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new power bi licensing
Hi dilumd
Here are my answers to your questions
- 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.
- Going forward if you want to share the recipients of your dashboards will have to have the Pro or Premium licensing enabled.
- 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.
- 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
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**
I've been awating for some time the announcement of the ability to host Power BI reports on an on-premise server, like with SSRS.
Really disappointed to find that this is only available with the Power BI Premium offering at £3,100/month (UK pounds). Way too much for the SME customers I deal with.
I did manage to get a response from someone at Microsoft who said the Power BI Report Server will be available in the futre but had not pricing or dates. Does anyone have more infomration on this?
Yes! current licensing policy is way too expensive when compared to other possibile options. we are waiting for a possitive feedback from Microsoft. otherwise will have to evaluate onther software.
