Creating Enterprise Grade BI Models with Azure Analysis Services 5/27/2018 9:34 AM BRK3360 Creating Enterprise Grade BI Models with Azure Analysis Services Christian Wade Senior Program Manager @_christianWade © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Demo: Interactivity at the Speed of Thought

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

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

Azure Analysis Services Architecture 5/27/2018 9:34 AM 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 © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Demo: Azure Portal & Automation

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

Azure Analysis Services capabilities at a glance 5/27/2018 9:34 AM 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 © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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

Self-Service & Corporate BI … 5/27/2018 9:34 AM 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. © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Azure Analysis Services 5/27/2018 9:34 AM 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 © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Demo: bridge the gap between self-service & corporate BI

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

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

5/27/2018 9:34 AM Further Info Power BI Governance & Deployment Approaches: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/documentation/powerbi-admin-governance/ Gartner Research Paper by Kurt Schlegel et al. (2016): Create a Centralized and Decentralized Organizational Model for Business Intelligence Analysis Services Team Blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/analysisservices/ Analysis Services Git Repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/Analysis-Services/ /AsPartitionProcessing/Automated Partition Management for Analysis Services Tabular Models.pdf /BismNormalizer/Model Comparison and Merging for Analysis Services.pdf © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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