As sad as it is, there needs to be focus on one way forward - that appears to be tabular. A migration path is needed, but having the two models is confusing and becoming unnecessary. Even if full sup...
This is an extremely obtuse assertion. Multidimensional cubes are a different architecture which has its place in the enterprise and more often I find myself having to deploy both tabular and multidimensional models. Tabular has some advantages but it haves some serious limitations as well, and this is simply the way it is. In fact the more I use SSAS in tabular mode the more I find its limitations to be infuriating. One might as well say they want to deprecate pencils because of pens. If MSFT ever deprecated MD models they would be losing their competitive advantage to the likes of IBM and Oracle.
