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...
This would be great addition i.e the abilty to host large models in a paas tabular layer. We have some clients that want to use powerbi to query models containing billions of rows. Direct query to sql with these volumes is fairly sluggish and ssas hosted on a vm restricts a large amount of self service functionality. Having the same user experience coupled with the abilty to publish these large models would be ideal. A billing model similar to azure data warehouse would work well i.e separating cpu/memory consumption from physical storage. A model could be paused and hence unloaded from memory, or left running to ensure the model is always cached and hence immediately responsive to the end user. As a step further the idea of applying an mpp approach to ssas tabular where data is distributed across multiple tabular instances could allow for far greater volumes. Understand this would be a big architectural step, but could be great.
