Azure Analysis Services Tutorial | Scale Power BI reports into hundreds of GBs

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.

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

Code sample: https://github.com/MarczakIO/azure4everyone-samples/tree/master/azure-analysiservices-introduction

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

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://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
3. More on common data model and its benefits
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-model/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

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