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John Gaskell's avatar
John Gaskell
Copper Contributor
May 10, 2017

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! 
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RobOK's avatar
RobOK
Bronze Contributor
May 10, 2017
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.
Antony Taylor's avatar
Antony Taylor
Iron Contributor
May 10, 2017
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/
  • John Gaskell's avatar
    John Gaskell
    Copper Contributor
    May 10, 2017

    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. 

     

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    John White
    MVP
    May 10, 2017

    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. 

    • Antony Taylor's avatar
      Antony Taylor
      Iron Contributor
      May 10, 2017
      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?
      • John White's avatar
        John White
        MVP
        May 10, 2017

        You're right, you'll need at least one Pro license to create premium content.

         

        Technically, the Web part is itself a "Power BI Pro" Feature, so regardless of the report being viewed, it requires that the viewer have a Power BI Pro license. 

         

        I don't expect this to continue however. 

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