What are the various versions of Power BI?

Ans:

1) Power BI Desktop

Power BI Desktop is a free application you install on your local computer

that lets you connect to, transform, and visualize your data. With Power BI
Desktop, you can connect to multiple different sources of data, and
combine them into a data model. This data model lets you build visuals,
and collections of visuals you can share as reports, with other people inside
your organization. Most users who work on business intelligence projects
use Power BI Desktop to create reports, and then use the Power BI
service to share their reports with others.

The most common uses for Power BI Desktop are as follows:

• Connect to data.
• Transform and clean data to create a data model.
• Create visuals, such as charts or graphs that visually represent
the data.
• Create reports that are collections of visuals on one or more
report pages.
• Share reports with others by using the Power BI service.

People who are responsible for such tasks are often considered data
analysts (sometimes referred to as analysts) or business intelligence
professionals (often referred to as report creators). Many people who don't
consider themselves analysts or a report creators use Power BI Desktop to
create compelling reports, or to pull data from various sources. They can
build data models, and then share the reports with their coworkers and
organizations.

2) Power BI Service

Microsoft is not very strict about naming conventions, however, based on

functionalities and license fees, Power BI Service can be divided into two
types:

1. Power BI Pro Service

2. Power BI Premium Service
 1. Power BI Pro Service: Power BI Pro is a single-user cloud-based
software as a service application. With Power BI Pro, you can share
your reports, data, visualizations, and dashboards with the other users
who have Power BI. Power BI Pro Service is charged on a per user
basis.
2. Power BI Premium Service: Power BI Premium on the other hand
caters to the needs of large organizations and enterprises. By contrast
with Power BI Pro Service, this is charged for on a capacity basis. Put
simply this is a combination of data size and computation capacity
required. It allows for unlimited viewers of the data although creators
of data visualizations must have a Pro license for Power BI

3) Power BI Apps

Power BI designers create official packaged content, then distribute the

content to a broad audience organized as an app. Apps are created in
workspaces where members can collaborate on Power BI content with their
colleagues. They publish the finished app to individuals, large groups of
people in an organization, or an entire organization. An app can have
permissions that are different than the permissions set on a workspace. This
capability makes it easier for designers to manage permissions on an app.

An app combines related content, like dashboards, spreadsheets, semantic

models, and reports, all in one place. An app has one or more of each
content type bundled together. There are many ways a designer can share
an app.