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lindab
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10 years ago
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Power BI in China

I understand that Power BI is not available in China, as well as a few other countries.  Does anyone have a suggestion/workaround for sharing info with team members located in those countries?  Thanks!

  • haydnr's avatar
    haydnr
    10 years ago

    Power BI is not currently available for sale in China. If you are part of an organization that has purchased Power BI somewhere else in the world and happen to have users in China (e.g. employees travelling in China) they will be able to use the Power BI service delivered by the tenant hosted outside China. We hope to release Power BI in China in the future. We have no timing to share at this time.

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  • TePe's avatar
    TePe
    Icon for Helper IV rankHelper IV
    10 years ago

    So what does it mean "not available"? Is the service blocked? Does that mean that a dashboard I creat i.e. in Germany isn't visible to users in China even if they work for a German company?

    • haydnr's avatar
      haydnr
      Icon for Power BI Team rankPower BI Team
      10 years ago

      Power BI is not currently available for sale in China. If you are part of an organization that has purchased Power BI somewhere else in the world and happen to have users in China (e.g. employees travelling in China) they will be able to use the Power BI service delivered by the tenant hosted outside China. We hope to release Power BI in China in the future. We have no timing to share at this time.

      • kevhav's avatar
        kevhav
        Icon for Continued Contributor rankContinued Contributor
        10 years ago

        Hi haydnr, could you please elaborate a little more?

         

        We have Office 365 E5 licenses, purchased in the US, and the "Power BI Pro" license is a component of an O365 E5 license. Our company also has locations, and users, in China.

         

        We are planning to use Power BI, with Power BI Pro features. We would like for our users based in China to be able to access those reports in the Power BI service.

         

        But we just discovered that we cannot assign an Office 365 E5 license to a user having region = China, unless we toggle off the "Power BI Pro" component license. Presumably, beacuse "Power BI Is not currently available for sale in China" -- right?

         

        So, for now, how would a user based in China be able to use the Power BI service, to view reports/dashboards that I create here in the US (with Power BI Pro features)?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    I would like to jump on this as well. Our company is evaluating its BI strategy and China rollout will be a show stopper for us as well. Any update on release?

    BTW. How can this issue be marked as solved when it clearly isn't.