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How many user subscriptions do we need?
Hi sparker22 ,
If the report or dashboard is not hosted in Premium capacity, you can still subscribe others using their individual email addresses, but they too must have Power BI Pro licenses.
So there's two plans.
Plan A: One pro license per user and no need to by Power BI Premium.
Plan B: Two pro license for the creators, and Power BI Premium to store the report and dashboard you want to share.
Best Regards,
Jay
Hello. I would like to say a few words about the general strategy that Microsoft follows when it comes to the policy of licensing fees and the use of publication resources in Power BI.
Users, especially from small and medium-sized enterprises, are surprised that even though they have purchased a premium per user license, they do not really have access to premium resources when it comes to the ability to share reports created in Power BI.
Restrictions apply to many levels.
For example, if you want to publish your report to a small group of users using the API on your website, it turns out that even though you have purchased a premium Power BI user license, you also have to pay a lot of money to publish your report to, say, 10 users. This often means that small companies cannot afford to use Power BI. Microsoft's imperial policy is focused on maximum profit! You will pay for everything. Theoretically, you can use the capacity by buying more perium licenses per Power BI user, but the description of how it really works in practice is so vaguely written that a normal person is not able to understand this gibberish from Microsoft
That's why premium is recommended for 500+ users in a company
This has nothing to do with the problem.
A small company that wants to create reports in Power BI and make its work available to a small group of clients is forced to pay money inadequate to the profits to the Microsoft concern. This policy of imperial profit at any cost is not very fair to say the least.Not only that, all the documentation you need to read to understand how the API works with Power BI premium for the user - it's one headache! And that's what Microsoft is all about, making people pay horrendous amounts of money
Chosing Premium vs Pro should be part of a business analysis before engaging in either one.
At the end it should the user's decision regardless who is going to make money over what...
Sorry I am not defending MSFT, but that's how it is for all big companies when they have the monopole.
