Premium Per User-Paginated ReportsChristian Cote

WhoamiData Engineer/Solution Architect at Avanade

On-Prem ETL development using various ETL tools: DTS / SSIS, Hummungbird Genio, Informatica, Datastage

DW Experience in various domains: Pharmaceutical, finance, insurance, manufacturing and education

Specialized in Data warehouse/BI/Big Data

Writer of several books on data integration

Microsoft Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

Montreal Data Platform User group leader

Agenda

Power BI Premium Flavors

Dataflow features

Paginated Reports

Power BI Premium different flavors

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Premium regular license

• 5000 users for P1 capacity

• Pro vs Viewers

• Greater capacity: 400GB Model

Premium sandbox (embedded)

• Ideal for IT development

• Used to embed reports into web pages or applications

Premium Per user

• Save costs

• Less than 250 users (ideally)

• 100 GB Model

Power BI Premium Per User VS Capacity

Feature description Per User Per Capacity

Model size limit 100 GB Up to 400 GB

Refresh rate 48/day 48/day

Paginated reports ✔ ✔

AI capabilities (AutoML, Impact Analysis, Cognitive Services) ✔ ✔

Advanced dataflows features, such as DirectQuery ✔ ✔

Usage-based aggregate optimization ✔ ✔

Deployment Pipelines ✔ ✔

XMLA endpoint connectivity ✔ ✔

Enhanced automatic page refresh ✔ ✔

Multi-Geo support X ✔

Unlimited distribution X ✔

Power BI reports on-premises X ✔

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) ✔ * ✔

Dedicated Capacity

• Dataflows with incremental refresh, enhanced computation

• Up to 48 refreshes during the day

• Al capabilities (AutoML)• Predictive analysis• Sentiment Analysis

• XMLA endpoints• Paginated reports• Deployment Pipelines• Advanced security

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Different Audiences/Users

Power BI Dataflows• What’s missing in my model from our

official data sources?

• No-Code data prep

• Prepare data with just few clicks

• Premium: Enhanced compute engine

• Premium: Linked/Computed entities

• Premium: Incremental refresh

XMLA Endpoints

Demo: Power BI Premium

Paginated Reports

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Origins

• Reporting Services

• Pixel perfect reports

• Sometimes used to render invoices

Power BI Report Builder

• Power Bl dataset VS other sources

• Web based tool in the future?

• Migrate your on-premises Reporting Services to the clouds

Data Model

• Can access data sources directly – direct query mode from SSRS

• Can use existing Power BI data model

PBI Paginated reports/SSRS origins

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Crystal Reports

SSRS 1.0 SSRS 2.0 SSRS 3.0 SSRS 3.1 SSRS 4.1SSRS 4.0SSRS 5.0PBI RS

PBI Paginated

Paginated Reports from an IT perspective

• Code behind

• VB .Net code

• Scenario: translations

• Subscriptions

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Demo: Paginated Reports

Learning Paginated Reports

Power BI Paginated Reports in a Day course - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Questions?

Thank you!