Glossary term
What is Gateway?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Gateway" means: A small program that lets the online service reach data that lives on your own computer or network, so it can refresh. It is taught in Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use. Related terms include Reconcile, Alt text, Drillthrough and Slicer. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Gateway?
A small program that lets the online service reach data that lives on your own computer or network, so it can refresh.
Where is Gateway taught?
Gateway is defined in Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use.
Which terms are related to Gateway?
Next to Gateway in the course glossaries: Reconcile, Alt text, Drillthrough and Slicer.
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Gateway?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Power BI: Build Dashboards People Actually Use: You have access to a Windows computer; no coding or database experience is needed.