 67 users it is already cheaper than the licenses.
Calculation basis: Fabric capacity at US$ 0.18 per CU/hour in East US (+6% in Canada Central), 1-year reserved with ~41% discount, converted at CA$ 1,37 per dollar. Reference values for simulation. Real savings depend on the SKU, usage volume and your current Microsoft agreement.
Portal DriveData vs. the traditional model
| Traditional Power BI model | Portal DriveData + Fabric | |
|---|---|---|
| License per consuming user | Power BI Pro required | Free license is enough |
| Cost as users scale | Grows linearly with headcount | Fixed by Fabric capacity |
| Granular access control | Limited to workspaces and apps | By user, group, report |
| Detailed audit log | Basic Activity Log (Office 365) | Complete and exportable |
| Custom branding | Standard Microsoft interface | Full white-label |
| Integrated SSO | Partial (requires Microsoft account) | Native Entra ID |
| Searchable report catalog | Just a list of apps | Search, tags and favorites |
| Law 25 / GDPR compliance | Manual, no native support | Masking and reports |
| Usage and ROI monitoring | Basic Capacity Metrics | Full executive dashboard |
| Optimized mobile access | Generic Power BI Mobile app | Responsive white-label PWA |
Results that speak for themselves
Portal DriveData is used by organizations across sectors that sought governance, a better user experience and lower Power BI licensing costs.
Compatible with
Quick to install, done our way
Installation runs in your own Microsoft environment, with our team by your side. Nothing is installed on end users’ machines.
How we install
Prerequisites
- Active Microsoft / Azure tenant
- Global Admin permission
- Published Power BI workspace
- Power BI Pro, Premium, Fabric or Embedded license
What we set up
- App registration (Entra ID)We create the app and service principal that securely connect the portal to your Power BI.
- Fabric capacityAssigning the capacity (F2 to F64) to the workspace that will serve the reports.
- Power BI AdminEnabling the embedding settings and linking the workspace to the access group.
- Portal livePublishing the portal with per-user access control, ready to use.
Frequently asked questions
What companies most often ask before getting started.
Yes. The portal uses Power BI Embedded’s official App Owns Data model, within Microsoft’s licensing terms.
No. Everything runs in your Microsoft environment and in the browser. There is no software to install on users’ computers.
On average 1 to 2 business days, depending on your environment. Our team supports the whole process.
Yes. You have DriveData’s support for evolution, adjustments and new needs.
With Microsoft Fabric (F2 to F64), Power BI Premium and Power BI Embedded.
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