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Markzolotoy That's an internal application (inward facing for your internal employees) Embedded licensing terms of service prohibit that deployment method for internal users. Embedded is meant for ISV's building applications for external users (users outside of their organization). This is why the post you refer to is titled: Do I need a power Bi premium licence to embed power BI reports into an internal application? Emphasis added.
Yes, you will need 1 Pro license to essentially "share" the embedded report content.
I feel all of this was very clearly explained in Power BI Licensing in Pictures - Updated.
Embedded is a usage based option for Power BI and is specifically designed for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to allow Power BI reports and visuals to be embedded in custom, external facing web applications. Publishers require a Pro license at $9.99/month and capacity starts at $1/hour. There are six A SKU's and they get progressively more expensive. Each level essentially doubles the price of the previous level and tops out at the A6 SKU for around $32/hour. The terms of service for Embedded dictate that this is only for viewing outside of one’s organization and cannot be used for internal viewing of reports. In other words, this is not intended to be a low cost way to share reports and not require a Pro license for everyone.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-paginated-reports-customers
Greg_Deckler I am reading this:
and very confused.
Markzolotoy That's an internal application (inward facing for your internal employees) Embedded licensing terms of service prohibit that deployment method for internal users. Embedded is meant for ISV's building applications for external users (users outside of their organization). This is why the post you refer to is titled: Do I need a power Bi premium licence to embed power BI reports into an internal application? Emphasis added.
Yes, you will need 1 Pro license to essentially "share" the embedded report content.
I feel all of this was very clearly explained in Power BI Licensing in Pictures - Updated.
Embedded is a usage based option for Power BI and is specifically designed for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to allow Power BI reports and visuals to be embedded in custom, external facing web applications. Publishers require a Pro license at $9.99/month and capacity starts at $1/hour. There are six A SKU's and they get progressively more expensive. Each level essentially doubles the price of the previous level and tops out at the A6 SKU for around $32/hour. The terms of service for Embedded dictate that this is only for viewing outside of one’s organization and cannot be used for internal viewing of reports. In other words, this is not intended to be a low cost way to share reports and not require a Pro license for everyone.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-paginated-reports-customers
Greg_Deckler I see. I think I am starting understanding the embedded concept. Let me make sure I am heading into the right direction. Customers will be installing our software on prem as they do today. They will see reports and other visuals within our applications not even knowig it's a totally new technology. Ok, fine. But what about phones and and other small devices to see the reports? we do not have a mobile version of our application. Will the customers be able to navigate to these reports on the cloud?
Thanks
Markzolotoy You would likely want to build a responsive web site for mobile access to the reports or a simple native mobile application that basically just displays the reports. The reports are in the cloud and are available but you need something to present them to customers.