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What! You need a Power BI Pro Licence
Guys, is it right that all users who wish to view a power bi dashboard on SharePoint page require a Power BI liecnce ? If yes, Then I find this mad!
Hi John.
It's currently correct but won't be when the new "Power BI Premium" comes into force. This will allow for "unlicensed" users to consume content.
PowerBI Premium is purchased as in blocks of resource nodes (Compute/storage etc)
Here is my (potentially flawed) understanding of the current and future models.
Current Model:
PowerBI Pro user creates and publishes content.
PowerBI Free users read and review content and can create their own reports/dashboards from this.
Future Model:
PowerBI Pro users creates and publishes content
PowerBI Premium resource allows for unlicenced users to consume content in a read only fashion
It's currently correct but won't be when the new "Power BI Premium" comes into force. This will allow for "unlicensed" users to consume content.
PowerBI Premium is purchased as in blocks of resource nodes (Compute/storage etc)
Here is my (potentially flawed) understanding of the current and future models.
Current Model:
PowerBI Pro user creates and publishes content.
PowerBI Free users read and review content and can create their own reports/dashboards from this.
Future Model:
PowerBI Pro users creates and publishes content
PowerBI Premium resource allows for unlicenced users to consume content in a read only fashion
I hope this is the case, but it is not how I read the intro to Premium. I read that any person consuming or using Dashboards would need a license which is a real shame. Most analytics tools work the way you described where the consumption does not need a paid license.
- Hi Rob,
I'm pretty sure that the consumption model is changing in the way we're discussing. The pricing of the Power BI Premium (Starting at $5,000/month for the smallest node) doesn't make sense otherwise.
There is still a break even point where you'd basically licence everyone with PowerBI Pro up to ~500 Consumers
So if you're a small business who really likes PowerBI then you're being screwed by Microsoft once again. But this isn't surprising. We all knew it was coming eventually.
Excerpt from the Announcement.
"Power BI Premium enables Power BI Pro users to publish reports broadly across the enterprise and beyond, without requiring recipients to be licensed per user."
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-accelerates-modern-bi-adoption-with-power-bi-premium/Thank guys for your comments so far. Yes I think we all agree that most other vendors do not charge for the view of a dashboard. Lets hope someone out there in Microsoft reads this thread and understand where we are coming from on this one. I am sure Microsoft will may enough dosh on licencing to create reports.
I need to throw in a caveat here....
The Power BI web part itself requires a Pro license. While I understand that that will change, and will be a function of the premium storage model, I haven't seen anything official to the contrary. For the moment, the web part itself requires a pro license.
- Yep I read that too. But I can't imagine that you'd have PowerBI Premium without someone with PowerBI Pro to create content.
Or do you mean you'll need a seperate paid for licence just for the web part?
