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8 years ago
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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 d...
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Thejeswar
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8 years ago

Anonymous,

Thanks for the info. I was not aware of this URL being discoverable even when published internally

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7 years ago

Hi Thejeswar,

Could you please tell me if your problem has been solved? If it is, could you please mark the helpful replies as Answered?

 

Regards,

Daniel He

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    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    Yep thats exactly how it works.  Licensing is all about sharing and collaboration.  Either each person needs to have a personal license (Pro), or the organisation needs to pay for dedicated capacity for the report consumers(Embeded or Premium).  Pro license is always required for a person doing the development and sharing out, premium just covers the 'consumers' of the report.

     

    Power BI has a free component and Microsoft has drawn the line at collaboration where free becomes paid.

  • Thejeswar's avatar
    Thejeswar
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    7 years ago

    Hi v-danhe-msft,

    I don't think It's my question to accept as solution!!

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    Denismc
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    7 years ago

     

    An old thread, but it seems any user viewing the reports or app needs  a pro licence, I have a pro licence in a small company and without getting everyone a pro licence, they can't view the reports!!! Any help on this would be very much appreciated. They can't view on sharepoint either!

     

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-how-to-collaborate-distribute-dashboards-reports

     

    Distribute insights in an app

    Say you want to distribute your dashboard to a broad audience in your organization. You and your coworkers have created a workspace, then created and refined dashboards, reports, and datasets in the workspace. Now you select the dashboards and reports you want and publish them as an app — either to a group or to your whole organization.

     

    Apps are easy to find and install in the Power BI service (https://powerbi.com). You can send your business users a direct link to the app, or they can search for it in AppSource. If your Power BI administrator gives you permissions, you can install an app automatically in your coworkers' Power BI accounts. Read more about publishing your apps.

    After they install an app, they can view it in their browser or mobile device.

    For your users to view your app, either they need to have a Power BI Pro license, too, or the app needs to be stored in a Power BI Premium capacity. Read What is Power BI Premium? for details.

    You can publish apps to those outside your organization, too. They can view and interact with the app content, but can’t share it with others. Now you can create template apps deploy them to any Power BI customer.

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    Thejeswar
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    7 years ago

    Hi Denismc ,

    As Anonymous  said, If sharing the reports to the consumers and colloborating with them is going to be of more focus, it is better that you go for a capacity where you host the reports. If hands-on might be required for the users, that will require a Pro-license