Azure Analysis Services Intro

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With Azure Analysis Services you can scale your Power BI reports up to tens and hundreds of gigabytes of data. It is very fast in-memory database and analytical progressing engine with all the benefits of cloud scaling and security.

Intro

In this episode I give you introduction to what Azure Analysis Services is and how can it scale your reporting solutions.

Agenda

In a short demo I will show you

• What is Analysis Services and how it works?
• What is Azure Analysis Services?
• What is common data model and how it solves your BI reporting development challenges?
• How to provision Analysis Services?
• Quick demo of building models with Visual Studio
• Quick demo of loading data to Power BI vs Analysis Services
• Deploying Analysis Services models
• Attaching Power BI reports to Analysis Services
• Implementing enterprise deployment with BISM normalizer

Video

Next steps for you after watching the video

1. Azure Analysis Services documentation

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/analysis-services-overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

2. Getting Started with Azure Analysis Services Hands on Labs

• https://www.microsoft.com/handsonlabs/selfpacedlabs/details/SQ00164

3. More on common data model and its benefits

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-model/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556