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Power BI Licensing
Hi beaconfbb,
Below you'll find some clarification on your questions:
- Power BI Free licences are free for all users regardless of office 365 subscriptions. Power BI Pro licences are included in the Office 365 E5 licence, not in other licences
- The cost of one Power BI pro licence is 9.99 dollar.
- within Power BI there are only Free and Pro licences, no developer licences. all users who you will be sharing reports with will require a Pro licence (The rule of thumb is that you can use a free licence to develop all your content, but when you want to share that content with other users you will require a pro licence). If 800+ users will require access it might also be worth looking into Power BI premium, this is an alternative to a Pro licence where you do not need to buy a licence per user
More details can be found at: Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI
Best regards,
Tim
You are talking about 2 things at the same time:
This here
Is an URL that can be shared with anyone no fees related except your Pro License. They can ONLY view the report.
Now to make changes on a report in any one's desktop, that anyone needs to have access to what is called the Dataset of the report. For this the persone who is going to have access to the Dataset, there is 2 Options
- Pro license for who ever is going to have and access the dataset
- Without a pro license you can send the Pibx file of the report to the person who wants to make changes on the report, but this would need a hassle.
Let me know if you need more details
Hi Amine,
A big security sidenote here is that all reports that are published through the "publish to web" option have no security and can be viewed by everyone outside the organization as well, not only the 800 authorized viewers inside the organization. So this method would only be valid if the used data is meant for public view.
Regards,
Tim
Thanks a lot Amine and Tim. Thanks for the suggestions. We have multiple data sources and so far we have been using Excel and now want to move either to Power BI or Tableau. All your points make sense . I will update here tomorrow once i talk to my team and the other stake holders. Once again thank you all for the time and suggestions. Greatly appreciate it.
I totaly agree, but that would be his choice.
My point was, before jumping on purchasing licenses that would waste money he needs to set up a strategy on how and who is going to use the dataset, dashboard, reports, workspace, App.... 3 Developpers and 800 users or viewers is in itself a project that needs to be set up the right way from the get going.
There is too much to learn about Power Bi so going step by step could save you Time and Money
Thanks everyone.
