PowerBI Strategy for SaaS embedding - Recommendations for where to get help

[benjiehanson]

Greetings all!

We are testing PowerBI with the intent of embedding into our SaaS solution.  Today we use Tibco Spotfire.  Its tough to get attention from Microsoft on this and I am not sure what type of consulting firm would be ideal for this evaluation of capabilities, design, and selection of items such as PowerBI premium vs Embed.  Who has acutually done a good job to embedding PowerBI into a SaaS solution etc....   Any help or reccomendations is appreciated on these topic!!  Thanks

[V-lianl-msft · Accepted solution]

Power BI Premium is capacity geared toward enterprises who want a complete BI solution that provides a single view of its organization, partners, customers, and suppliers. Power BI Premium helps your organization make decisions. Power BI Premium is a SaaS product that allows users to consume content through mobile apps, internally developed apps, or at the Power BI portal.

Power BI Embedded is for ISVs who want to embed visuals into their applications. Power BI Embedded helps your customers make decisions because Power BI Embedded is for application developers, customers of that application can consume content stored on Power BI Embedded capacity, including anyone inside or outside the organization. You can't share Power BI Embedded capacity content through one-click publish to Web or one-click publish to SharePoint.

Power BI Embedded capacity (a.k.a. A SKUs) is billed hourly, can be purchased hourly, and can be paused – meaning no long-term commitments to a specific capacity. Power BI Premium (a.k.a. EM and P SKUs) are billed monthly, has annual commitment (i.e. you can't buy it for a month or two) and can't be paused. Premium also comes with more capacity workloads attached to it (like AI (Cognitive Services), Dataflows, and Paginated reports, etc., while Dataset workload is supported in all), most important with Premium readers doesn't need Pro licenses, while the corresponding Embedded SKUs (A4+) will not give you that.

You may also take a look at:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embedded-faq 

[benjiehanson]

Many thanks for the time.  I understand the basic capabilities, what I don't have a grasp on is:  Is it a reasonable and accepted practice to embed (perhaps I am using the wrong term) PowerBI into our SaaS product.  We have 2 Premium lisc for each Datacenter in use.  But the performance, workspace, deployment, and usability is not very good.  If I were a microsoft salesperson I would want to provide references and examples of how this is effectivly done (not detailed solutions)   While I have no issue paying a consultancy I am having a challenge finding a firm that has done what we are doing.  Thus, is this the right solution??

[V-lianl-msft]

Premium may be more suitable for you. Because the forum can't send some private information, you can seek further help for specific cases, such ashttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-support-options