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Rahoto and Power BI

Rahoto is automated recurring reporting software that works beside Power BI rather than replacing it: keep Power BI for dashboards and exploration, and use Rahoto to compose the recurring report on the same warehouse data and send it on a schedule. Rahoto does not replace your dashboards or your BI tool.

Dashboards are for the people who open them. The recurring report goes to everyone else.

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  • Beside your BI
  • Same warehouse
  • Designed document
  • Delivered on schedule

Who does what

The dashboard and the report have different jobs

  • Keep in your BI tool

    Exploring live metrics on a screen, ad hoc drill-down and slicing, and the dashboards your analysts maintain.

  • Send with Rahoto

    The recurring document: a designed, paginated report in your brand, built once, refreshed and delivered on a schedule.

  • The same data under both

    Rahoto reads the warehouse your BI reads, such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift, through read-only connections.

  • An edition per audience

    One composition, an edition per client or region, each with its own data and recipients.

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What Rahoto adds

What the recurring report gets

  • Designed pages

    Place text, charts, tables, shapes and images anywhere on the page, with your brand kit.

  • Live figures in sentences

    A number in a sentence can be live, so the words stay true when the data changes.

  • Checked before it goes out

    Before each scheduled issue, Rahoto checks the text against the data. If something material changed, the run waits for your review.

  • Delivered

    Email, Slack, Teams, a web link or embed, webhook, S3, Google Drive and SFTP, as PDF, PowerPoint, PNG or a live web link.

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Limits

What to know before you rely on it

  • Rahoto has no Power BI connector and does not import Power BI reports or dashboards.
  • Rahoto is not a BI tool: it does not replace your semantic layer, your models or the analysis your analysts do there.
  • This page makes no claim about Power BI’s own features; check Microsoft’s documentation.
  • The text check is not a guarantee that a statement is true.

Questions people ask

Does Rahoto replace Power BI?

No. Rahoto publishes on top of the warehouse and semantic layer a team already trusts; it does not replace a BI tool or the analysis that happens there. Keep Power BI for dashboards and exploration.

Does Rahoto connect to Power BI?

No. Rahoto has no Power BI connector. It reads the sources underneath, such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift, so a report and a dashboard can draw on the same data.

When should I use Rahoto rather than a dashboard?

When the output is a recurring document for people who will not open a dashboard: a designed, paginated report in your brand, an edition per audience, checked against the data and delivered on a schedule as PDF, PowerPoint or a live link.

Is Rahoto a dashboard?

No. Dashboards live on a screen for exploration, while Rahoto composes a designed document and delivers it to readers on a schedule.

Does Power BI have its own scheduled or paginated reports?

This page describes Rahoto only. For what Power BI offers, read Microsoft’s own Power BI documentation; we have not tested it for this page.

Keep the dashboards. Automate the report.

Connect the warehouse your BI already reads, design the recurring report once and set the schedule. Start with a 14-day Starter trial, no credit card.

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