1. Creating Enterprise Grade BI Models with Azure Analysis Services
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Creating Enterprise Grade BI Models with Azure Analysis Services
Christian Wade
Senior Program Manager
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2. Demo: Interactivity at the Speed of Thought

3. Azure Analysis Services
Enterprise grade analytics engine as a service
Build rich semantic models
Transform complex data into business user friendly semantic models
Gain insights at the speed of thought
Gain instant insights with in-memory cache using your preferred visualization tools
Proven technology
Based on powerful, proven SQL Server Analysis Services
Provision and scale with ease
Easy to deploy, scale, and manage as a platform-as-a-service solution

4. Connection Types in Power BI
Import
Direct Query
Live Connection to AS
Azure AS

5. Azure Analysis Services Architecture
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Azure Analysis Services Architecture
Cloud data sources
Cloud visualization tools
Azure Analysis Services
SQL Database
Other data sources
DirectQuery
DAX
Power BI
Import
MDX
SQL Data Warehouse
Gateway
On-premises data sources
Authoring and development tools
On-premises visualization tools
Other data sources
SQL Server
Visual Studio
Excel
DirectQuery
Import
Power BI Desktop
Third party BI tools
Oracle, Teradata
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6. Demo: Azure Portal & Automation

7. Demo Summary ARM Templates from Azure Portal
Application service principals
Azure Automation
Credential store
Import Modules: Azure.AnalysisServices & SqlServer
Runbook to refresh data

8. Azure Analysis Services capabilities at a glance
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Azure Analysis Services capabilities at a glance
Fully managed Platform-as-a-Service
99.9% uptime SLA
Scale out
Elastic scale up/down
Pause & resume
Up to 400 GB memory per server
SSAS management tool compatibility: SSMS, SQL Profiler, Deployment Wizard …
Azure Active Directory
Azure B2B support
Application service principals
Backup/restore
Unified Gateway
Firewall
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9. Microsoft BI Platform DATA Model Analyze & author Deliver Visualize
Power BI
Power BI
Azure Analysis Services
Web
Embedded in your apps
Mobile
Cloud
On –premises data gateway
On-premises
SQL Server
Analysis Services
SQL Server Reporting Services
Excel
Power BI Desktop

10. Self-Service & Corporate BI …
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Self-Service & Corporate BI …
> “Bimodal” BI
Self-service BI is characterized by having a large number of small models.
Corporate BI is characterized by having a small number of large models.
Kurt Schlegel et al. (2016) observes the following. Create a Centralized and Decentralized Organizational Model for Business Intelligence, Page 6. Retrieved from Gartner database; “Gartner Foundational”.
Local teams are being empowered to create and innovate. The centralized team identifies the most successful work being done at a local level, and provides a platform to share and promote this work globally.
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11. Azure Analysis Services
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Demo Architecture
Cloud data sources
Azure Analysis Services
Visualization & Insights
SQL Data
Warehouse
Power BI
Blob Storage
Configuration & logging
Cloud processing
SQL Database
Azure Functions
Authoring & Development
Self-Service Authoring
Power BI Desktop
Power BI Desktop
Visual Studio
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12. Demo: bridge the gap between self-service & corporate BI

13. Demo Summary Fine-grain partition management through API
BI schema-compare for application lifecycle management (ALM)
Power Query data integration
Deployment across environments

14. Corporate BI Features Automation
Partition management to refresh big datasets
Application lifecycle management (ALM)
Deployment across environments
Enhanced security
Enhanced modeling & analytics
Enhanced monitoring

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Further Info
Power BI Governance & Deployment Approaches:
Gartner Research Paper by Kurt Schlegel et al. (2016): Create a Centralized and Decentralized Organizational Model for Business Intelligence
Analysis Services Team Blog:
Analysis Services Git Repo:
/AsPartitionProcessing/Automated Partition Management for Analysis Services Tabular Models.pdf
/BismNormalizer/Model Comparison and Merging for Analysis Services.pdf
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