Types of Gateway in Power BI

Personal Gateway

Power BI personal gateway is a tool that enables users to refresh their on-premises data in Power BI. It connects to a variety of data sources and allows users to schedule automatic data to refresh in the Power BI service. This is useful when you want to keep your Power BI reports and dashboards up-to-date with the latest data from your on-premises data sources.

Data Management Gateway

Data Management Gateway (previously known as On-Premises Data Gateway) is a tool that allows users to connect to on-premises data sources and perform data integration, ETL (extract, transform, and load), and data mashup. It can be used with Power BI, Power Automate (previously known as Microsoft Flow), Azure Logic Apps, and other services that require access to on-premises data.

In Power BI, a gateway is a software component that enables secure and seamless data connectivity between Power BI and on-premises data sources. A gateway acts as a bridge between the cloud-based Power BI service and on-premises data sources, allowing you to use Power BI to access and visualize data that is stored on-premises. We may need to use a gateway in Power BI if we want to access on-premises data sources from Power BI or if we want to use Power BI to create live connections to on-premises data sources. Some common scenarios where a gateway may be required include:

• When we want to use Power BI to access and visualize data that is stored in an on-premises database or data warehouse.
• When we want to use Power BI to create real-time dashboards and reports that are powered by on-premises data.
• When we want to use Power BI to schedule automatic data to refresh for on-premises data sources.

A gateway is required in Power BI when you want to access or visualize on-premises data sources from the Power BI service. It allows you to securely and seamlessly connect to on-premises data sources and use Power BI to access and visualize the data.