Problem: Requirement to provide reporting and dashboards quickly and securely at a reasonable price.
Hypothesis: There are great reporting solutions and a couple of enterprise leading products are Tableau, Qlik. These can get pretty expensive installing and paying for licencing.
Hypothesis: There are great reporting solutions and a couple of enterprise leading products are Tableau, Qlik. These can get pretty expensive installing and paying for licencing.
Proposed Resolution: PowerBI Pro (PowerBI Premium is for larger enterprise solutions) is a cloud based solution that can connect to multiple data source and on-prem using the Gateway. E5 licences include the PowerBI Pro licence for creating and publishing reports. E3 licence can get a add-on for about £7.50 per month. This is only needed by the people creating the reports.
To paraphrase "You can embed the report (not dashboard) on a SharePoint web page and share it with company users. You will then only be needing one licence to publish the report. The downside of this option is there is no builtin security for the report. Anyone who has access to the web page can access the report."
Disclaimer: These are my thoughts and understanding, pls check your licencing with Microsoft and a licencing professional.
Updated: Nov 2022
3 Power BI licence types:
- Free (per user)
- Pro (per user per month) $
- Premium (resource/capacity based) $$$ - 2 options
Choose depending on usage patter, so Premium is great for enterprises level but out of the range for most SME businesses. Feature and pricing comparison
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