Azure Analysis Services
When your Power BI reports take five minutes to load and your Excel CUBE functions time out, the problem usually isn't the report — it's the data model behind it. Azure Analysis Services sits between your data warehouse and your reporting tools, pre-aggregating complex calculations so dashboards open in seconds instead of minutes. We design and build the tabular models that make this actually work.
- Tabular Models
- DAX Measures
- Power BI
- Row-Level Security
A properly built Analysis Services model changes how people use data in your business. When reports respond in under two seconds, analysts stop worrying about whether a query will time out and start asking better questions instead.
What We Actually Build
Analysis Services isn't just a performance cache — it's where agreed business logic lives. The same revenue definition, fiscal year calculation, and market hierarchy should produce the same number whether someone looks in Power BI, Excel, or a web app. We build that single source of truth.
Tabular Model Design
Fact and dimension tables, relationships, hierarchies, and calculated columns modeled correctly from your data warehouse schema.
DAX Measures & KPIs
Business logic in DAX — time intelligence, running totals, period-over-period comparisons, and custom KPIs built to your specification.
Row-Level Security
Security at the model level — sales reps see their own region, managers see their team, executives see everything. Enforced automatically.
Power BI & Excel Integration
Published to a model endpoint so Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Excel, and custom applications all connect to the same single model.
How We Work
- 1
Requirements Workshop
We gather every report, KPI, and calculation your team needs before opening the model designer.
- 2
Model Design
Schema design, relationship cardinality, DAX measure catalog, and RLS role structure planned before any build.
- 3
Build & Test
Model built and measures tested with real data, validated against known source numbers before release.
- 4
Publish & Connect
Deployed to Azure, refresh schedule configured, Power BI datasets connected, and security roles tested end to end.
What You Get
Analysis Services instance configured and deployed on the right tier
Tabular model with fact tables, dimensions, and all relationships
Full DAX measure catalog covering all agreed KPIs and calculations
Row-Level Security roles mapped to your organizational structure
Scheduled refresh configuration with failure alerting
Power BI or Excel connection documentation and walkthrough
Who This Is For
Finance teams with slow Excel reports
Replace direct SQL queries in Excel with an Analysis Services connection — the same CUBE functions, but results in under a second instead of two minutes.
Businesses standardizing metrics across teams
One model with agreed definitions means every analyst's report shows the same revenue figure. Disagreements in board meetings about the numbers stop happening.
Power BI deployments that outgrew Direct Query
As report counts and user numbers grow, Direct Query to SQL becomes slow and expensive. Analysis Services absorbs that load and makes the whole report fleet faster.
Common Questions
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