Accessing MS Azure hosted services such as Azure Analysis Services from Power BI

Given that Power BI and Analysis Services tabular share the same database engine and because Azure Analysis Services eliminates the latency and infrastructure costs of communication between the Power BI Service and on-premises servers via the on-premises data gateway, organizations may consider migrating their Power BI and SSAS models to Azure Analysis Services per the previous recipe. As one example, the data source for a model such as teradata can remain on-premises but the scheduled or triggered model refresh process of model tables and table partitions would update the Azure-hosted model through the on-premises data gateway. In addition to the other cost and flexibility advantages of the Azure Analysis Services Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, Power BI premium capacities can enable all users to access the Power BI reports and dashboards built on top of Azure Analysis Services models.

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