on 09 May 2017 00:25:49
Power BI should have a Lite License for people that only consume dashboards or reports every now and then. This is for people that don't create reports but need to see the dashboards and may need to use the "report level" to be able to export output to PowerPoint (since you can't export the dashboard to PowerPoint but can only do it at Report level).
Administrator on 22 Oct 2017 01:35:52
With the introduction of Power BI Premium earlier this year, there are now two licensing options for Power BI: Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium. This provides the flexibility to select the model that best meets the needs of individual users and entire organizations – whether that’s equipping users with access to self-service BI, broadening the reach of BI content for users occasionally viewing dashboards and reports, or elevating storage sizes, increasing refresh rates and introducing other performance capabilities based on workload requirements. The right choice, Pro or Premium, depends on your particular situation. We've been listening to your questions on UserVoice, the community, and other forums about what option to choose, and have developed a FAQ on our blog that answers the most common questions. Check it out at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-pro-power-bi-premium-flexibility-to-choose-the-licensing-best-for-you-and-your-organization/.
- Comments (139)
RE: Power BI Lite License
Absolutely must have
RE: Power BI Lite License
This is a critical thing for keeping Power BI useful for small and mid-sized businesses. I work for a non-profit that's invested a fair amount in Power BI, and we're now going to lose it because of Microsoft's licensing model. Tableau gave us their product for free and we still went with Power BI because we liked the features better. Now, it seems like that was a bad call.
I would make a ~$2 "Viewer" license that can view (not create/edit) dashboards on any device, and increase the cost of a "Developer" license ("Pro" and "Premier" make no sense). I'd make a "Developer" license cost ~$30, and have them be able to create reports. I do agree that it doesn't make sense that a company should pay $10 and be able to have all the reports they need built by one person. But, in my contrived example, a 100 person company would pay $230/month - that's much more reasonable.
RE: Power BI Lite License
You shouldn't need a pro license to create a new personal dashboard (mashing up visuals from multiple reports). This is simply organizing information for personal consumption.
RE: Power BI Lite License
As a very enthusiatic user of Power BI I'm also very dissappointed about the release of Power BI Premium.
The spike of price is just unacceptable. From $0 to $5000 a month. Even if they will introduce a slightly cheaper pricing model it's still killing my selling point to use PowerBI yet alone to switch from Tableau to Power BI for the whole organisation.
RE: Power BI Lite License
I just run into this issue, I wanted to showcase the capabilities to some executives and when they wanted to access a sharepoint page where I embedded a report they were required to get a PowerBI Pro lincense... I guess the "as a service" vs license is not well figured out yet for powerbi
RE: Power BI Lite License
Dear Power BI team,
We have just spent weeks producing dashboards based on SharePoint list data to share with Senior management and make reports available to all staff and improve adoption in a project that took months to complete. People in our organisation were starting to show interest in Power BI and asking for a few licenses for their team etc.
Because of this change, we are now looking at other products and will most likely experience a lot of slippage to figure out a workaround, not to mention the time wasted working on this for nothing.
We cannot justify providing a PRO licence for every single member of our organisation even if they only need to look at a report or a dashboard once a month.
RE: Power BI Lite License
The pricing, along with a commitment for a year, will deter small developers. There's too much risk unless you already have quite a few established customers already who will commit.
The peak load of 300 page renders per hour sets a limit on each price band. By doing it this way, you create the uncertainty and complexity that you were striving to avoid. The model is now complex and the costs are hard to work out.
In terms of the pricing model, I can now see little benefit over the usage model of Power BI Embedded. All I see is a large increase in costs and further complexity.
RE: Power BI Lite License
As a business owner buying into, contributing to and selling Power BI to customers as a small BI Specialist company we're VERY diappointed with the recent changes wrt embedding Power BI..!!
Developing a Power BI analytics capability with the ability for a small customer to embed this ability into their web-app and "pay as you use" based on tokens was what we "sold" to our SME customers.
Even with the reduced Power BI premium entry level most of our customers is sitting dry and our image is seriously damaged having "sold" what we thought to be the differentiator between Power BI and other competitors in market!!
Seriously hoping and trusting the Power BI team will re assess what they have done! Otherwise we will have to manage damage and change our staratagy away from Power BI!
Regards
Johan du Preez, CEO Synapse-Junction
RE: Power BI Lite License
'+1 To this. Ruined the whole idea of pay as you go
RE: Power BI Lite License
Suggest:
Power BI Pro - author and publish
Power BI Free/Lite - consume