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Pro license problems
well I'm definitely not from Microsoft - - but in the upper left of the screen where there is the window dot matrix icon (not sure the correct term for that....) press that and go into the Admin area - - - in there you buy your licenses.
but having said that - - if your organization is already into the O365 / SharePoint Online - then you would have an administrator of that already - - and they should add PBI licenses for the appropriate users....
Hey Chaba,
thank you for your responce. You are correct. I am not an IT admin, I am a mere analyst who creates reports for the upper management. My company has O365 and Sharepoint. And I tried your suggestion - probably becasue I am not an admin , it didnt work. As I mentined, I dont know if microsoft realises, with changes like these, how many people they are agrevating. I took the time to dig into the forum, seems I am not the only unhappy camper and ther are a ton of people not happy with the new licensing rules. I really hope they change that pretty soon otherwise PowerBI will go in history as bigger flop than WIndows Vista.
It makes total sence to me to ask for a lisence for the developer of the reports, but license for every user in the company?!?!? We are 20k+ large company, not to mention contarctors etc. - that will be insane. I am way better of using Lumera or SAP BW/BI or Webi. Even creating excel report would be better - sure it is not that shiny and interactive, but I can put it on one-drive or sharepoint and everybody can see it.
And even if we eventually get PowerBI, our IT is working on the licensing thing, it will take months. By that point management will be already - "yeah that thing didn't work before, it is not reliable" and we'll just move on. People just dont have time to play bite and switch games.
I relly liked PowerBI, but with their polices they will kill it before it even is able to shine.
//End of rant :D:D:D
I would suggest you investigate the feature of embedding a dashboard within SharePoint/O365.
I did, same issue, cant see without premium (pro) license. ohterwiese I created sharepoint pages - looks beatiful. Anyway, my IT is working with MS to get us the whole deal. I am just so pissed at Microsoft right now. I wish I never used PowerBI and showcasted it to management. Sould've sticked to Lumira. At least SAP is working as expected.
But lesson learned - never trust Microsoft.
Thank you for the suggestions though. Appreciate it.