Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Step by Step, First Edition

10 Develop Power BI reports from SSAS cube

In this chapter:

• Basic terminology

• Import data from an SSAS cube into Power BI

• Create a Power BI report

• Set up and configure a data gateway

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to build a Power BI report that relies on data from a SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cube. You’ll also learn how to set up a data gateway to work with the SSAS cube. First, however, this chapter offers definitions of key terms that relate to SSAS cubes.

Practice files

As you work through this chapter, you’ll use one practice file, which you can access from the book’s companion website at https://aka.ms/PowerBIDash/downloads in the following folder: MSPBIDashboards\ch10. The file is as follows:

• SSAS SampleCube.pbix This ...