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Looking at Desktop Versus Services Options: Power BI Mobile: Intended To Be A Complementary Product To Manage
Looking at Desktop Versus Services Options: Power BI Mobile: Intended To Be A Complementary Product To Manage
reports, dashboards, and KPIs on the go, Power BI Mobile has limited, if any,
authoring capabilities. Your ability to collaborate on Mobile varies depending
on your license authorization.
Core functionality, data processing, and handling capacity differ among the four
licensing options for Power BI. When it comes to data handling capacity, think of
free as a filing cabinet worth of data versus Pro and Premium managing several
hundred filing cabinets. Even among the two paid versions, Premium has the
most capacity available. Similarly, each version has more reporting options and
improved collaboration quality.
Even if you have a small set of users, the Premium license supplies more storage
capacity and higher data limits — which include refresh rates and data isolation
options— than the Pro version. The significant difference in price between Pro
and Premium is more than justified.
Power Bi Desktop is a complete authoring tool for analytics and business intelli-
gence designers. You can download Power BI Desktop for free and install it on
your local computer. The desktop version allows a user to connect to more than
70 data source types and then transform those sources into data models. You can
take the reports you’ve created and add visuals based on the data models using
Desktop. Because Power BI Desktop exists as an application, it’s updated each
month cumulatively with all the features and functionality made available for
consumption on the Services platform.