How does it work?
Managing Power BI Premium
Power BI capability tiers
Summary
Overview
Dedicated resources in the cloud
Flexibility to license by capacity
Greater scale and performance
Extending on-premises capabilities
Premium capacity – P3
Premium capacity – P2
Premium capacity – P1
My workspace
User 2
My workspace
User 3
App workspace
Marketing
App workspace
Sales
My workspace
User 1
APIs
Custom app
Power BI service – Contoso organization
Power BI Premium
Greater scale and performance
Noisy neighbor isolationEnhance performance by moving workspaces to dedicated hardware
Larger datasetsImport a dataset up to 10 GB in size
Faster data refresh rates Up to 48 times per day per model
Increased storageTotal storage size up to 100 TB
Extend read access to a broader set of people without requiring per user license
Shared Capacity
Power BI Pro user without permissions
Basic user (Non Power BI Pro)
Power BI Pro user with permissions
Content running on dedicated capacity can be distributed to all users via a Power BI App
Power BI Pro users have access to a sales workspace in shared capacity
Power BI Pro user with assignment permissions designates the workspace as Premium (dedicated capacity)
Dedicated Capacity
Non Power BI Pro users are not able to access sales workspace in shared capacity
Sales Workspace
(Dashboards & reports)
Power BI Report Server
Author Share and collaborate Large scale deployments
How does it work?
Managing Power BI Premium
Power BI capability tiers
Summary
Overview
Assign workspaces to your dedicated capacity
Consistent performance
Premium workspaces running on
dedicated hardware
Distribute content to all users
Scale to meet your BI
user needs
Power BI Apps
Buy dedicated capacity
Office 365 admin portal
Securely through the office 365 admin portal
Power BI Premium is
purchased via the Office 365
admin portal
Consistent performance
All content within migrated
workspaces runs on
dedicated capacity
Migrate workspaces for a
specifically scoped team
of users
Allow the entire organization
to use Premium capacity
Distribute to all users
4. Publish an app
3. Confirm permissions
2. Determine what to publish
1. Begin publishing new app
5. BI Users see your shared
app under apps in Power BI
Package reports, dashboards and more to specific groups and users
How does it work?
Managing Power BI Premium
Power BI capability tiers
Summary
Overview
Work with a consistent
management experience
Permissions Management Workspaces Capacity
Easily assign workspacesMove content from shared
to dedicated capacity
Two levels of assignment
permissions
Two levels of assignment permissions
• Add capacity
• Assign admins
• Granting workspace permissions
• Bulk assign workspaces to capacity
• Remove workspaces from capacity
• Monitor capacity usage
• Assign workspaces to capacity
• Grant other Pro users access to their capacity
workspace
Capacity adminsPower BI Pro user with assignment permissions
Work with a consistent management experienceCapacity admin
Pro user with assignment permissions
Same admin portal
New setting for managing
capacity
Capacity admin
Pro user with assignment permissions
All administrative actions
for Power BI Premium in
one place – the Power BI
admin portal
Manage the capacity
owner list
Assign admins and capacity owners
Capacity admin
Pro user with assignment permissionsAssign workspaces to dedicated capacity
Migrate the entire
organization workspaces
Migrate specific users'
workspaces to capacity
Migrate specific workspaces
to capacity
Capacity admin
Pro user with assignment permissions
When a workspace is
removed, it is moved
to the shared capacity.
Content: Reports, Dashboard,
Datasets are not deleted.
Remove workspaces
Capacity admin
Pro user with assignment permissionsGrant workspace permissions
Grant permissions to add
additional workspaces to
an instance of Power BI
Premium for: • The entire organization
• Specific users
Capacity admin
Pro user with assignment permissions
Easily visualize the usage of
your dedicated capacity from
the Power BI admin portal
Monitor capacity usage
Capacity admin
Pro user with assignment permissionsMove content from shared to dedicated capacity
Easily move content from
Capacity to Shared and back
again
Easy to identify workspaces
with Premium
How does it work?
Managing Power BI Premium
Power BI capability tiers
Summary
Overview
How does it work?
Managing Power BI Premium
Power BI capability tiers
Summary
Overview
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How to purchase Power BI Premium
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-admin-premium-purchase
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Premium calculator
Premium capacity planning and deployment whitepaper
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Power BI Premium click through demohttps://aka.ms/pbipremclickthru
Power BI Premium whitepaper
https://aka.ms/pbipremiumwhitepaper
Power BI Premium calculatorhttps://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/calculator/
Documentation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-premium
Power BI Premium support for large datasets
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-power-bi-premium-support-for-larger-datasets/