This will walk through the different client features that are part of Power BI for the Office 2013 Client.Įxcel 2013 StandaloneYou may not be familiar with this. It cannot be selected in both.Ĭheck out a previous blog where I discussed some of the licensing and account settings with relation to the Power BI Admin Center. It only needs to be check in one of the segments. The SharePoint Online (Plan2) option may show up under multiple subscription segments (i.e. This is done through the O365 Admin Center under users and groups. You will want to verify what license has been applied to the given accounts. New users, created after the point of tenant creation, may not have the option assigned. Applying Licenses to a user accountīy default, your Power BI license should be applied to the initial account that created the O365 Tenant, if you have a Power BI subscription. This is really the complete package for a customer if they don’t have any other O365 subscription and they want to use Power BI. Option 3: Power BI Standalone + Office 365 ProPlusThis includes everything with the Standalone option, but also includes Office 365 ProPlus for download. They would need to have a separate license for Excel 2013 in order to create content. This is really just the consumption pieces of Power BI. This does not include the other features of O365 such as Exchange, Lync or even O365 ProPlus Client.

SharePoint Online is needed to use the Power BI Cloud pieces. Option 2: Power BI StandaloneThis option includes the Power BI components along with SharePoint Online Plan 2. So, if customers want to use Power BI with a subscription they already have, they can purchase this option and it will provide the Power BI options to them. O365 ProPlus Client is also available with E3/E4. This includes Exchange, SharePoint and other features for O365.

Option 1: Power BI Add-on for E3/E4 SubscribersE3/E4 is the Enterprise Subscription for Office 365. If you have further questions regarding pricing, SA Agreements, or Premier contracts, I recommend you reaching out to a Sales Representative or your Account Manager if you have one. Pricing may changes, new features may become available. Please be sure to validate the pricing pages and individual feature capabilities as this can change over time, especially for cloud related services. NOTE: This information is valid as of this posting date. My goal for this blog post is to try and help clear up that confusion. Either regarding what is available, or how do I apply licenses. We have been seeing a lot of cases that surround Licensing. This post is outdated and has been replaced with the following:

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