What you get with Power BI Premium as of January 2020: Incremental Refresh, Paginated Reports, Power BI Report Server, Dedicated Capacity, and more!

1. Power BI Premium for Fun & Profit
Ike Ellis, MVP
Crafting Bytes – Partner
Solliance – General Manager – Data & AI Practice
@ike_ellis

2. Ike Ellis
• /ikeellis
• @ike_ellis
• www.ikeellis.com
• Founder of San Diego Power BI
and PowerApps User Group
• MVP since 2011
• Author of Developing Azure
Solutions, Power BI MVP Book
• Speaker at PASS Summit, SQLBits,
DevIntersections, TechEd, Craft, MS
Azure & AI Conference

3. let’s get pricing out of the way
Power BI Desktop – Free to use and share
Still needs Power BI Pro to publish

4. power bi embedded pricing

5. All things being equal, when is power bi premium
worth it? Well, at the lowest tier
• 500 users who view reports in the portal. $10 per user per month
• 1,000 users who view: $5 per user per month

6. Examples
1) If an organization consists of 200 total users – 50 are engaging in self-service BI, while the remaining 150 are limited
to viewing BI content – Power BI Pro is the most economical deployment option for all users within the organization.
2) However, if the organization consists of 700 total users – 100 are engaging in self-service BI, while the remaining 600
occasionally view BI content – the most economical deployment option would be to license Power BI Pro for the 100
users engaging in self-service BI and to license Power BI Premium for the 600 seeking occasional access to view BI
content.

7. Dedicated capacity
• The Power BI Service (portal) is a
shared resource
• Makes performance inconsistent
• Cheaper
• Power BI Premium means having your
own Power BI server, with dedicated
compute (CPU) and memory
• Surprises me that people who spend
$250,000 in SQL Server licensing
complain about Power BI Premium
costs

8. Early use of new features
Microsoft has stated that features will be released in Power BI Premium
BEFORE Power BI Professional
This could be considered a huge competitive advantage

9. Power BI Report Server
• Power BI reports and SSRS reports
completely within an organization’s
firewall
• The same number of virtual cores
provisioned in the cloud can also be
deployed on-premises with Power BI
Report Server – without the need to split
the capacity
• providing the freedom to move to the
cloud at your pace.

10. Embedding
Power BI Premium allows for embedding Power BI into a custom application

11. Admin settings

12. Admin demo

13. Multi geo region for data residency
You can choose which country and region your Power BI tenant resides in

14. Assigning capacities

16. Monitoring

17. Large Datasets
• 10GB Datasets
• Refreshed up to 12GB

18. Incremental refresh advantages
• Refreshes are faster
• Refreshes are more reliable - It's no longer necessary to maintain long-
running connections to volatile source systems.
• Resource consumption is reduced - Less data to refresh reduces overall
consumption of memory and other resources.

19. Incremental Refresh

20. Options

21. Incremental Refresh Demo

22. Paginated reports
• based on Report Definition Language in SQL Server Reporting Services.
• not the same as Power BI Report Server
• using the free Power BI Report Builder Windows Desktop application,
• Paginated reports are a workload that must be enabled for a capacity by using
the Admin portal

23. Paginated Report Demo

24. Power BI Embedded
• Pausable
• Billable hourly
• Cheaper
• No Power BI Service (Portal) for viewers
• Deploy to SharePoint or a custom portal written by
developers
• Similar to Premium

25. Power BI Embedded Demo

26. Azure Analysis Services
• Both Power BI Premium and AAS have incremental refresh
• Also pausable – can keep costs very, very low
• AAS is around $500 a month PBI Premium AAS

28. Azure Analysis Services Demo

29. Future Features
• Data Lineage
• Data Protection
• Datasets larger than 10GB in Premium
• Historical Capacity Metrics
• Power BI Home Customization
• XMLA Read/Write Endpoint (Read is GA, Write in
Preview)
• SSMS Connectivity
• Excel
• Profiler

31. Demo: Excel connectivity

32. • Ike Ellis
• Twitter: @ike_ellis
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/IkeEllisData
• Solliance – General Manager – Data & AI Practice
• Partner – Crafting Bytes
• Microsoft MVP
• www.solliance.net
• www.craftingbytes.com
• www.ikeellis.com
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