Microsoft released a major feature to enable the high-performance analysis of large amounts of data in a manageable way by implementing Aggregations in Power BI.

This feature is well known and used as an important performance optimization feature of Analysis Services Multidimensional. Compared to this the Aggregations available in Power BI offer a much more user-friendly and intuitive way of approaching this goal. But is this feature as powerful as the "mighty brother"? And is the handling still as easy under some closer inspection?

During this session, we will compare Aggregations in different Analysis Services engines and will highlight similarities and differences. In addition, we will dive into architectural approaches for implementing Aggregations in Power BI. We will point out strengths and weaknesses of different services and components to achieve a holistic analytical solution.