The introduction this month of Power BI Premium promises greater flexibility in terms of: licensing, scaling and ease of deployment. See the announcement on powerbi.microsoft.com,
The license flexibility gives Organizations greater control over its user’s level of access, fully enabling capabilities for some, while others who just need to view and interact with reports will be able to do so without licenses.
Similar to many other Microsoft cloud-based products and services like Dynamics 365, Power BI Premium comes with greater scalability, to allow organizations to scale up or down based on their changing business needs over time.
Premium also provides the ability to manage Power BI reports on-premises with Power BI Report Server.
Power BI Report Server on-premises is fully compatible and cloud-ready. This is particularly of interest for those looking into a Local Business Data (on-premises) deployment of Dynamics 365 for Operations. The new service will be generally available late Q2 2017.
Microsoft has also just released the new Process Analyzer Content Pack for Power BI for Dynamics 365 Version 8.2 and higher. Use this content pack to monitor and analyze your business processes based on the detailed process information stored in your Dynamics 365 system.
There was also a recently introduced Microsoft Power BI content pack for Social Engagement with a new Engagement Analytics report; and of course there still tne Engagement Performance and Team Performance reports previously released.
The Engagement Analytics report provides additional insights regarding engagement on social media with metrics based on location, sentiment, tags and authors. The data model is also enhanced to include these additional dimensions to give more power to explore and to analyze your Social Engagement data.
