Azure Analysis Services
Azure Analysis Services (AAS) is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering in Microsoft Azure for enterprise-grade data modeling. It provides a highly scalable and performant analytics engine, primarily based on the tabular model of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), enabling users…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Azure Analysis Services was created to address the challenges of deploying, managing, and scaling on-premises SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) deployments. It provides a fully managed cloud service for hosting tabular semantic models, eliminating the need for customers to provision, patch, backup, or maintain server infrastructure, while offering elastic scalability and better integration with other Azure services.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Azure
Related technologies
Notable users
- Organizations migrating existing SSAS tabular solutions to the cloud
- Companies requiring robust semantic layers for self-service BI
- Large enterprises leveraging the Microsoft BI stack