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Power BI Report web part for SharePoint Online Discussion
Our organization is a governmental research agency and we use Sharepoint Online to collaborate with dozens of other state and federal agencies, municipalities and other academic institutions. Some of the datasets are large and SPO requires using Power BI for Excel workbooks that exceed 10MB.* We had really hoped the new Web Part would help with our integration issues, but it is a step backwards as it requires a monthly license to even view the content on Sharepoint.
It was a big enough hurdle to collaboration that the our in-house researchers had to sign up for a free license just to continue with their SPO collaboration. To take it a step further and require a Power BI license for viewing the data from a Web Part in SPO is a non-starter. We have no control over whether the viewers can purchase a pro license as we use Sharepoint Online to collaborate with dozens of other state and federal agencies, municipalities and other academic institutions. And these datasets cannot be share to the world so the anonymous web share option is out.
Somebody let me know if I am missing something. At this point, it seems the PowerBI team is undercutting the collaborative features that Sharepoint has at its core and is marketed upon.
webguy It's a good ask to make it easier to share content across organizations. We're tracking this with the following idea: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17485666-azure-b2b-collaboration-add-external-user-to-gro
If your organization has on Office 365 E5 license, internally your users already have the required Power BI Pro license to use the web part.
We have an on-prem SharePoint 2013 solution. Is there any way to incorporate these types of web parts with an on premise install?
