Power BI Lite License

[pbiideas1]

Power BI should have a Lite License for people that only consume dashboards or reports every now and then. This is for people that don't create reports but need to see the dashboards and may need to use the "report level" to be able to export output to PowerPoint (since you can't export the dashboard to PowerPoint but can only do it at Report level).

[cparker1]

'@Anonymous Something tells me that you not wanting to know about another SKU might not be a good reason to dislike this idea. I don't know. Maybe that's just me.

[anthony_newell]

Very pleased to see others on to this. I felt so strongly on the matter it warranted an entire article so please add your support as I know its getting the required visibility : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-power-bi-how-latecomers-party-can-still-grab-anthony-newell

[pbiideas1]

Builders should use powerbi pro. Viewers should use a office 365 subscription with pbi lite version!!

[rudy_cortembert]

Is Microsoft willing to kill the Golden Goose? 🙂

[FarmerJ]

We cannot enforce pro licences on our external consumers to occasionally consume our dashboards and premium is too costly at the moment for what we need and afford - premium may be an option to scale to later but not yet. We need this or a way to allow external users access the power bi reports server without an ad account but an office 365 account instead. MS - please advise as we may need to rethink our strategy

[jdzwart]

'@anthony Totally agree with your article! Power BI could be the new excell for everyday users but hte current unability to show and share the magic is holding it back

[leslieangelia]

We need to be able to share dashboards with our clients without them needing a pro account in order to make this product really useful to us as an organization. The premium account model is built for a much larger organization - we are a small business with 25 staff and roughly 100 client individuals that would need access at the client/viewer level to these reports over the course of the year. In addition to the complication of the current pricing model, having to require our clients to create a Power BI account in the first place just to view their dashboard was already something that we were getting some pushback on.

[gordon7]

Really need this. We have developed various dashboards for customers but they now require a Pro License just to view them. At £10 p/m per user this prices it out - will now have to look elsewhere - shame, really liked the product.

[kevhav1]

Agree. We are a SME, with about 30-50 Power BI content creators, plus a few hundred content consumers. The "1 GB per dataset" limit on the Power BI Service is very limiting! Also, more than 8 scheduled refreshes per day would be a big improvement for us. So, I was excited to hear about Premium capacity...but then very disappointed to find that the cost for just a single "P1 node" is WAY beyond our budget. Help!

[gabriel_grunber]

Personaly I don't really care if the price is lower or not (but would be nice ofcourse), but we critically need a "read but not write and not download and not manipulate" license/setting.