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Ajay's avatar
Ajay
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9 years ago

Fixes to Power BI Pro License Required Dialogs

A Power BI Pro license is required to view dashboards or reports that contain Pro content. In some cases, our enforcement of this licensing logic caused confusion about whether content was Pro or not...
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mim's avatar
mim
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9 years ago

friends, the damage is done, maybe we need to start asking what's the alternative.

maybe the best solution is the old school solution  SQL server/Tabular and Excel as a front end, unless you want a mobile solution ?

Tableau desktop is very competitive too, 1 license for developper, unlimited viewers ?

djnww's avatar
djnww
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9 years ago

Hi mim,

 

Do you realise that Tableau server is significantly more expensive ? I did costing for 300 users. Power BI will cost us $50k p/yr for PREMIUM, which is scalable up to about 1600 users.

 

Tableau, on the other hand, is about $400k for 300 users. Not sure how much they charge for 1600 users. Ongoing fees are 20% each year. Also, Tableau is not an Enterprise reporting solution. It's standalone and doesn't integrate with Microsoft (Azure, Office, Dynamics, Sharepoint etc) products like Power BI can.

 

I am not defending Microsoft. I am upset with the changes myself because. I have done a lot of due diligence and tested many products before hand.