I think something needs to be done - Licensing Model The licensing model for the sharing of PowerBI reports to something as simple as a SharePoint page to unlicensed users is overly complicated and presents a huge barrier to entry for small consulting firms. The tool has real value to Office Suite like users, it bridges a gap between these users and the data science guys. The output of this product from the average user can carry real value to businesses and organizations that must employ outside support (contractors/consultants). Here is a stupid solution idea Allow Pro licenses to be assigned to Azure user groups designednated external, kind of like PowerBI connects the PowerBI embedded product. You can apply N number of licenses to the group and it allows access to reports and acts to pool licenses to the assigned group. If a group is underserved, the admin can add a license of Pro. At some point in the process of scaling this solution, it makes sense to upgrade to PowerBI embeded when service levels and cost of licenses exceed the larger cost of PowerBI Embedded. Because a consulting business is always changing, laying out the money for the Embedded product upfront makes PowerBI a terrible choice. I looked at Amazon Quicksite and their model makes more sense in terms of resource allocation, cost and scale. Sadly, this product can't meet my needs and the needs of my consultants like a PowerBI. Not funny but funny I guess if I went with Amazon and used their AI products, I could fire all my consultants, have AI develop output source to support the Quicksite product tied directly to database services (something I really want and is an other added layer of complexity in the PowerBI/Fabic/Azure empire) and deploy and pay as I go?!
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