What’s the role of XMLA endpoint in Power BI Premium?

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The XMLA endpoint provided within Power BI Premium is vital to effective enterprise-scale data modeling and improving interaction with external tools, like SSMS for example. It provides read and write access to your datasets so, you can administer your Power BI models using professional tools like SSMS, Tabular Editor and Excel as you would with Analysis Services models. This functionality allows organizations the opportunity to perform advanced functions like version control, automated deployments and editing of model metadata which considerably improves the development processes.


As part of a complete Power BI Course in Pune, students are introduced to the concept of XMLA endpoints and how to use XMLA to externally access your Power BI Premium datasets. The course introduces you to practical use cases such as automating model refreshes and incorporating version control systems.


As part of the practical activities for Power BI Classes in Pune students explored connecting using XMLA within Tabular Editor and SSMS to manage your dataset objects e.g., measures, relationships and calculation groups.


In the advanced Power BI Training, XMLA endpoints were explored further, especially in relation to use with automation, deployment pipelines and health monitoring via scripting and DevOps. The features provided by XMLA endpoints make it a key feature for the BI teams that work together in a governed fashion.