Power BI delivery approaches

Power BI can be fully delivered and managed by corporate BI professionals from data retrieval through visualization and content distribution. Some BI and analytics organizations also adopt hybrid approaches in which different components of Power BI are developed and owned by different teams such as the BI/IT teams providing an optimized data source, its supporting ETL process, and the analytical data model, including its measure definitions, relationships, and data refresh process. Business teams can then leverage these assets in developing Power BI reports and dashboards and optionally Excel reports as well.

As Power BI projects can have widely varying and often overlapping needs (for example, security, data refresh, and scalability) it's important to adopt a process for allocating the appropriate resources and planning for the longer term deployment such as migrating important, relatively mature Power BI datasets to SSAS Tabular.