{"id":10255,"date":"2018-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/can-you-do-traditional-bi-in-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:13:07","slug":"can-you-do-traditional-bi-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/can-you-do-traditional-bi-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Do Traditional BI in the Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><strong>With all the focus on cloud and Azure, have you ever wondered if you can run your traditional BI workloads within Azure?<\/strong> You may ask, <strong>should we be putting our traditional BI workloads that we\u2019ve been using like the SQL Stack, SSIS, SSAS and relational databases in Azure<\/strong>; can we even do that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The answer \u2013 <strong>yes; there are components and capabilities with Azure, and you can utilize those to migrate what you\u2019re doing on-premise to Azure.<\/strong> The first way you can do this is to <strong>run them via SQL VMs within the Azure cloud<\/strong>. You can <strong>spin up SQL Server<\/strong> and everything you need there. As far as <strong>SSIS, analysis services and SQL Server, you can solve it just like you did on-prem<\/strong>, but run it within the cloud. Then you can take advantage of everything you get within an IaaS implementation.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is now <strong>you can run all these components as Platform as a Service (PaaS) as well. So as SQL Server we can use Azure SQL Database.<\/strong> <strong>For workloads with larger-sized volumes<\/strong>, distributed queries or distributed big data within a SQL environment,<strong> Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a great solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previously, we couldn\u2019t run SSIS packages within the cloud, but with capabilities within Azure Data Factory, we can now do this as a platform, without having to manage the server, cutting down on maintenance tasks and the daily chores of checking our server.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With SSAS, we have Azure Analysis Services, which works like a tabular instance of SSAS on-prem<\/strong>. We can employ tabular models there and run them in the cloud. So, <strong>we can orchestrate all these things together and take advantage of the PaaS capabilities that we get there. Once we&#8217;re there, we gain the ability to orchestrate Data Lakes and put real time and advanced analytics on top of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-responsive-embed-wrapper hs-responsive-embed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; max-width: 560px; max-height: 315px; min-width: 256px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;\">\n<div class=\"hs-responsive-embed-inner-wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZCnxGnSpJBM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been waiting for good Platform as a Service offerings to go to the cloud, the time is now. And Azure is the answer.<\/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>With all the focus on cloud and Azure, have you ever wondered if you can&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10255","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\/10255","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=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}