Since Power BI was introduced in July 2015, it has enjoyed a fantastic reception in the market. The service’s “seconds to signup, minutes to wow” approach has helped Power BI deploy in hundreds of thousands of organizations.
As Power BI’s adoption evolves from individuals and teams and into large enterprises, the need for new capabilities continues to evolve with it. Enterprises that are adopting Power BI are demanding larger scale, increased performance, complete governance and control, and the ability to deploy reports and dashboards to a very large number of employees, in a cost-effective way.
Power BI Premium is designed from the ground up to address the challenges of large enterprise deployments and demanding workloads. A new service architecture was created to optimize for these enterprise scenarios, including the ability for organizations to serve a large number of “readers” — who simply need to view and explore dashboards and reports — in a cost-effective manner and without needing to license each user individually. This white paper will review the basics of Power BI Premium, its vision, its capabilities, its road map, and its various usage scenarios.