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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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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