Extend the tabular data model to be cloud hosted without the 10 GB constraints in Power BI. Provide the ability to leverage Azure platform end-to-end for analytics. The combination of Azure SQL, Az...
Would be a great logical addition to the PowerBI service available. Having an enterprise tabular model with a single place to hold our DAX definitions and modelling logic would be valuable. Our analysts can access this cube on premise with Excel or in Excel Online workbook. Without a central tabular model in Azure, my analysts who wants to work in Excel (one of the greatest BI tools) against a cube would need to have the model (PowerPivot) embedded in their workbook. Once they do that, they need to worry about having a refresh schedule and a gateway online and available. I in IT need to worry about how to handle enhancement and bug fixes to that model that has been copied N number of times for each workbook. Our analysts like having an enterprise cube managed by IT (or Business power user), that they can connect to in Excel and build analytical reports (pivot tables/charts, slicers, etc.) and/or do ad-hoc analysis (drag/drop subtotaling, showing fields as % of, etc.) and share with others via One-Drive, network share, etc.
