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Sharing without Pro license
I have exactly the same issue!
Some great work Microsoft did on this application, even with free licenses.
Now... they break the complete license structure and we have to pay x times more.
I would totally agree for the developers to have a Pro account, however if you want to share simple graphs with sr management, you don't want them to login or anything like that.
The value of having simple users with this premium license is totally lost....
Also posted my concerns here because I don't see any solution yet:
Re: What happens with shared dashboards on 1st of June?
Please vote for my idea to make it free again:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19666702-free-license-for-sharing
Such a great tool, just killed due to license. I don't expect this is MS strategy, right?
Anonymous, Microsoft has free sharing using the "publish to web" function. Our problem is that we can't use it because it also allows people to share content on Google and Facebook. We can't let corporate data out into the wild like that.
What I'm looking for is a middle option where "publish to web" works WITHIN my firewall only.
Yup, the publish to WWW is nice, for private use and maybe small business.
And also for short sharing, however having reports which have a weekly update about status should be viewable by multi users for free.
Microsoft can take the license on the real developers, who consume most of the capacity.
It should be noted though, the use of Power BI involves Microsoft hardware performing the calculations and providing the bandwidth for all of the viewers. This isn't 2nd rate hardware and considering Premium is basically leasing your own private equivelent hardware at a rate of $5000K per month, you can start to see what the costs of hardware provisioning. It seems to me that Microsoft wants to offer service with a free component essentially paid for out of the pricing of the paid users. A line in the sand has be to placed somewhere for this cloud service. How fair is it if Free users are the majority of the user base and that cost burden is lumped on the Paid users?
Chances are, in the use case you are proposing, having 1 paid developer and many free consumers would be a system that would be a large cost burden. Microsoft isn't a charity and it is reasonable that they look to a financial model that does have some amount of return. Its also reasonable to expect that if a business is turning a profit in part due to a service they consume, that a cost is associated with that service.
I agree MS is not a charity :)
However, I don't like the fact to deliver first great service for free, get people a carrot in front of them and suddenly change this model.
And my idea contains a max of e.g. 100 free users and I also propose to increase the Pro license; that's manageable and the business case can be easier for lots of companies.
5000,- per month is a huge difference.
If the Pro user would be even 100,- per month I believe it's acceptable.
Or a model 100,- per month and above 100 free users you pay 200,- per month.
Give the choice to the customer, even better: Pro with higher license or indeed like it is now with the premium/pro.
This model is not fit for use as we can read in a lot of posts.
Hi,
At this moment we are experiencing the same problem. We don't seem to have the option to publisch the report to web althought the setting has been set live in the adminstrator mode. Anyone any ideas how we should make use of this setting or is there another place where this option should be set live/be approved?
Thanks in advance for tips/advise.
Best Regads,
Bastiaan