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nisaanwaar
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PowerBI Report server Data security adn embedded reports

Hi, We want to use powerbi as our BI solution.
Our organization has critical data so we cant risk sending it to cloud
For on premises solution of powerBI, PBRS i have below questions.
We  will have to buy PowerBI Report server license to host reports on my organization's server. and embed the reports on our website

  • So any number of clients can access the hosted website with embedded reports, right?
  • Or does number of client make any difference to licenses we buy?
  • Can i have one report built for 100 clients, so whichever client opens the report, it will use that client's db from our system?
  • Will powerbi on-premises embedded reports allow me to interact with them? (Filter data, pass values from screen as filters?)
  • Will embedded reports refresh data from database periodically? can i trigger refresh event myself from the website it is embedded in? Or will it show live data?
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Anonymous
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Hi @nisaanwaar ,

For License:

Power BI Report Server is available through two different licenses: Power BI Premium and SQL Server Enterprise Edition with Software Assurance. See Microsoft Volume Licensing for details. With a Power BI Premium license, you can create a hybrid deployment mixing cloud and on-premises.

If you publish Power BI reports to Power BI Report Server, you also need a Power BI Pro license. You don't need a Power BI Pro license to view and interact with Power BI reports on Power BI Report Server.

For share report with others, need set role in the Web Portal.For more details, you can read related document: What is Power BI Report Server? - Power BI | Microsoft Learn, Role definitions - predefined roles - SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) | Microsoft Learn

 

Best regards,
Community Support Team_Binbin Yu
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Thankyou for your rresponse, if i need to share powerbi report server reports on our website which our clients will use, what license would us?
Also, can you please answer rest of the queries as well.

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