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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**

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nwabramson
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9 years ago

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

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gmosier
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9 years ago

I really wish Microsoft didn't require end users to have a license to use the fruits of a developer's labor.  If there's any single thing that's going to cause us to move from Power BI to Tableau-- which is currently under consideration-- it's that. Now that Tableau has modified their pricing to a reasonable monthly cost, I think the Powers That Be will likely conclude that it makes a lot more sense (and is probably much less expensive) to buy a few $70 Pro developer licenses than try to worry about dozens of $10 licenses for all possible end users. And I pray that I won't be asked to pony up for a subscription to the C++ compiler the next time a new version of Outlook is released.