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Power BI Premium Provides Capacity-Based Licensing

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Power BI Premium is a planned offering that provides an alternative licensing method for reducing the number of individual user licenses and introduces higher performance and better management features. Premium allows customers to share reports that contain advanced features, such as interactive query and user-based security with an unlimited number of internal and external users, rather than buying a subscription license for every user. However, Premium starts at US$5,000 per month and is for large enterprises with thousands of users, and report authors still require individual Power BI Pro subscription licenses.

Power BI Premium Licensing and Pricing

Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) family of online services, data connectors and gateways, report design tools, and client-side applications, which are used to create and share reports, dashboards, and other forms of BI.

The Power BI Premium licensing model will make it more practical to serve large numbers of read-only users.

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