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May 3 announcement FAQ
If I have a PRO license and have been sharing dashboards with Free users, will those free users no longer be able to access the dashboards that I shared with them as a PRO user? Put another way, going forward on June 1, is the only way to see a dashboard someone else created and shared is to have a PRO license?
dsynan The free users will need to sign up for the Pro Trail.
To answer the second question. There are now two ways they can see it. One, the end users have a Pro license/Trial (As mentioned above). Or, the person sharing the content has a premium license on top of the Pro license, then the end users will be able to see the dashboards as free users.
So, free users now need a Pro account to view shared dashboards.
Power BI Embedded is being merged with Power BI premium. The Premium capacity calculator shows that a single node starts at $4,995 per month. Is the existing Power BI Embedded pricing model, $5 per 100 sessions, going away too? Because if so, you may have just scared off a ton on small businesses.
I'm developing a dashboard to share with a handful of clients (external), up to 100 ideally. None of them need editing capabilties or data access. As of now I can share that with each of them and they can view it for free as long as they have a free Power BI account. That is good for me price wise, but a bit unprofessional it requires a Microsoft account and Microsoft login. So I'm willing to pay for embedded, becuase it might cost me $100-200/month to have the dash/reports embedded in my current website. Much more professional and the cost is manageable.
But now there are two issues I see. If I share the dash, they have to login through Microsoft and pay $10 per month. That is a no go. Even if I were willing to pay the cost for them, which I would be, there is no way for me to manage their accounts to do so and the whole thing would be very unprofessional. If the embedded pricing model changes, I'll have to pay $5k per month for premium so that I can embed my own webapp to share with a few clients. This would kill my business.
Please tell me I am misreading something or that the Power BI embedded pricing model will remain. Otherwise, there is simply no feasible, economic solution to share with a handful of external users. I'll have to find another BI service. Furthermore, in any case, the constant changes to pricing models creates great uncertainty about building a product with Power BI knowing that I, as a small business, could be quickly priced out.
Hi again kbl1726,
Beginning June 1 users consuming shared content will need a Power BI Pro license, or they can be licensed by capacity as part of Power BI Premium when it becomes available late this quarter.The existing Power BI Embedded service will continue to be available for at least 12 months, and you can read more here.We will be introducing additional SKUs for Power BI Premium that target embedded scenarios. While we aren’t disclosing details at this time, our approach is to add further pricing flexibility for embedded scenarios based on the needs of organizations building apps and their customers consuming them.I truly hope you reveal the additional SKUs soon becuase the current all-or-nothing pricing scheme for Premium prices out all but large enterprises.
When you say the current embedded pricing will be be available for another 12 months, does this mean new users can sign up for this SKU for the next 12 months or will it only be available for 12 months for current, already in-place embedded customers? The article you linked suggests the latter. And what happens when you finally revoke the plan fully?
The embedded SKU was great becuase it was scalable to most use cases and enabled small businesses to get into Power BI without massive overhead - I thought that was the point of it and Microsoft's plan to disrupt Tableau and other BI service providers. Until you release info on the new SKUs, there is absolutely no scaling in your new pricing scheme for client facing services. I've already reached out to Qlik and Tableau to get more info on their options. (I really have, I'm not saying this to be dramatic. As someone planning to launch a client-facing, read-only Power BI service in the coming weeks I now have to reevaluate my entire business model, particularly if you are taking away the ability for new signups to the existing embedded SKU at $5 per 100 sessions.)
- I would echo this kills power bi as a small business tools. I also work with multiple small companies where there is a single author. The big issue is dissemination and power bi looked like a solution. Simply sharing a dashboard seems a very low bar to set the pro licence. A higher price for authoring would be more palatable. I'm already paying A pro office licence as poverpivot remains superior to bi tools currently.
So, if I understood you correctly, if a Pro license user wants to share a dashboard with another person, that person will have to have Premium or Pro licenses to view it.
And if the a Pro license user has a Premium license on top of it, he (or she) can share content with Free license users.
Could yo please confirm it?Hi PowerBIUser123,
Beginning June 1 dashboard sharing (and the ability to consume shared content) will be limited to Power BI Pro users. When Power BI Premium becomes generally available late this quarter, a Power BI Pro user publishing to Premium capacity will be able to make that content available to users who aren't individually licensed but are part of the Premium Capacity.
I cannot believe that Microsoft will be deprecating the current incarnation of power bi embedded with a migration plan that includes a minimum spend of $5000 per month on power bi premium! I work for a small company that simply cannot afford to pay $60,000 USD a year for an embedded platform. Can someone please explain how the minimum spent for power bi premium is $60,000 USD a year. I totally understand that large organizations complained that user based licensing got very expensive, but why is Microsoft not considering the SME in the Premium plan especially if embedded is being migrated to this licensing scheme.
