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I am responsible for the PBI environment at my company and have built a number of reports to different parts of the organisation. All have Power BI Pro licenses and the reports are updated 8 times a day on a schedule.
One of those reports include about 15 different tabs and are used by almost all departments. 55 of the users are fine with only 8 updates a day but the remaining 87 users need updates more frequently. As I understand it a PBI report can be updated 48 times if the users of the report have Premium license.
What would these 8 Premium memberships cost us and how should I structure my reports? Do I have to split my report into to two and convert one of them to a Premium report?
Thanks in advance!
Yes, with PPU consumer should also be reuired to have PPU
Thus you have to create a copy of report to publsih it in PPU workspace where you can refresh it upto 48 times a day
For rest you can keep it in same workspace and keep refreshing as 8 times a day
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- Tutu_in_YYC
Super User
Hi Eriha,
Premium capacity is assigned to your organization, not users. And it starts at ~$6K a month.
Once you have premium capacity, all you need to do is upgrade the workspace to premium, and you can start scheduling your refreshes up to 48 times.- Tutu_in_YYC
Another cheaper option is to use Azure Runbook Automation to call Power BI Rest API to refresh the dataset. No limit, less than $10 a month maybe cheaper.
Requirement : You need Power BI Admin role assign to your account
Power BI Rest API to refresh dataset
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/refresh-dataset-in-groupStart a runbook
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/start-runbooks
- arvindsingh802
Community Champion
Considering your total users I would suggest to go for Premium Per User ($20 per User/Month)
Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI- arvindsingh802
Yes, with PPU consumer should also be reuired to have PPU
Thus you have to create a copy of report to publsih it in PPU workspace where you can refresh it upto 48 times a day
For rest you can keep it in same workspace and keep refreshing as 8 times a day
