What level of effort does it take to support Power BI Premium?

[sbeste]

I'm evaluating Power BI Premium for my company of 3,000 people. It uses a lot of technologies that we don't use today - Azure, Office 365, Azure Active Directory... We would use these only for Power BI Premium.

--> What % of a full-time engineer are we going to need to support that stack? Does anyone have some actual experience on this?

Thanks

[Greg_Deckler]

In general, since all of these are "as a service" there really is not much to support. You would install a small software product called Azure AD Connect on-premises to sync your users to Azure AD. At that point, you can assign Power BI licenses as needed. There are no servers to patch or anything like that, it is really all on Microsoft to keep things running. There are organizations of your size and larger that do not have a single dedicated resource for the aspects that you are talking about.

[sbeste]

That's an encouraging answer. No dedicated person! Still, this technology stack is surely going to need some kind of support. Gateways come and go. Versions of the software change, both on-premises and in the cloud. Stuff happens, and who would we call? If you were bidding to be our go-to person to keep it all working, what fraction of a full-time person would you estimate?

Thanks,

Steve