BI strategy for the SME

Hi all,
First of all I live in Belgium so I cant preview any of this software:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerbi/default.aspx
Now most of my customers are SME in the fashion industry and we are going to develop a data warehouse platform where they connect to with a client application to view KPI's, scorecards and dashboards. Most of them have a SQL Server on site now here comes
the challenge.
1) We know how the data warehouse looks like, it will also be made in Sql Server. Now we want to put it in the Cloud so they will always have access to there data. Does it matter where we host it? In a datacenter or Azure?
2) What would be the best way to upload the local data to the warehouse? A VPN connection to the datacenter, webservices?
3) What would be the role of Power BI in this story? Will it only pass the data to the clients (ios app and Excel) so may I see it as a Client tool? or is there a possibility to create the warehouse in Power BI?
Thanks for the clarifications!

My experience with the power bi preview and the US only restriction is that it's limited to your email being a .com and selecting 'United States' as your country. So just register a .com domain for a few bucks from a registar that supports email forwarding
and you should be able to get your hands on it :)
re your questions
Can't really help with 1 or 2, but it depends on the size of your data and which option gives you the best throughput and i/o for your money, and whether you plan on using any of the other features that come with azure. I don't see how you could load anything
using webservices though unless your dataset is tiny.
although if i had to make a call, If you're going to be putting it in azure you'll need to use the heavy IO VMs and install sql server. I don't think azure sql can be used for any kind of data warehousing at the moment.. not enough optimisation features
and i don't think it supports backing up/restoring using .BAKs to on-premise and vice versa.
3. both, although the semantic models that are persisted inside PowerBI are limited (excel powerpivot only at the moment - it supports an api generated dataset and a model created in the powerbi designer, but these aren't as feature rich as the full
v2 powerpivot/bism model). The new powerbi preview supports on-premise tabular cubes according to the doco (haven't tested this yet, haven't been able to get the AD working) so it will work as a front end tool. I think it sends the dax direct to the cube
and then visualises the result.
Jakub @ Adelaide, Australia Blog

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