{"id":10250,"date":"2018-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/model-options-for-enterprise-scale-bi-solutions\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:49:57","slug":"model-options-for-enterprise-scale-bi-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/model-options-for-enterprise-scale-bi-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"BI Model Options for Enterprise Scale BI Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s post I\u2019d like to talk about a hot topic for me and for many of my clients lately. This topic is about enterprise scale BI solutions\u2014serious solutions involving Power BI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Q8PAxf_Ay8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Basically, we have 3 options in how to develop and deploy our data model: Power BI Desktop, Analysis Services on premises or Azure Analysis Services. Let me break these down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Power BI Desktop<\/strong> \u2013 You can use this to develop the model and deploy to the Power BI Service. Developing models as we\u2019ve always done here has some limitations but that feature set and those capabilities are being expanded very quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Analysis Services on premises<\/strong> \u2013 We can use Analysis Services Tabular and if you\u2019ve established Analysis Services multi-dimensional models, you can also use those. I, myself though, am not using multi-dimensional for new projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Azure Analysis Services<\/strong> \u2013 This is Analysis Services Tabular in the cloud. This is a great option with cost savings with hardware investment and licensing since you just pay for use.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you why I\u2019m considering using Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service instead of using Analysis Services. Simple, that\u2019s where the product team is putting a lot of their resources. Although it\u2019s important to consider that you should have an appetite for new features and the rapid pace of design that Microsoft seems to be promoting lately.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re ok with that, I would take a serious look at continuing to use Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service to implement your models. With this option we have incremental refresh, row level security and many other great features that are coming and evolving quickly.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you want to slow down a bit and already have a cadence around developing Analysis Services, continue to use Visual Studio SSDT for your development. Then your choice will be whether to deploy on prem where you already have hardware or deploy to Azure Analysis Services.<\/p>\n<p>So, try it out, do what works for you. It\u2019s pretty inexpensive to get started and then do the math to figure out what a production implementation is going to look like.<\/p>\n<p>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s post I\u2019d like to talk about a hot topic for me and for&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-ai","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}