Updated: July 23, 2020 (April 23, 2018)

Azure Analysis Services Adopts Power Query, Improves Performance

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Azure Analysis Services is a hosted service, based on SQL Server 2017 Analysis Services, that provides business intelligence data modeling and processing for creating analytic applications.
Updates introduce support for the M language (Power Query), the data query technology used in Power BI and Excel, which significantly increases the number of data sources available to the service.
Performance improvements include larger models and scale-out features to support complex, distributed workloads.

Service Overview

Azure Analysis Services (AAS) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) analytics offering based on SQL Server Analysis Services. It provides business intelligence (BI) semantic modeling for analytical processing and data mining of large, complex data sets to guide business decisions. Organizations typically load data into Analysis Services databases (called models) from operational or transactional sources, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) databases and other business applications, to organize it for efficient analysis.

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