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Embedded or Pro? Starting Power BI for customers
Hi houba139 ,
According to your statement, you create Power BI reports for customers now is to connect through Remote desktop to customers application server, install Power BI Desktop there and connect to database, create reports and publish them to their Power BI Service account, and install Gateway. I think it's a good way to do it, but it's not convenient. You need to connect to your customer's remote desktop for each maintenance.
Here I'll give you a closer look at Power BI Pro and Power BI Embed.
If you use Power BI Pro, you can share your report to your end user. However, your end user also need Pro license to see the report, you shared with them. If your report is in P SKU Premium Capacity, though your end users are free user, they could see your report.
For reference: What is Power BI Premium?
There are two kind Power BI Embeds, Embed for your customers or Embed for your organization.
Embed for your organiztion(user owns data) :
The embed for your organization solution allows you to build an app that requires signing in using Power BI credentials. Once signed in users can only consume embedded content, they have access to on Power BI service. This solution is aimed at large organizations that are building an app for internal users.
The embed for your customers solution allows you to build an app that uses non-interactive authentication against Power BI. Your customers are likely to be external users, and they don't need to sign in using Power BI credentials to view the embedded content.
You can select the embed method based on your requirement.
You can refer to this offical blog to learn which capacity you need to get for Power BI Embed.
For reference: Which SKU should I use?
A SKUs require no time commitment, and are billed hourly.
For reference: Purchase Power BI Premium for testing
I hope this could help you to solve your problem.
Best Regards,
Rico ZhouIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Hi houba139 ,
According to your statement, you create Power BI reports for customers now is to connect through Remote desktop to customers application server, install Power BI Desktop there and connect to database, create reports and publish them to their Power BI Service account, and install Gateway. I think it's a good way to do it, but it's not convenient. You need to connect to your customer's remote desktop for each maintenance.
Here I'll give you a closer look at Power BI Pro and Power BI Embed.
If you use Power BI Pro, you can share your report to your end user. However, your end user also need Pro license to see the report, you shared with them. If your report is in P SKU Premium Capacity, though your end users are free user, they could see your report.
For reference: What is Power BI Premium?
There are two kind Power BI Embeds, Embed for your customers or Embed for your organization.
Embed for your organiztion(user owns data) :
The embed for your organization solution allows you to build an app that requires signing in using Power BI credentials. Once signed in users can only consume embedded content, they have access to on Power BI service. This solution is aimed at large organizations that are building an app for internal users.
The embed for your customers solution allows you to build an app that uses non-interactive authentication against Power BI. Your customers are likely to be external users, and they don't need to sign in using Power BI credentials to view the embedded content.
You can select the embed method based on your requirement.
You can refer to this offical blog to learn which capacity you need to get for Power BI Embed.
For reference: Which SKU should I use?
A SKUs require no time commitment, and are billed hourly.
For reference: Purchase Power BI Premium for testing
I hope this could help you to solve your problem.
Best Regards,
Rico Zhou
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.