Moving BI to the Cloud: Ditch SSAS?
Possible Architectures 1: Power BI cloud on existing infrastructure The first option is the current situation at my customer's. Added an Enterprise Gateway to a rather 'classic' BI infrastructure, providing Power BI in the cloud. Variations are endless here - here's the essence I think: To get in depth knowledge on Microsoft business intelligence, enrich your skills on Msbi online training SSAS has several uses here: Semantic Model: Calculation (measures calculate correctly on different hierarchy levels) Abstraction (hiding of technical columns, providing perspectives, etc.) Row-level security (RLS; being not in SQL Server < 2016) Caching (performance achieved through local / in-mem storage; Columnstore Indexes may minimize the performance gap though) 2: Move DWH to the cloud SQL Datawarehouse is Microsoft's cloud offering for a scalable DWH: Can handle Petabyte+ data Upscale / downscale within seconds...