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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
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 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.