Wanting to go from Personal Gateway to Enterprise

[mwaltercpa]

I and another co-worker currently use the On-Premise personal version.  We both keep our machines on each night.  With others starting to use PBI, we'd like to move over to the enterprise gateway.

Few questions:

1. We don't have a sql server, is this required for the enterprise version?  Our data sources are on-prem files/folders

2. Each time I bring up having a sql server, I hear that it's $20K and cost prohibative for us.  If sql is required, is there a subscription that would make this more economical for us?

3. Will there be some work involved in converting from the PG to EG?  We currently have about 80 dashboards.

Thanks!

[v-haibl-msft]

@mwaltercpa

Do you have any other problem about it?

Best Regards,
Herbert

[v-haibl-msft]

@mwaltercpa

1. No. SQL Server is not required here. You can schedule refresh for the on-prem files/folders using on-premises data gateway. Please refer to https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-gateway-onprem/#list-of-available-data-sou....

2. For the Power BI price, please refer to https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/. There are three types: Free, Pro and Premium.

3. Please refer to the solution provided by dimazaid in this thread, you need to add your on-prem files/folders connection instead of the SQL Server connection.

Best Regards,
Herbert