PowerBi - Embed

@Arlette Slachmuylder - we use Power BI Embedded here at Georgia Tech and has created a BBIS part to leverage PBI-E on our BBIS sites. For BBCRM we're just using the normal secure embedding of the URL into BBCRM because all of our GT users have a Power BI Pro license.

@Arlette Slachmuylder I forwarded your question to a couple colleagues here at Blackbaud and one suggested a recent session from our last bbdevdays conference might be helpful - here's the link Blackbaud Developers' Conference Blackbaud CRM Session Track - Day 3 - YouTube

@Arlette Slachmuylder - From a license perspective it depends on what you current have and what your requirements are. The school (not us Foundation) already have the Power BI Pro Premium Capacity license. If we were only to use PBI for the school and us then we would not have a need for Embedded since the school already have the Pro license. But because we wanted to use PBI for public as well as our donors it made more sense for us (Foundation) to go with PBI-E instead of acquiring a PBI Pro Capacity license which we was quoted at around $15k/month. For PBI-E we are currently at the lowest tier at around $700/month.

As for working seamlessly in BBCRM, with the pro license it's just a matter of embedded the URL into BBCRM since it is going to require a user to have a pro licenses and log into their PBI account to view the dashboards. As for PBI-E, we needed to create a custom UI to host and render the dashboards. PBI-E will not require users to log into PBI because it will use the web app's authentication to control security instead.

Hopefully this helps. Happy to take this offline if you'd like to discuss more.