Hello,
My question is to the experts on licensing or the community support leads.
During our last internal governance meeting, I was informed that from May 2022 all users(app makers+end users) will require a premium license if the power app or the flow contains any premium connectors? Can anyone have more details around this? I looked around official Microsoft licensing page and guides, but it’s comprehensive and confusing?
In my case, some of our production apps & flows and many in the pipeline use SQL connector to get the master data and pass it on to the flow or app. Sometimes It’s a simple text box performing a search function or sometimes a flow executing a complex stored procedure or power query. The results will be passed on to the app or the rest of branches of flow to perform different actions. Later, we use SP lists for all other data needs. We generally don’t anything back to SQL. So, this is a key step for an app or flow’s survival.
Halfway through the development, SQL joined the premium connectors club, but we continued to use as the warning prompt mentioned the end users require at least P1 license to use the app/flow when a premium connector is involved. Fortunately, our company providers E3 license to all our end users which covers the P1. Once Microsoft starts charging, the assumption is only makers would need to be on a P2 license in order to build apps or flows. Is this not the case anymore? If it isn’t then how can it be justified to pay premium licenses for a large volume vs investing the same or less in professional software development? From the little I’ve known, power platform is supposed to be low code and low cost model to build and deploy business apps rapidly.
If this becomes a reality then a lot of things in our pipeline would fall off as the business won’t have appetite to go out in the market for every business need. If anyone have any information regarding this, please share. It will help us decide to stick to the platform or ditch all the efforts.
Thanks in advance!!
sasi
