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Pro vs. Licensing question
You can take a look at this document. There is a list of Power BI Pro content as below. If the analytic team share Pro content with free users, free users will not be able to see these contents.
- Data from a DirectQuery dataset, such asSQL Server Analysis Services tabular data,Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, or Apache Spark for HDInsight.
- Data from adataset that refreshes more frequently than daily.
- Data from a dataset that connects to on-premises data using thePower BI Gateway - Personal or the On-premises Data Gateway.
- Data (including reports, dashboards or tiles) from a dataset that usesRow-level security (RLS).
- A dashboard or report that's installed from anorganizational content pack.
- A dashboard, report, or dataset that's contained in agroup workspace.
- A dashboard that contains data streamed at a rate above 10k rows/hour.
But if the analytic team only share the content which only contains following items, both pro and free users can see them.
- A dashboard or report connected to content packs for services (e.g. Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, and Google Analytics).
- A dashboard or report with data imported from files such as Excel spreadsheets, Power BI Desktop, and CSV.
- Tiles pinnedfrom a report in SQL Server Reporting Services.
Best Regards,
Herbert
Hello All in this thread.
We have multiple databases where data is read from, we have a small team of power users who extract colate and report from these databases.
We have a couple of hundred consumers of these reports.
From what this thread says, the power users need pro, and because the data would be extracted using a gateway, then the consumers would need Pro not the free version to access these reports.
Is this correct.
NB
All users and consumers reside on one network.
Thanks,
david.
Dsm999 To add. If you have a couple hundred end users, I would find out when your next true-up is with MSFT subscriptions and see if you can negotiate a better rate. For larger implementations, it's highly likely that your cost will drop per license.