Life cycle management with Premium
In addition to the enhanced life cycle management capabilities of Power BI Premium described in the Power BI deployment pipelines section of Chapter 10, Managing Workspaces and Content, the write capabilities of the XMLA endpoint enable additional capabilities with regard to life cycle management of datasets assigned to Premium capacities.
Specifically, given the write capabilities of the XMLA endpoint, the recommended tool for deploying incremental changes to datasets becomes the ALM Toolkit from MAQ Software, which is based on the BISM Normalizer by Christian Wade.
ALM Toolkit deployment
ALM Toolkit is a free, open source tool that enables the object-level comparison of source and target datasets and the incremental deployment of changes such as new or revised DAX measures. ALM Toolkit can be downloaded from http://alm-toolkit.com.
Once downloaded, simply run the .msi
installer file to install. After installation, ALM Toolkit is...