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Power BI Embedded Introduction

Power BI is offered under these license models:

  • Power BI Free
  • Power BI Pro
  • Power BI Premium Per User
  • Power BI Premium Capacity
  • Power BI Embedded

Here, we describe Power BI Embedded, which is similar to Power BI Premium Capacity. The difference is that

  • Power BI Embedded is a capacity managed and subscribed to in Azure
  • Power BI Embedded is paid by the hour (whereas Power BI Premium is paid for by the month)
  • if Power BI is turned off, the workspace is not usable. You cannot view reports, but you also cannot upload pbix files.

With Power BI Embedded, you can:

  • turn on and off an embed capacity in azure
  • define a workspace on an embed capacity
  • use the Power BI API to automate Power BI

Main Usage Scenario

Power BI Embed is used at Power Partners mainly for generating PDF reports using Power BI. With the py-powerbi library, you can:

  • start the embed capacity
  • refresh datasets (e.g. any moment in time, whereas the built-in auto refresh can be configured to refresh only at 30 min frequency)
  • run paginated reports built with Power BI Report Builder

Examples

For an example, see the py-powerbi package, as well as the pwrp/pwrp git repository.