Hi guys,
Short version:
How do you package reports created and hosted on Power BI to resell to users that subscribe to you, not Microsoft?
(Very) Long Version:
I hope this is the right section to ask this. If not, I apologise profusely.
I have been collecting publicly available market data over time for analysis.
The goal is to create analytics based on this data and charge relevant users for consumption of the reports. The reports are very industry specific and are therefore for targeted customers.
After going through a few alternatives I settled on Power BI especially because of the many features and ease of use in the desktop version.
However, I'm not sure how to implement the next challenge: onboarding and charging customers for accessing the reports
I intend to have 3 levels of access:
a) Lite version - lightweight reports that can be accessed for free or at a nominal fee
b) Pro version - advanced reports to be accessible at a higher cost
c) Premium version - Pro plus additional features that may be customised per customer, e.g. more refined datasets, etc
It would be awesome if the restriction to data can be applied at login time so that I share one dataset with a column for user_access_level and when a user logs in a where condition is automatically applied. This is not a big deal though: I will create different datasets for each access level.
As you can see, I will control the levels of access and subscription rates. I should be able to cancel or deny login to a customer once his/her subscription period is over.
The little reading I've done mentions being an Office 365 admin. I don't intend to buy 365, and I honestly don't see how the two are connected. Some others are talking about embedding in application or website from Azure. Well, I don't have an application or website. The PowerBI UI is good enough for me.
So, given the above, what options do I have?
I know about some BI companies that give you a report server on the cloud (AWS, mostly) but their report tooling is not so great