Druva brings its SaaS protection to Power BI

Druva is providing cyber-resilience for Microsoft Power BI with support for Power Apps and Power Automate coming later this year,

The no-code, low-code Microsoft Power Platform enables non-programmers to develop applications, websites, AI agents, analyze data, and automate workflows by using five Power-branded products to handle the software intricacies of dealing with Azure, Dynamics 365, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Teams and myriad other Microsoft services. The five products are Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI (business intelligence), Power Pages (for websites) and Copilot Studio for agents.

Druva CTO Stephen Manley said: “Organizations are moving quickly to use AI in more practical ways across the business, and that makes resilience even more important. Druva helps customers improve visibility and recovery readiness across Microsoft Power Platform, starting with Power BI, so they can reduce risk without slowing innovation.”

According to Druva, Microsoft’s Power Platform is now deeply embedded across the enterprise, with its “AI-powered workflows and assets … now central to modern operations.” This has introduced “new risks when flawed automation, unintended changes, or compromised logic lead to lost, altered, or corrupted data and configurations.”

Its Power Platform protection is designed to provide “cloud-native protection, recovery, and security for the reporting and analytics assets where the impact of AI-driven workflows is often most visible.”

The protection features:

• Looking after Power BI workspaces, reports, dashboards, semantic models, and configurations,
• Granular recovery to restore specific assets faster than entire restorations,
• Air-gapped, immutable backups to defend against ransomware and insider threats,
• Support for long-term retention and regulatory requirements with centralized control,

The Power BI protection forms part of a unified Druva Microsoft protection environment including Active Directory, Dynamics 365, Entra ID, Hyper-V, Microsoft 365, SQL Server, Windows Server and more.

Druva helps preserve the metadata, structure, and relationships behind Power BI assets, using its MetaGraph technology, so recovered reports and dashboards can be restored in useful context.

Microsoft’s own Power BI protection does not feature granular restores and there is no one, simple Power BI backup facility. We understand that Arcserve SaaS Backup, Keepit, and Afi each provides backup and granular restores for Power BI.

Druva support for Microsoft Power BI is now generally available, with support for Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate becoming available later this year.

Read more in a Druva blog.