PowerBI Report Server PowerBI Premium. Microsoft announced PowerBI Premium – a capacity-based licensing model that increases flexibility for how users to access, share and distribute content in PowerBI. The new offering also introduces the ability to manage PowerBI reports on-premises with the included PowerBI Report Server. PowerBI Report Server is an on-premises server that enables PowerBI Pro users to publish PowerBI reports and distribute them broadly across the enterprise, without requiring report consumers to be licensed individually per user. Organizations now have the flexibility to publish their PowerBI reports to the cloud (PowerBI dienst), or manage them on-premises (PowerBI Report Server) and move to the cloud at their pace.
PowerBI Report Server is built on the proven Sql Server Reporting Services technology and includes all Reporting Services capabilities, including operational (RDL) reports. PowerBI Report Server will be generally available late in the second quarter of 2017.
PowerBI Premium allows customers to purchase PowerBI capacity (virtual cores) in the cloud. It also includes the rights to concurrently deploy the PowerBI Report Server to the equivalent number of cores on-premises.
Introducing Power BI Premium
- Flexibility to license by capacity. PowerBI Premium introduces expanded licensing flexibility to help organizations equip users with the appropriate level of access to the PowerBI service based on their unique needs. For example, many organizations contain users who aren’t actively creating BI content but require the ability to consume content distributed to them. PowerBI Premium enables PowerBI Pro users to publish reports broadly across the enterprise and beyond, without requiring recipients to be licensed per user.
- Greater scale and performance. Organizations using PowerBI Premium will be able to customize performance based on the needs of their team, department or the organization itself. The offering consists of capacity in the PowerBI service exclusively allocated to each organization and supported by dedicated hardware fully managed by Microsoft. Organizations can choose to apply their dedicated capacity broadly, or allocate it to assigned workspaces based on the number of users, workload needs or other factors—and scale up or down as requirements change.
- PowerBI apps. Along with the freedom to license PowerBI for enterprise deployments, we are evolving content packs into PowerBI apps to improve how users discover and explore insights at an enterprise scale. Available today, PowerBI apps offer a simplified way of deploying dashboards and reports to specific people, groups, or an entire organization. Business users can easily install these apps and navigate them with ease, centralizing content in one place and updating automatically.
- Extending on-premises capabilities. PowerBI Premium introduces the ability to maintain BI assets on-premises with PowerBI Report Server. PowerBI Report Server is an on-premises server that allows the deployment and distribution of interactive PowerBI report – and traditional paginated reports – completely within the boundaries of the organization’s firewall. With PowerBI Premium the same number of virtual cores an organization provisions in the cloud can also be deployed on-premises through the PowerBI Report Server, without the need to split the capacity. Organizations can choose PowerBI in the cloud, or elect to keep reports on-premises with PowerBI Report Server and move to the cloud at their pace.
- Embedded analytics. With PowerBI Premium we’re also advancing how PowerBI content is embedded in apps created by customers, partners, and the broad developer community. As part of the new offering, we are converging PowerBI Embedded with the PowerBI service to deliver one API surface, a consistent set of capabilities, and access to the latest features. Moving forward we encourage those interested in embedding PowerBI in their apps to start with PowerBI Desktop and move to deployment with PowerBI Premium. Existing apps built on PowerBI Embedded will continue to be supported.
