Forum Discussion
May 3 announcement FAQ
About Power BI Premium, I'd like a few clarifications.
- Moving forward Power BI Premium will be the way for us to get Power BI functionality embedded into our SaaS applications, right?
- I read that Power BI Premium will have support for on-premise gateway, which has been promised for months for Power BI Embedded. I am assuming that while existing Power BI Embedded deployments will keep being supported, this does not mean that will get support for on-premise data, since Microsoft would expect us to move to Power BI Premium.
- I did a calculation using the pricing calculator and the SKU for Power BI Premium starts at ALMOST 5,000 (five thousand) dollars a month -- which is a significant increase (I'd say prohibitive) when comparing to Power BI Embedded.
- So to sum up (and please correct me if I am wrong), for those of us who have been waiting over a year to get Power BI Embedded finally working with on-premise data, am I right to say that if we want such feature moving forward, we will have to get into Power BI Premium paying at least 5,000 (FIVE THOUSAND) dollars a month (give or take)?
Hello pmdci,
Yes, embedding Power BI in apps will be licensed through Power BI Premium moving forward. Support for on-premises data will be available as part of Power BI Premium. Note 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.
MiguelMartinez wrote:Hello pmdci,
Yes, embedding Power BI in apps will be licensed through Power BI Premium moving forward. Support for on-premises data will be available as part of Power BI Premium. Note 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.
Can I ask that the further pricing flexibility and additional SKUs for embedded are announced as soon as possible, or that some indication be given on when the announcement will take place? I don't wish to seem impatient, but so far the only thing we have in writing for embedded is that the cost will be more than £3100 per month. Whilst I appreciate that from what you are saying it will be less than that in reality, the fact that we have no idea at all what to say to our existing clients using Embedded is not helping us at the moment. We certainly have no possibility of starting any new work using Embedded until we can tell clients what the pricing will be.
This could be really good news for embedded applications, but it's got many people too worried at the moment to focus on that!
Duncan
