Power BI Licensing - A New Hope (for Small to Medium Companies)

2022

TL; DR

If you want to share your reports with external users, then they must have a PowerBI Pro Licence. Well not entirely correct there are other options, this session will present and explore some 3rd party options. As well as considering what Microsoft offer and how the other options work.

Session Details

Long ago, Microsoft created PowerBI, and people were happy, then they wanted to share their new reports. If they had a Power BI Pro account, they could. Then Microsoft said, "No this is not the way" they took that feature away. Then many voices cried out in despair (well ok I did). Then the cost of sharing PowerBI reports was placed beyond the dreams of many small to medium enterprises (SME's). Those of large budgets just shrugged and carried on. Yet, so many SME's have struggled to share with their customers their outstanding PowerBI reports. Till some looked and realised there was hope for SME's to share their reports that could fit into the budget of an SME's. • Want to share PowerBI reports with customers who do not have a PowerBI Pro licence? • You thought it was only possible with Power BI Premium? • Your company does have the budget for Power BI Premium? Well, there are at least two alternative 3rd party solutions. If you want to find out more, join me as I show you "there is no spoon". In other words, I will show you two ways to allow you to share PowerBI reports with your customers at a more affordable price. No really!

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