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dilumd
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9 years ago
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new power bi licensing

Dear Friends,   Today I have got an e-mail from MS Power BI which says that “changes to Power BI free licensing”. Under this new licensing policy, Do we have to have Power BI pro version to share...
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  • GilbertQ's avatar
    GilbertQ
    9 years ago

    Hi dilumd

     

    Here are my answers to your questions

     

    1. Going forward you will have to have Power BI Pro to share dashboards. If you use the Free Version you are still able to publish to the Power BI Service, but you will not be able to share it with anyone.
    2. Going forward if you want to share the recipients of your dashboards will have to have the Pro or Premium licensing enabled.
    3. Under free they are going to give it the same capabilites as the Pro version, with one BIG change that there will be no sharing.
    4. For any access to viewing other peoples dashboards you will require the Pro or Premium licenses.

    You can find more details here for the licensing

     

    https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

  • dmoffat's avatar
    dmoffat
    9 years ago

    So this means that if you have 5 people developing PBI Reports and Dashboards and 95+ who just Consume reports that refresh Daily and/or don't use any of the sexy things that apparently PBI Pro offers ( https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/ ),  you would now be paying $50 US per month but after June 1 you would have to pay $1000+ per month :-) ... even if you never use today's Power BI Pro features.

     

    Simple math and kinda sucks frankly ...  Good luck selling that to management ;-)

     

    **bleep**

GilbertQ's avatar
GilbertQ
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9 years ago

Hi dilumd

 

Here are my answers to your questions

 

  1. Going forward you will have to have Power BI Pro to share dashboards. If you use the Free Version you are still able to publish to the Power BI Service, but you will not be able to share it with anyone.
  2. Going forward if you want to share the recipients of your dashboards will have to have the Pro or Premium licensing enabled.
  3. Under free they are going to give it the same capabilites as the Pro version, with one BIG change that there will be no sharing.
  4. For any access to viewing other peoples dashboards you will require the Pro or Premium licenses.

You can find more details here for the licensing

 

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

  • ed_mcdill's avatar
    ed_mcdill
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    9 years ago

    Regarding point 2.

     

    I think that the anwser is basically as guavaq stated:

    "A Power BI Pro license is required to receive content from other users, unless the user is associated with dedicated capacity in Power BI Premium." this is from the pricing page small print. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

     

    So if the users are within the premium capacity, they don't need to have a pro licence to receive content, but I guess that is obvious.

  • mbegg's avatar
    mbegg
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    9 years ago

    Hi GilbertQ,

     

     

    Please confirm dashboards can be shared amongst users with Pro licences but not the Premium service? In my opinion, it is not clear from the link you provided.

     

    My organisation has <100 users so the US$ 4,995/month fee for Premium is way too expensive.  

    • dmoffat's avatar
      dmoffat
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      9 years ago

      So this means that if you have 5 people developing PBI Reports and Dashboards and 95+ who just Consume reports that refresh Daily and/or don't use any of the sexy things that apparently PBI Pro offers ( https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/ ),  you would now be paying $50 US per month but after June 1 you would have to pay $1000+ per month :-) ... even if you never use today's Power BI Pro features.

       

      Simple math and kinda sucks frankly ...  Good luck selling that to management ;-)

       

      **bleep**

      • nwabramson's avatar
        nwabramson
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        9 years ago

        This sure feels like a bait and switch scam. . . 

    • dexterz's avatar
      dexterz
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      9 years ago

      you not need Premium,pro is not change。

      Premium is on-premises and cloud service for big crop

      • perpor's avatar
        perpor
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        9 years ago

        I am searching to understand if this if true, it is very important for us...

  • alexSPY's avatar
    alexSPY
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    9 years ago

    Hi GilbertQ,

     

    Forgive me, but I am still confused. I am a Pro user, and have created several reports and dashboards which I share throughout my organization of 50+ users. Do these users, who simply view my content, have to be Pro users as well? They are not making edits to the content, they are simply viewing the content that I have developed.

     

    Thanks for the clarification!

    • dmoffat's avatar
      dmoffat
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      9 years ago

      Yes you are right ... $10 per person  or $500+ per month :-)  Great eh?

       

      I have decided that there is ONE solution, and although I have kept it to myself until now, I think it might be time to mention it....

       

      More than one person can log into a single Power BI account at a time ... So why not get ONE Pro account for each selected Group of your Viewers (it might be everyone so you may only need one) and share it and its password to everyone that will consume your Dashboards and Reports...

       

      YES this was not how this was intended BUT frankly I really think MS's theory is that EVERYONE will be so busy creating their own Reports and Dashboards that they won't be able to to their actual jobs ;-) ... so they will NEED their own login.... Not true 

       

      A developer with their own Pro sub can then Share their content to the Group Pro license or licenses so they can consume the reports and dashboards. The Group account can be assigned only View rights by the Source account user and they can be prevented from changing, printing passing on the assigned docs.

       

      The one thing that will always come up with this is the fact that any of the Group account users can add their own stuff to the Account.  Simple solution though ... have the Admin go in and delete anything added periodically (like daily) and declare adding stuff to this account is a BCM (Bad Career Move)...

       

      I know MS might try to declare this against the contract we have in a Pro license (but I don't see this anywhere) but nonetheless these Group accounts would be exclusively Viewing platforms and their demand on Power BI' processing and especially it's storage would be nothing at all.

       

      We all know that logins and passwords are shared between co-workers EVERYWHERE for genuine reasons of keeping their business moving along, so this is not an outrageous idea.  Also I do not think this is a security issue because any individual Licensee can always share their private Login and Password with anyone anytime, so what's the difference.

       

      Also at any time an Administrator can change the login Password for a Group account and redistribute the new one to the list of acceptable Viewers.  And of course if everything is created from PBIX files there will be backups of the Content always there if some a-hole changes the password themselves (which should be the last thing they ever do for your company ;-) )..

       

      And since there are already many people who use their logins on different machines all the time and already share their logins I think if MS shut this down it would be politically unpleasant.

       

      Then maybe MS would just come up with some cheap Viewer License (say $2 per Month?)...

       

      Have fun with this ...

      **bleep**

       

    • NAX's avatar
      NAX
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      You understood correctly alexSPY.

      Now a Pro account is required for every user that only needs viewing a dashboard shared by another user, which also needs a pro account, as before. 

       

      I'm already looking for alternative platforms.

      • alexSPY's avatar
        alexSPY
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        9 years ago

        NAX, unfortunately, everything that I've seen is much more expensive. For us, even at $10/month for around 50 users makes this solution much more cost effective than larger solutions from the likes of Tableau for example. 

         

        I'll be bringing this up at Data Insights though next week.

  • ElizabethTachji's avatar
    ElizabethTachji
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    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    How many Power BI Pro licenses can we have with 0365 business premium subscription.

     

    Cheers

    Elizabeth

    • GilbertQ's avatar
      GilbertQ
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      8 years ago
      Hi there

      You can have as many as you require, there is no limit.