Interesting problem, I'm a freelancer who is writing a model and suite of reports for another software developer who wants to deploy Power BI reports to their customers alongside their ERP suite. They expect to monetize the Power BI reports, and I'll get ongoing work as a result of their customers wanting additions to the base PBI report suite.
They've now come to me and said that their concern is that their customers can easily download the .pbix from the service, and edit it, which will create support headaches.
Note that my client (the ERP developer) will not be hosting the service for their customers. Each customer will have their own PBI licences within their own 365 licence arrangements. We will hand over a pbix to the customer and help them publish it to their own workspace and assist with setting up refreshes.
I can't see any way around this. PBI doesn't seem to be set up for 3rd party developers managing customers' .pbix files and PBI service. We will not be given 365 accounts for each customer.
I'd love to hear about examples of external parties setting up and supporting 3rd party Power BI solutions. It seems very much built on in-house use.
thanks