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Deployment with Live Connection to SSAS
Hi, we are planning to do an enterprise wide roll out of PowerBI. We desire that all the users have access to the data via live connection on SSAS. At this point I am a little bit confused abo...
For your on-prem SSAS using Live Connection, you need to deploy On-Prem Gateway. Since it is live connection, any user who will these dashboards/reports, data will come from your on-prem SSAS.
To make it work, yes, you need On-Prem Gateway.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-gateway-onprem-indepth/
Just to let you know we have the same setup and it works great.
Good luck and feel free to reach out if need more help.
Cheers,
P
just one small hickup on this though.
to my knoweledge the live connection to the SSAS is not supported by the Power BI embedded yet so if this is what you are planning you may want to wait.
ty,
C.K.