PowerBI Price Increase – Helical Insight

PowerBI Price Increase Helical Insight What is PowerBI? Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool that helps businesses turn data into easy-to-understand reports and visualizations. It allows users to connect to various data sources, like Excel files, DB etc, and create interactive dashboards that show important information at a glance. PowerBI consists of various components like PowerBI Desktop (to create reports dashboards), PowerBI service (wherein built reports dashboards are uploaded), PowerBI mobile application. PowerBI Pricing Option PowerBI Pro is a per-user license that allows user to create, share and collaborate. Then there is PowerBI premium per user which is a more advanced version which also allows advanced features including access to large model sizes and more frequent refresh rates. Below mentioned are the older rates and newer rates along with percentage increases. Item Power BI Pro PowerBI Premium Old Price $10/month per user $20/month per user New Price $14/month per user $24/month per user Percentage Increase 40% 20% Effective: The newer pricing will be affective from the new financial year i.e. 1st April 2025. Any new users who is onboarded after 1st April will be on the new pricing. Older customers will continue to be billed on the older pricing option, but from April they will also be billed on the newer costing option.

Impact Though PowerBI price increase after many years, but the price increase is steep. This is especially going to impact organizations who have embedded PowerBI inside their product and are providing embedded analytics to a much larger audience. Since they have huge number of users viewing the reports/dashboards, the number of licenses procured by them are huge. Thus resulting in a substantial increase in the cost (though with zero additional value coming out of it). Alternative Options There is still 5-6 months left and that can give organizations sufficient time to explore alternatives and plan migration strategies. While exploring alternative options it is important to consider below - - Flat costing model which can allow you to scale up the business without additional cost Learning curve: New tool should not force you to learn any new language. Like Looker needs you to learn LookML, PowerBI forces to learn MDX etc. Support of embedding, white labelling and Single Sign On Self service interface to create reports dashboards Flexible deployment options (on-prem, cloud etc) Preferrable would be a completely browser based tools (unlike PowerBI desktop, Tableau desktop etc). This can give the advantage that you can always allow your end customers also to create their own analysis as well Support of pixel perfect document kind of canned reports also. Most of the BI tools are only support dashboards/visualizations but not really paginated canned reports Vendor support with migration from PowerBI - - - - - - Open Source BI Helical Insight One of the feature rich option to consider is Open Source BI Helical Insight. You can reach out on support@helicalinsight.com and our team can help you with - Demo of Helical Insight - FREE POC in which we can help you migrate few reports dashboards from PowerBI to Helical Insight - Explain your team how that migration is done - If there are any features (like any new chart, new customization, new exporting option etc) not present within Helical Insight, that also can be planned - In case if you are looking for professional services help in migrating reports dashboards to Helical Insight platform, our professional services team (based out of India) can also help with the same. Advantage of using Helical Insight Below are the advantages of using Helical Insight

- FLAT PRICING irrespective of number of reports or dashboards, number of users/viewers etc, data size or sessions Ability to white label Helical Insight product. Support of embedding and Single Sign On Flexible deployment options (on-prem, cloud, docker) Completely browser self service drag drop interface to create reports, dashboards etc Lot of other features which includes exporting, email scheduling, user role management, row level data security, Support of paginated document kind of canned reports also NO need to learn any new language. If you need to write SQL (for more complex reports), that will be the native SQL of that DB. A completely browser based product for all the functions (including for even designing reports & dashboards also). Help you with enterprise support at no additional cost Help you with migration to Helical Insight - - - - - - - - - You can register on https://www.helicalinsight.com/register/