1. Cloud BI with Azure Analysis Services
Sergey Lunyakin
@slunyakin

2. Sponsors

3. About me DWH Developer at ITMagination inc.
Data Platform MVP, MCSE BI, MCSA Cloud
Leader of
Speaker at SQLSaturdays
Organizer of SQLSaturday in Lviv
Contacts:
@slunyakin

4. Agenda Semantic layer in BI solutions Analysis Services in the cloud
Performance levels
Data sources and exploration
Management and development

5. Semantic layer in BI

6. Analysis Services in the cloud
Managed SSAS Ent Tabular engine in the Azure Cloud (PaaS)
Supports 1200 compatibility level models
Pause and resume resources. Scale Up/Down – Soon!
Secure - Org AAD authentication (no LiveId), Azure Blob Server Side Encryption
Cloud and On-Premise data sources
Familiar tools (SSDT, SSMS, PowerShell)
Available: South Central US, West Central US, West Europe

7. Org AAD Authentication
Supports only Azure Active Directory organizational accounts
Workaround for LiveId
Go to Active Directory section at
Open Default domain (*.onmicrosoft.com)
Create new account
Set as Administrator during service provisioning

8. Performance levels
Level
QPUS
MEMORY (GB)
SLA
PRICE S1
100 25
None for Preview
$755.16/mo; $1.015/hr S2
200 50
$1,510.32/mo; $2.03/hr S4
400
$3,016.92/mo; $4.055/hr
Developer 20 3
None
$49.10/mo; $0.066/hr

9. Comparing with VMs Dv2 with MS SQL license
Level
QPUS
MEMORY (GB)
PRICE S1
100 25
$755.16/mo; $1.015/hr S2
200 50
$1,510.32/mo; $2.03/hr S4
400
$3,016.92/mo; $4.055/hr
VMs
Cores
MEMORY (GB)
PRICE*
D12 v2 4 28
$781.20/mo; $1.05/hr
D13 v2 8 56
$1,473.12/mo; $1.98/hr
D14 v2 16
112
$2,848.03/mo; $3.828/hr
MS SQL Server Standard:
16 GB RAM Limit
No Perspectives
No Partitions
No DirectQuery

10. Query processing units (QPUs)
Unit of measure in Azure Analysis Services
Based on a set of typical analytical queries and processing commands run on Azure and determines how many transactions are completed per second under fully loaded conditions
20 QPUs is about 1 pretty fast core

11. Demo

12. Data sources Cloud On-premises* SQL database SQL Server
SQL Data Warehouse
APS
Oracle
Teradata
* On-premises data sources require On-premises Data Gateway installation

13. Explore your data and connection
Cloud
On-premises
Power BI Service
Power BI Desktop
Power BI Embedded – coming soon
Excel
3rd party tool
Connection to asazure://<region>.asazure.windows.net/<servername>
Used port 443
Latest client providers are required

14. Management and Development for Azure AS
Azure Portal
PowerShell
Resume-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer
Suspend-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer
Get-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer
Remove-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer
Set-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer
Test-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer
New-AzureRmAnalysisServicesServer
SSMS
Enable Azure AD authentication for SSAS
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\Microsoft Analysis Services\Settings] "AS AAD Enabled"="True"
SSDT+DAX Editor
DAX Studio

15. Processing Cloud On-premises Azure functions + .Net SSMS
Azure Data Factory – Custom Activity
SSIS
Azure Automation - soon
SSDT
PowerShell

16. Demo

17. Summary PaaS Analysis Services Tabular engine
Enterprise-grade data modeling in the cloud
No CAPEX
Low OPEX – pay for only what you use
Go from conception to insight in hours
Flexible scale - coming soon
Pausing and resuming

18. Links

19. Sponsors

20. Thank you!