Dominic Fraser on 29 Jul 2015 18:33:59
Right now, If I use PowerBI desktop to create a dataset, report and dashboard. I am not able to share it with a standard user. This effectively means that we have to either licence everyone as a pro (very expensive for 4k people), or not use the pro features at all (which isn't what we want).
Pro users should be able to build and schedule the PowerBI, and then be able to share with any company user using AD security groups.
Without these options the tool may not be a viable option...
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RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
My company is asking for any opportunity to venture into powerbi, but as i look into the pricing it is just ridiculous, 9.99 for a user for a month, my company has got over a 1000 users around the world does that mean we had to pay $10000 USD / month just for them to view the report itself?
It may be a good tool but wasnt really usable due to the sharing inability.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
If you want to share Power BI reports with a large number of users outside your organization, take a look at the new Binokula app.
It's on AppSource at https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-nz/product/web-apps/binokula.binokula
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Had a MS rep visit our company and show the amazing things you could do with Power BI. Honestly the training was great!
Then we found out that in order to share these awesome reports we either have to pay an extra $9.99 per user per month or invest in the Premium option which is priced so high that I imagine my finance team laughing at me before deleting my request.
This has killed the potential of using Power BI in our company and I feel like we wasted money getting training in this software...
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Tableau publishes a Reader version so that users do not have to have a Pro license simply to view what has been created. Although the Pro license for Tableau is expensive, the fact that it has a free reader license makes it the clear winner here even if Power Bi is preferred for functionality, how disappointing.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
This is the silliest pricing structure I've ever seen. I can understand PRO needed for the dashboard developers, but to simply view a report? What?
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
I started development of some dashboards for faculty at Franklin but now find that they will need the pro version to view them. This is pretty much a deal breaker for us as the costs are just too high.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Totally Disappointed, we learnt Power BI, gave training to entire team, hoping its gonna be really powerful tool, but sharing with unlicensed user is not possible which created big problem, now the project which was decided to build in POWER BI, we are doing in other tool.Even Power Premium is expensive.
Team any other workaround, just as some jobs we can schedule where we can automatically pick up report from server in PDF/PPT format, put it in sharepoint, where user can open those PDF/PPT reports.
Many Thanks
SK
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Disappointed with this huge limitation, being not able to share.
Even if you subscribe for Pro still the users cannot view shared dashboards unless they upgrade their BI version which is not a viable option.
Microsoft should reconsider the sharing methodology.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Totally agree with comments on this thread, microsoft please listen.
Working in a large organisation if you want uptake of the product you need to let us share the output with others and use / demonstrate full potential.
RE: Share a Pro dashboard with a standard user
Deal-Breaker