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Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

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Power BI User on 08 Nov 2018 16:46:05

Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium .. thank you

Haydn Richardson (administrator) on 20 Jan 2023 01:03:09

Paginated reports are now available in Power BI Pro. See Announcing support for paginated reports in Power BI Pro | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

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André Coetzee on 27 Oct 2020 18:31:24

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

For Paginated Reports to have the same ability / functionality as PowerBI Pro, is a small ask.
Initially I thought this would be such a great solution in our company, but then that price !!! It is incomprehensible to have such a massive price difference.

Now I am forced to look for an alternative solution and I am guessing that we are one of many companies that are willing to pay even double the pro license just to have the Paginated Reports capabilities and ability to publish to the Service. But it is going to cost us a 1000 times more to just to have that ability.

This is bot feasible at this point and the hunt for an affordable Report authoring tool continues.... ;-(

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Gino Power BI User on 17 Oct 2020 23:20:46

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Feature is required for Pro users as alternative products are being used by organisations which is a shame. The pricing gap is far too large to contemplate and does not stack up so it is a no brainer that customers and organisations use other reporting options.

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Jonathan Sander on 14 Oct 2020 12:36:01

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

So this idea was submitted on 11/8/2018. We are coming up on its 2-year anniversary and it is still "Under Review".

What is Microsoft's official response to this? It's either in the plan or not. Companies need clear direction so they can make decisions on reporting tools and purchases.

I was watching a Microsoft-sponsored training channel and once again they posted the Power BI Product Portfolio listing Report Builder as a "Free paginated report authoring tool" side-by-side with Power BI Premium, for "Large scale deployments." Apparently the only time you need paginated reports is in a large scaled deployment with dedicated capacity. The marketing team needs to check the accuracy of their material...

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Miguel Oliveira on 09 Oct 2020 12:04:12

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Power BI printing functionality is very limited. If there is a table that demands scrolling, not all data is printed at the moment.

Paginated reports would solve that issue.

This is a feature gap for Power BI Pro users.
We have to use Excel for this which makes no sense.
Please make this available.

It's not just Enterprise that needs pixel perfect reports.

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Tony Carter on 03 Oct 2020 04:00:43

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Please make this available in Pro licensing!!
Pro $15 p.m. vs premium $ 4.5k p.m ?! Just Not feasible ..

Data displayed on a visual vs paginated is just rendering ? Same data ..

Cost should be about compute power which is cheap nowadays..

Love power bi! Please include rendering for paginated reports ASAP

Thanks

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Kim Wakefield on 17 Sep 2020 00:27:59

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Power BI Pro should incorporate the ability to print and share detailed high quality reports. It is not feasible for small, medium or non profit organisations to spend big dollars on this.

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James Taylor on 10 Sep 2020 01:17:18

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

$60,000+ a year just to publish a report is insane. This needs to be changed to Pro ASAP!! Our company spent weeks drawing up Proof of Concepts with paginated reports and interactive dashboards, only to scrap it all because a Premium Workspace was the only option and it is WAY, WAYYYY out of our budget. Now we're using SAP Crystal Reports instead because it is literally 1/10th of the price and only a one-off purchase, not a annual recurring commitment.

Tl;dr either make Premium A LOT cheaper, or allow Pro to publish paginated reports.

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Sam O on 09 Sep 2020 16:32:53

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

My company, a SMB, has the SQL Server with Quality Assurance package together with Power BI Pro. Spending another 60K plus a year for Paginated Reports will be out of our budget. Having paginated reports included with Pro would also really make sense in migrating all of our SAS reporting into Power BI. We are looking at a further where all our reporting solutions will be hosted on Power BI

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Farhad P. on 31 Aug 2020 17:31:40

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

There is a lot of demand for Paginated reports especially when migrating from a legacy reporting tool such as Oracle Discoverer. In order to consolidate the applications and BI tools used in any organization, this should be a must have feature. SMBs don't have big budgets to purchase new tools and applications for every business need.

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John Lee on 29 Aug 2020 21:03:15

RE: Paginated reports - please make it available in Pro as well as Premium

Microsoft, don't ignore SMBs and partners who help SMBs. We are forced to use a mixture of Power BI and SSRS which does not have any logical sense.