Getting Started with Azure Analysis Services

Check Out Our Azure Blog - http://blog.pragmaticworks.com/topic/... Analysis Services is a powerful tool built for aggregating massive amounts of data. It makes querying easy for end users by providing a drag and drop user interface inside Excel and Power BI, delivering results in just seconds across billions of records.

Recently, Microsoft introduced Azure Analysis Services, a PaaS offering for the box version of the very popular SQL Server Analysis Services. In this session, we will discuss this new service, including service availability, requirements for deployment, migration from existing SSAS models to Azure AS, similarities (and differences) between Azure AS and SSAS and data refresh. You will also learn how to go from prototype to full enterprise model in minutes by leveraging your existing Power BI reports.