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
please share with others in the community to rise the votes
RE: Power BI Lite License
Great idea, but not a fan of the "Lite" name - I'd call it Power BI Online.
To those who expect it this be free, that seems unrealistic - you would be getting secure access to regularly updated data, hosted on cloud servers.
RE: Power BI Lite License
We all agree that PowerBi is an excellent tool, but in order to be adopted from smaller companies, the pricing model has to change. Free consuption of reports is necessary!!
RE: Power BI Lite License
Portugal is a small country with small companies. The actual model is not suitable for our reality.
Please adjust it Microsoft!
RE: Power BI Lite License
I fully agree.
We are a 500 seats company and would like to have 30 PBI Pro licenses + 1 capacity for the 470 remaining seats.
It would cost us 4500€ which is the same if not more than what we would pay for 500 pro licenses... This is complete non-sense and because of that PBI rollout/adoption is totally frozen.
RE: Power BI Lite License
Yes i agree to, at least viewing dashboard and reports should be free.
RE: Power BI Lite License
I agree, it's problematic to have Pro Licenses only for people who need to read a report created with Power BI on Premises features.
It doesn't sounds logical that the same kind of license is needed for users creating and sharing the reports & users only reading the Reports/Dashboards..
I'm sure many small/medium companies cannot move forward with Power BI because of this reason.
For me, reading any kind of report should be available for free users, or maybe for "Lite Users" if there is more features available than the one for free users.
RE: Power BI Lite License
There is a saying 'look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves (UK currency).' Given SME's are the future Enterprises it's worth the effort to attract and retain your SME customer base. After all Microsoft works with schools, colleges, universities to provide competitive pricing model with a view the user becomes a Microsoft client for life. Banks work hard to get university students to sign up for the very same reason. The chances are the student will remain a life time customer unless the bank does something really silly.
RE: Power BI Lite License
All Dashboard consumers with only "View" rights should be FREE. a data analytics and all with Edit or above rights could need a PRO license. Sharing is Free in all the competitors, so why charge for it if? I think is a terrible strategy that will prevent many organizations to use it and will lead them to look to other alternatives for what to many it is still just a fancy tool.
RE: Power BI Lite License
would be nice