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guyinazo
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3 years ago
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Trying to understand Premium licensing

I have a few basic questions that I hope can get  some straight forward basic answers.  I have developed Power platform objects for years, including Power BI reports and dashboards.  I am now working...
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  • GilbertQ's avatar
    GilbertQ
    3 years ago

    Hi guyinazo 

     

    Typically premium is used either because more capacity (memory and CPU) is required or it is cheaper to license many free users on the premium capacity.

     

    if the organization has E5 licenses and does not need more than 8 refreshes a day and more than 1GB in dataset size then I would see no reason to go for Premium.

     

    You could also use a Power BI Gateway (which is free for the gateway but you would need a windows server) to automatically refresh the data coming from SQL Server.

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GilbertQ
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3 years ago

Hi guyinazo 

 

Typically premium is used either because more capacity (memory and CPU) is required or it is cheaper to license many free users on the premium capacity.

 

if the organization has E5 licenses and does not need more than 8 refreshes a day and more than 1GB in dataset size then I would see no reason to go for Premium.

 

You could also use a Power BI Gateway (which is free for the gateway but you would need a windows server) to automatically refresh the data coming from SQL Server.