Add ability for Excel workbooks to have a live connection to SSAS

[sreinman]

At this point, only Excel workbooks with a power pivot data model can work in Power BI. It would be great to have the ability to upload Excel workbooks that are connected to our on-prem analysis services to be refreshable as well. The same way that the analysis services connector works for PowerBI reports, perhaps that connector can be extended to uploaded Excel workbooks as well.

[dane_poorter]

I was surprised when this didn't work - I would have thought this would be the easiest migration path for people working with SSAS data to move from Excel to Power BI.

[alistair2]

I see this has been planned since March 2016. Any update on this?

[jjuelke]

please vote also here in Excel Online Uservoice https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/274580-excel-online/suggestions/33793252-pivottables-created-with-power-bi-using-analyze-in

[jochenj3]

planned since 2016 lol 😉

[fbcideas_migusr]

Still no updates?

[fbcideas_migusr]

From my perspective, what I want to do is enable workspace users to edit an excel workbook in Power BI service Excel Online or publish to Power BI from excel, and have the workbook be included as a data source in Power BI desktop or in general in reports.

Right now, Excel Workbooks don't appear in one lake so it doesn't appear to be a data source even if it appears as a workbook for viewing in Power BI service. In PowerBI desktop there is no way to add a workbook from PowerBI as a dataset, which makes having the workbook in the service somewhat useless in terms of making reports. And that seems like an incomplete Excel Integration..