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Best practise for freelancing
Hi there!
I have been lucky enough to gain exposure to Power BI through my current organisation. This had led to an idea of freelancing Power BI as a side business to help out in decision making for small-medium businesses through the power of data visualisation.
My challenge is working out what the best process would be in terms of connecting, creating, and publishing reports to the small business client. From my understanding, I would also need to have Power BI Pro installed (I currently have Office 365 Home, can Power BI Pro be linked to my Office 365 Home account?) So far, my thinking process is the following:
1. Sign the client up to Power Bi Pro to enable collaboration
2. Connect to the clients data source using a connector
3. Create the report from my end using Power BI Desktop
4. Publish the report to the cloud
5. Share with the client so they can view/interact with the report on their tablet/mobile device
Do you foresee any challenges I may run into with the above process? I would also appreciate any guidence or advice on setting up this process.
Thank you,
Rhys
- Hi there I am sure that this can certainly be done
The only caveat is that if you are working with clients data, are you going to host their data in your Power BI tenant?
If you are then you would need to provision for a Power BI Pro license for the customer.
if you are going to be in their tenant (which might very often be the case, then you would need a login, into their Power BI tenant to be able to upload the PBIX files to their Power BI Service.
I would have a good think about that, and then the other parts should fall into place over time.
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- Hi there I am sure that this can certainly be done
The only caveat is that if you are working with clients data, are you going to host their data in your Power BI tenant?
If you are then you would need to provision for a Power BI Pro license for the customer.
if you are going to be in their tenant (which might very often be the case, then you would need a login, into their Power BI tenant to be able to upload the PBIX files to their Power BI Service.
I would have a good think about that, and then the other parts should fall into place over time.Hi GilbertQ,
Thank you for your assistence.
Thinking out loud, I believe the latter would be the best option majority of the time. Is this an easy enough process to follow? Perhaps you have a link with instructions?
Thanks again,
- Hi there
I do not have a link with any instructions as each situation will be different. It would depend on your clients and how you interact with them.
These words exactly. I'm in the exact same sotuation and I'm also considering doing pbi freelance gigs. But I'm also an admin on my org so it's part of my job to understand a bit of licensing.
My guess is that a premium license (either premium per user or regular premium which I think works per tenant) would allow u to publish reports that can be consumed by users with free pbi licenses.
These licenses are expensive but they are also very powerful
