Technical requirements
In this section, you will need to deploy and have running the multidimensional model (WideWorldImportersMD) that you created in Chapter 3, Preparing Your Data for Multidimensional Models, Chapter 4, Building a Multidimensional Cube in SSAS 2019, and Chapter 5, Adding Measures and Calculations with MDX. You will also need the tabular model we expanded in Chapter 6, Preparing Your Data for Tabular Models, deployed and running (WideWorldImportersTAB). We will not be working with the workspace version of your tabular models. You will also need Microsoft Excel to work through the hands-on work in this chapter. All of the examples in this chapter will be using the latest version of Excel in Office 365 ProPlus at the time of writing (the May 2020 release). Because Excel is updated continually via a subscription model, some examples may look different for you.