How to use Power BI on Mac Devices
Power BI is a powerful BI tool, yet doesn’t support Mac devices, sadly.
I was working for a company where 90% of our staff had a MacBook and love it, there was no way for our Data Team to work with Power BI to build out reporting. Then we turned into another tool named Holistics, a cloud-based one.
In this post, I will share with you my experience trying to implement Power BI on Mac devices, hope this would be helpful for you if you are looking for a solution.
Disclaimer: I then fall in love with Holistics, and now I’m working at Holistics.
Our Recommended Solutions
Since Power BI can’t run on a Mac device, here are our recommendations to run Power BI on Macintosh Devices
- Install and run Power BI on a Virtual Machine, then remote to that Virtual Machine
- Install and run Power BI on a PC, then remote to that PC
- Use another alternative BI solution
Power BI’s plan on Mac Devices
To give you a little context about Microsoft’s plan on supporting Power BI on Mac devices, they are not considering developing Power BI desktop for Mac devices anytime soon.
