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Arpit1234's avatar
Arpit1234
New Member
10 years ago

Regarding Licensing Clarification on Power BI

We are automating reports using Microsoft Power BI Pro (Trail version) , with trail version I am able to publish the reports ,to all Accenture users    User don’t need to install Power pro trail ve...
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CampAGC's avatar
CampAGC
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago

mitsu - I'm curious how Publish to web will impact this. 

 

I'm currently looking at the pricing options myself, using a trial version of pro and really don't think the consumers on my end need pro capabilities. Most of them are less than skilled at typing, and I'm going to have to do training on how to use the different dashboard components. 

 

If I had Pro, and can publish to web, it would mean anyone (free, pro, or web based) could access without having a Pro License. 

 

I basically need Pro to collaborate properly with the only other person making dashboards at my organization (also having pro) and to manage the AD groups. 

mitsu's avatar
mitsu
Resolver IV
10 years ago

You are correct if you publish to web , you would not need license for the users to consume it . 

 

However  publish to web would makes your data public , and is accesible by every one wh has access to the link . 

 

Also publish to web are not supported on the following data sources . 

 

  1. Reports for groups

  2. Reports that use Direct Query data sources

  3. Reports using real-time data sources.

 

The refresh of the report published on the web takes about an hour to get updated once the report on the web app is refreshed.

 

Link below should help you get more details on the same .

 

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-publish-to-web/

 

Hope this helps .

 

Regards,

Mitsu

  • JPC3's avatar
    JPC3
    Advocate I
    10 years ago

    Hi Mitsu, perhaps my understanding is wrong, but publishing to the app.powerbi.com site does not make your report/dashboard public.  Access to the dashboard and underlying report is controlled by the publisher and can only be granted, currently, within your Office 365 corporate domain.  No-one outside this can access your report and for users within permission must be expicitly granted and can be revoked at any time.

     

    JC

    • mitsu's avatar
      mitsu
      Resolver IV
      10 years ago

      By Publish To web . I meant the 'Publish to web feature in Power BI service'  . Looks like you are referring to the publish to the Power BI service  . If so you should know that for the users to consume the reports created using pro feature , they would need a pro license . 

       

       

      Regards,

      Mitsu

      • trebgatte's avatar
        trebgatte
        Most Valuable Professional
        10 years ago

        If you are interested, I have videos of how you can use your free Power BI license. I made these as a response to a student question in my Power BI class. Demos are sometimes a much more effective way to show the various aspects.

         

        My LMS requires that you have to have a login to access the content. If you sign up for the free course trial here, using the button at the top:  http://academy.tumbleroad.com/courses/project-online-power-bi-dashboards, the last chapter contains all of the content around using the free Power BI license. 

         

        Hope this helps!

        Treb Gatte | Project MVP | Blog | Twitter