Demystifying Power BI — Back-end Platform, Capacities, and Licensing
A summary and overview of the Back-end Platform, Capacities, and Licensing in the Power BI ecosystem
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Power BI offers several back-end platforms to customers, including multiple cloud services and an on-premises version. The platforms vary by licensing model and support for content types, client tools, data hosting, features, performance, scaling, and security.
This article will discuss Power BI's back-end platform, subscriptions, capacities, users, and licenses. We will also compare capacities and licenses and how they affect the offered features and functionalities.
This article is a part of the multipart series on the Power BI ecosystem and continues the concepts introduced in the introduction article.
The back-end platform is the backbone of Power BI. The back-end platforms act as repositories for the following components:
