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When will Multidimensional and Tabular be merged?
There are no plans to merge Multidimensional and Tabular. There are plans for connectivity to both with Tabular already enabled today. To view planned feature requests, check out User Voice https://support.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi.
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MD and Tabular co-exists very well because both have different workload. MD is more Enterprise ready than Tabular and require less HW resources (CPUs and Memory). My suggestion is to understand the differences between models and choose the one or other depending by the project request.
I would be very careful stating that either Tabular or Multidimensional is more or less enterprise ready or that one requires more or less hardware resources than the other.
Here is a good whitepaper that helps you decided which one to use and when. My personal rule of thumb is to consider Tabular first and use Multidimensional as a Plan B option.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh994774.aspx
