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On Premis Report Server Licence
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When you buy Power BI Premium, your subscription includes capacity in the cloud for the Power BI service as well as a license to run Power BI Report Server in your own on-premises capacity. If you buy Power BI Premium P1, for example, you get eight virtual cores (“v-Cores”) of capacity in the cloud, plus a license to run Power BI Report Server on up to eight processor cores on-premises.
Alternatively, if you have SQL Server Enterprise with active Software Assurance, you can use your Enterprise per-core licenses to run Power BI Report Server on-premises. (They don’t give you any capacity in the cloud, though.)
Either way you license Power BI Report Server, “publisher” users who publish Power BI reports to the report server for others to access need Power BI Pro licenses, whereas “reader” users who merely view reports don’t need any per-user licenses.
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We develop and sell enterprise aplications to our customers. Some applications include SSRS reports. As a minimum, we require SSRS 2016 Express to run our reports. The users do not create any reports. If we go with Power BI Report server what a pricing model for us and our clients might be? Will they have to buy any license? For now we dont need a cloud service.
Thanks
- riccardomuti8 years agoMicrosoft Employee
Even if the users don't create any reports, your customers would still need to license the report server itself (either via Power BI Premium or via SQL Server Enterprise + Software Assurance).
- Markzolotoy8 years agoImpactful Individual
I see, thanks.