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Usually, there are many more report creators than dataset creators. These report creators can exist in any area of the organization. Because self-service report creators often need to quickly produce content, a blended approach allows them to focus on producing reports that support timely decision-making without the additional effort of creating a dataset.

The primary objective is for many report creators to reuse centralized shared datasets. To accomplish that, this scenario focuses on decoupling the model development process from the report creation process.

For simplicity, the scenario diagram depicts just one shared dataset. However, it's not usually practical to model all organizational data in a single dataset.

The other extreme is to create a new dataset for every report, as less experienced content creators often do. The goal of managed self-service BI is to find the right balance, leaning toward relatively few datasets and creating new datasets when it makes sense to do so.

hile reports are maintained by subject matter experts in the business units. However, that's not required. For example, this pattern can be adopted by any content creator that wants to achieve reusability.