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Power BI - PPC (Premium per Capacity) to Microsoft Fabric

  • mandarp0
  • Mar 18, 2024
  • 3 min read

In an effort to unify their Power BI services to a singular Saas platform. Microsoft introduced Fabric. On 14th March 2024, they announced that they are retiring their PPC license and replacing it with a reservation Option (MACC) and Pay-as-you-go option.




Retirement Plan 


  • New customers will not be able to purchase Power BI Premium per capacity after July 1, 2024.

  • Existing customers without an Enterprise Agreement (EA) will be able to renew their Power BI Premium capacity subscriptions until January 1, 2025. Customers who have a renewal date after January 1, 2025 will need to replace their Power BI Premium capacity subscription purchase with the purchase of Fabric capacity at the end of their agreement.

  • Customers with an existing EA agreement can continue to renew their Power BI Premium capacity purchase annually until the end of their EA agreement. If the end of the existing EA agreement is after January 1st, 2025, they will have to transition to Fabric capacity once the agreement has ended to continue using Microsoft Fabric.

  • Customers on a sovereign cloud will not be impacted by this retirement as they do not currently have access to Microsoft Fabric. We will provide additional information as soon as it’s available.


All existing customers will be able to purchase more Power BI Premium capacity on their current agreement until its end date.Note:  Microsoft Fabric capacity is not compatible with the Power BI Report Server. To continue accessing the Power BI Report Server, you can instead acquire it through SQL Server Enterprise Edition with Software Assurance.


The Replacement 

Fabric Capacity covers the cost of all the services under the Fabric platform. Which means no need to pay for every individual service. You will have access to all the services and the capacity units will be consumed based on services you use.


There are 2 replacements for PPC : 


  • Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) is a commitment for Azure to leverage certain benefits over time.


    For example, Contoso made a MACC commitment of $50,000 in May. In June, they purchased an Azure Prepayment of $10,000. The purchase will decrease their MACC commitment and the remaining commitment will be $40,000. In June, Contoso consumed $10,000 of Azure Prepayment-eligible services. The service charges will be covered by their Azure Prepayment; however, the service charges won’t decrease their MACC commitment. Once the Azure Prepayment is fully used, all Azure service consumption and other eligible purchases will decrease their MACC commitment.

  • Pay-as-you-go option for Fabric enables you to dynamically scale up or scale down and pause capacity as needed.


    The table below is the pricing list for this option.



Migrating to Microsoft Fabric capacity

To migrate your Power BI and Fabric artefacts, you can simply reassign your workspaces to the new Fabric capacity. Administrators can even bulk assign workspaces to accelerate the process. You will be able to access your Power BI and Fabric artefacts for at least 90 days after the Power BI Premium capacity subscription has ended. During these 90 days, you will be able to migrate workspaces to your new Fabric capacity without fear of losing access to your existing work.

Impact on other Power BI licensing

Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium per user (PPU) are not impacted by this retirement. For Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric capacity is compatible with Power BI Embedded and can be used to run all of your embedded activities.


To read more about MACC, read the official documentation. 

To check out pricing, refer to the official link.

In case of doubt, refer to this link or reach out to us at connect@numlytics.com.



Note: This blog post is based on the information available as of March 14, 2024. For the latest updates and details, refer to official Microsoft announcements and documentation. 

 
 
 

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