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Power BI Free - What's the Point?
Hi all
Yes, it's a newbie. I've done some work off and on in Power BI about a year ago and always wanted to take it further in my company.
My plan was for a few people to write reports and display them on SharePoint for everyone else. Nice and easy.
So, I have my content creators with Power BI Pro license.
I then have the rest of the company with Power BI free licenses as part of their Office 365 subscription.
But when the content creators create Power BI reports and put them in SharePoint (modern) everyone one needs a Pro license just to see the report.
Am I correct in that or am I missing something. It’s all quite simple excel created reports / data
If this is the case then what’s the point of Power BI free. You can’t do anything with it, not even read shared material. I am not going to pay $10 a month just so someone can read a report.
Is this correct?
Regards
Hi aussie_jock,
If you do not want your report be freely available on the internet, I am afraid you and your colleagues have to purchase the Power BI Pro license to share reports to others.
You could refer to below link:
Regards,
Daniel He
14 Replies
- Thejeswar
Super User
Yes you need to have Power BI Pro license to view the shared content
As far as Power BI Free is concerned, it is just at the level of Power BI Desktop and in Power BI Service, you can view your own workspace which will have your own content...but not the shared items.
Thanks for that. That's what I thought.
So to make Powe BI useful for the entire org I need to spend $10 per month per user.
That's a lot of cash for a reporting tool
