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Impactful Individualnew 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**
Advocate II 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.
I feel exactly the same way.
This new licensing model has paved the way for moving my company reportying to Tableau.
There is no way we will pay $10 a month for hundreds of potential users just to check a report for 5 minutes a week. A reasonable licensing plan would be requiring a more expensive Pro account for authoring but free accounts for viewing, as it used to be, I wouldn't mind paying a higher price, given it would be only 5 or 10 authors.
We are basically using PowerBI because it came with Office 365. If we have to pay thousands of euros a month we will just move to Tableau, that offers a truly finished product, support, and a much better user interface.
Microsoft just lost any future BI business from us here.