Hybrid, End-to-End; Power BI, Azure SQL Database, Data Factory

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With the announcement of Power BI a week ago and with great features in this product, there are many opportunities that this product and service can be used. Power BI can be used alongside some other Azure services, and even On-Premises services to build an end-to-end enterprise BI and Data Analysis Solution. In this post I’ll just explain one example scenario of Hybrid and End-to-End BI solution that uses below technologies;

  • Data Sources On-Premises
  • Azure Data Factory or SSIS with Azure Pack for Data extraction and transformation
  • Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Data Warehouse as the database / data warehouse engine in cloud
  • Power BI as the data analysis and front-end tool

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