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rdavis6
Advocate I
9 years ago

Sharing without Pro license

I need to share dashboards and/or reports within my organization. I'd love to be able to post them to an Office 365 SharePoint site. We can't use "Publish to Web" because of security concerns. Appare...
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rdavis6
Advocate I
9 years ago

I don't have a problem with Microsoft needing to turn a profit. But I do have a problem with the fact that we adopted PBI as the corporate strategy under one pricing model and are now suddenly being told that model no longer applies. So we're in the process of adopting the technology, the business is throwing thousands and thousands of dollars into training people only to be told that to implement it the way it was originally promised will quadruple our monthly costs.

 

All I want is to be able to disable external sharing just like in SharePoint and OneDrive and everything else. Don't let people share stuff outside our tenant.

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Anonymous
Not applicable
9 years ago

Consider a counter point, which i can't suggest is the real situation but a scenario that is plausible.  What is Microsoft supposed to do if they created a Power BI Software as a Service model, like they did originally, but found they had miscalculated how that model would be taken up by the community.  This miscalculation meant that the cost of running Power BI, as is, was at a tremendous loss.  Next, Microsoft was able to see that the platform was growing in popularity and thus the loss would only continue to grow.

 

So what options do they have in that situation? Do they just shut up shop or do they make changes to the licensing in a way that ensures the program can continue?

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    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    I agree with you.  I definately think there needs to be a license level between Free and Pro.  Personally i'd change Pro to be "Writer" and have a viewer level called "Consumer"

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    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    I agree with all of you and indeed; MSis not a charity :)

     

    However; I am giving now access to viewers with full PRO access, that means all functions, but they don't use it.

    I really would be OK with:

    - Pro for developer (me) of a higer rate than 10,- p/m e.g. 50,- who is able to share for 100 users for free

    - A very Light version for e.g. 2,- p/m even, however this should be veruy simple and not the complex premium approach.

     

    The difference is too big and you know we're human, so resistance to change happens a lot :)