
The development of enterprise-level models for Power BI Premium and Analysis services requires both the Microsoft tools and a set of third-party tools – most of them open-source – to get the job done. This article describes the role of these tools in more detail, and why they are required to access advanced features and improve the productivity of the development process. In a specific post on the Power BI blog, Microsoft explains that community and third-party tools are a fundamental part of the toolbelt required to develop enterprise models in Power BI and Analysis Services.

The development tools to create enterprise-level models for Analysis Services and Power BI require some clarification.

They discussed the past, present, and future of the development tools for Power BI and Analysis Services models with the authors of the more important tools out there: Tabular Editor and DAX Studio! You can watch the recorded Development Tools for Power BI and Analysis Services models – Live Event with Marco Russo, Daniel Otykier, Darren Gosbell, and Alberto Ferrari.

While a few of the features are not yet available in Power BI Premium – and that may stop a few companies from migrating to Power BI Premium – the licensing available in Power BI Premium Per User is making the transition a no-brainer for many small-to-medium companies. Microsoft recently announced the more recent improvements to make Power BI Premium a superset of Azure Analysis Services.
