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 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 ConsumersSo 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/

Agree with Rob on this. We see aout 3-5 people creating the content and around 100 consuming/viewing the data but only through the Web interface. Paying for thoses 100 seems wrong as they won't be creating anything. Have no issue paying for the Pro license for the creators. Just my 2 cents

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.

Hi John,Yes you're right.That's the current model but I can't imagine with the changes in content distribution Microsoft are proposing that would continue to be the case.In the future a "Pro" licence isn't required to make premium content because there is only one type of content being made now they're fixing the disparity between Free and Pro. The ability to share it with peers however is locked down to PowerBI Pro and the ability to share it more broadly will be in the realm of PowerBI Premium.

Whoa, I did not realize Premium would be $5K starting. That is a show stopper. Agree with comment above that this is not small business friendly. My needs are for 5-7 people to create and 200 people to consume on Sharepoint. I would expect to pay $25-40 per author (so about $2 K annually) and expect consumption to be free. What I am not clear about in the future model is if you DON'T purchase Premium, how does the Publish to Sharepoint work (or not).

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Antony Taylor
Iron Contributor
May 10, 2017
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
- 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
    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/

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