It would be handy to secure attributes in SSAS OLAP in a way that confidential attributes are only shown to a specific user group. Example: if you take customer-dimension in Adventure-Works attribute "birth date". (out of simplification) all user should be able to see all customers but only some users should be able to "see" birth-date. An allowed User should be able to show "birth date" as a propertie of costumer. if a restricted user opens the same report attribute "birth date" shouldn't be shown at all but still all other customer-related informations. ... View more

Updatable database snapshots - Allow sparse files to manage new writable snapshots - start with read only databases - it will allow to create one copy of core development db and various versions of qa/dev/reporting copies with minimum space to test large set of data for various teams. ... View more

Being able via an API / web address to trigger a source refresh – we have sources that could take 4 to 5 hours but sometime it can take more. Scheduling the refresh at a given time you may miss a refresh cycle / or refreshing the data every hour while the source is updated only once a day is using resources for nothing. Being able to trigger a refresh “automatically” at the end of the job process would allow to coordinate tasks (DB refresh, Cube refresh, Excel file refresh and then PowerBI refresh). ... View more

Latest details on vNext say native support of WebForms will not be available and this will be delivered as an addon in future. With the change in strategy how about building a report viewer I can embed in ASP.NET MVC and/or other ASP.NET hosted frameworks? We still have to embed a webform in our MVC apps just to integrate SSRS Reports. It would be great to have proper integration and better control in ASP.NET without the need of webforms ... View more

The server side story of PowerQuery is missing. Self service BI via Excel is great but what if you want to deploy your idea on a SSAS server? You cannot do that! Excel is your only target. ... View more

Rendering includes tons of viewstate data that make the output very heavy. Reduce viewstate and page size ... View more

PowerPivot in Excel supports several types of data sources. But once you deploy your model on SSAS tabular, the only supported data source is SQL Server!? There are known issues with .csv data sources for Tabular models: Once you encounter a lock on a .csv file during processing, the next time SSAS Tabular will crash. Please support the other types of data sources in SSAS Tabular. ... View more

You cannot change a data source type (e.g. .scv --> sql server) You have to copy-past every calculated column, measure and relationship one by one and then finally delete the Original data source tab and rename the new one back to the old name. ... View more

Vertical rendering of text is must be supported in Non IE browsers. ... View more

System Administrator ought to be able to see all subscriptions running on their system to schedule subscriptions to fire at non-peak hours or to avoid heavy reports hitting their SSRS servers all at once. We shouldn't have to buy or develop anything separate to do this. ... View more

Tableau works its magic with dates just based on date fields in a set. Power BI workbooks and Power BI designer would be super simplified if there was an inherent calendar built into the product based on setting a date column in a table as *the* Calendar date (the one you intend to group and set filter context in your Time Intelligence functions). This also eliminates the need to explain to analysts the variety of options for handling analysis and time intelligence functions on different dates (Order Date, Ship Date, Received Date). ... View more

Is multidimensional SSAS support for PowerBI only going to be available with SQL 2016 or will it be available with SQL 2012? ... View more

In powerview i often comen across a matrix i would like to create but with the measure names on the rows instead of the columns. ... View more

Change Print Control Active X Control design to enable User able to print from Any Browser ... View more

Simple optimization - construct a sentence from column headers to benchmark - predict - prescribe action - See the MS tool here - altabering.com/demo/ ... View more

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Add a connector to SAP to accelerate creating BI on SAP database, SAP BW etc.. ... View more

Enable Power BI to support analysis like performance point services. so user can slice and dice data graphically and also make drillthrough / custom actions available from the OLAP cube so user can retrieve the raw data from their analysis. Also, give user a opportunity to save the drillthrough query or drillthrough result (raw data) into SQL or in the flat file. ... View more

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