Updated: July 24, 2024 (July 24, 2024)
RoadmapAnalysis Services Roadmap
Azure Analysis Services (AAS) is a cloud analytics service based on SQL Server Analysis Services that provides business intelligence (BI) semantic modeling. The service is used for analytical processing and data mining of large, complex datasets to guide business decisions. The service can be deployed quickly, scaled to meet demand, and paused when not in use in order to control costs.
Product: Analysis Services
Near Term (2024–2025)
Most significant advancements in AAS stopped at the end of 2020, when Microsoft stated it was focusing on Analysis Services in Power BI. However, the service continues to receive new links to other Azure services like the new OneLake environment, and the core Analysis Services engine was updated to SQL Server 2022 and still receives the usual SQL Server patches.
The last update brought several new performance features, including the following:
- Combining queries from multiple small plans into larger query plans, a process called horizontal fusion
- Running independent
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