Can a PRO license consume created dataflow´s with a PPU license?

[Morikata_BI]

Hello everybody,

To perform certain ETL operations when creating a dataflow, such as combining tables, the Power BI service asks me to have premium capacity. I currently have a PRO license.

If I buy a PPU subscription to create my dataflow, will my company's PRO licenses be able to consume them on their power bi desktop to generate their own datasets? Or will they need a PPU subscription as well?

I have read the official documentation and consulted various sources and it is not clear to me.

Thanks in advance

[bcdobbs · Accepted solution]

No I'm afraid you're closed in. You need a PPU licence to access a PPU dataflow.

The only way round it is to bring your own data lake:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/dataflows/dataflows-azure-data-lake-storag...

You can then use the ppu licence to do all the ETL and let users with pro licences consume the underlying csv files that get created direct from the datalake. You however then need to deal with permissions etc yourself.

[Morikata_BI]

Than´k you very much