To follow up on my previous post on the same subject, a customer was eager to jump on the Power BI->On Prem SSAS bandwagon and try the simplified security model. But "omne initium difficile est" (every beginning is difficult). Their SSAS server was installed on a domain acme.com while their e-mail addresses were using a different scheme, e.g. user@contoso.com, although both server and accounts were…
Read articleAs you've probably heard, Power BI vNext will allow you to keep your data on premises in SSAS MD and Tabular data models while your reports in the cloud can connect to these data models on premises. Currently, the Analysis Services connector support only Tabular models while plans for MD have been announced as well. Currently, SSAS understand Windows security only and you might wonder…
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One of the biggest strengths of Microsoft self-service BI is the ability to create sophisticated data models on a par with organizational BI models built by professionals. This fact is often overlooked when organizations evaluate self-service tools and the decision is often made based on other factors but not insightful understanding of the data model capabilities. This is unfortunate because most popular tools on the…
Read articleI've been pestering Microsoft for years to provide an embedded Analysis Services Viewer control (similar to the SSRS ReportViewer) that would allow developers to embed interactive reports on custom Windows Forms and web applications. And, for years nothing happened, even after Microsoft acquired the Dundas OLAP Chart control in 2008. There are some positive signs on that end lately. Microsoft just rolled out the ability…
Read articleAs you've probably head, Office 2013 supports now two installation options: the traditional MSI-based installation and the new Click-To-Run streaming installation. Chris Webb mentioned about it here and Melissa Coates describes how it works in more details here. The MSI setup is a perpetual one (you pay for a version once and you're entitled to fixes for it) while the C2R setup is a subscription-based…
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In my previous blog on the Power BI subject, I've introduced you to Power BI. In this blog, we'll take a look at the Data Management Gateway and how to set up data sources to refresh on-premise data. I'll be quick to point out that the actual data refresh is not in the preview yet. The Data Management Gateway is implemented as a Windows service…
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