PowerPivot data model as Source on Cloud

Hi All,
We have an excel workbook with a heavy powerpivot model. Can we use any Cloud services to segregate the powerpivot model and use it as a data source?
We have already accessed the PowerPivot Gallery on Sharepoint(On-Premise) and Tabular Cube solutions but both of them are On-Premise solutions and since we need a Cloud based solution; we have rejected both of them.
Also, regarding Cloud solution(if there's any), will it answer the following problem statements:-
Will it be possible to drive a light weight excel report by Powerpivot data model?
On Premise database based report refresh (using gateway)?
PowerPivot /Calculated Measures – will they be visible through data model?
Regards,
Amit

This is not currently possible, but I understand that it is in the works.
John

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Hi,
I've been using PowerPivot for a little while now but have finally given into the fact that my lack of knowledge about data modelling is causing me all kinds of problems.
I'm looking for recommendations on where I should start learning about data modelling for Powerpivot (and other software e.g. Tablea, Chartio etc). By data modelling I mean how I should best organise all the data that I want to analyse which is coming fomr
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I have bought two books - "Dax Formulas for PowerPivot" which is great but sparse on data modelling information and "Microsoft Excel 2013 - Building Data Models with PowerPivot" which looks excellent but starts of at I believe too advanced
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Where should a beginner with no experience of data modelling, but intermediate/advanced experience of Excel go to learn skills for PowerPivot Data modelling?
By far the main issues is that our MySQL databases are expansive and include hundreds of tables across multiple databases and we need to be able to utilise data from all of them. I imagine that I somehow need to come up with a intermediary layer between
the Databases and Powerpivot which extracts and flattens the main data into fewer more important tables, but would have no idea how to do this.
Also to be clear, I am not looking at ways of modelling the MySQL database itself - our developers are happy with the database relationships etc, it just the modelling of that data within PowerPivot and how to best import that data.
Recommendations would be absolutely brilliant, its a fantastic product but right now I'm struggling to make the most of it.

Thanks for the recommendations, I am aware of the last two of those and
http://www.powerpivotpro.com/ in particular has proved very useful (TechNet less so).
I will take a look at SQLBI in more detail but from a very casual browse it seems like this too is targeted more at experienced users. There paid courses may definitely prove useful though.
I think what I'm getting at is that there are probably an increasing number of people like myself who have fallen into PowerPivot without a traditional background in databases and data modelling. In my case I have a small business of
15 employees and we were using Excel and PivotTables to do some basic analysis before soon discovering that our data was too complicated and that I needed something. PowerPivot definitely seems to solve that issue and I'm having much
better success now than I was without. I also feel quite competent with DAX and actually building tables from the PowerPivot data model.
What I'm lacking in is the very first step of cleaning and preparing raw data for import and then importing it into Powerpivot and setting up a efficient model. I have to be honest that your links above did bring
PowerQuery to my attention and it seems like a brilliant tool and one of the missing links. I would however still like to see a beginners guide to data import and model set-up as I don't think I've yet come across one either in book or
online form which explains the fundamentals well.

Problem connecting PowerPivot's (Office 2013) Data Model deployed on SharePoint 2013 to data source.

Hello:
Our configurations is as follow : SharePoint 2013 is on Server A; SQL Server Analysis server (SQL 2014) is on DB Server B;
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But when I uploaded this workbook to our SharePoint PowerPivot gallery and was trying to refresh data, I got the connection error: It’s very long but the ErrorCode is “rsCannotRetriveModel”. The end of the error message is:
'TemporaryDataSource'.</Message><MoreInformation><Source>Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SPClient</Source>
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<MoreInformation><Source></Source><Message>We were unable to refresh one or more data connections in this workbook.
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<MoreInformation><Source>Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.WebServices</Source><Message>
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</MoreInformation></MoreInformation></MoreInformation></MoreInformation><Warnings xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/reportingservices" /></detail>
Our Excel Services on the SharePoint work fine and refresh data on different excel workbooks (with no Data Model) just fine. We are using an unattended account for Excel Services to connect from SharePoint server to our databases. Found a few references
on the topic, tried them but with no luck.
Please advise!
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Hi Jeff,
Firstly, I need to confirm whether you are refreshing Data connection in browser, since Data Refresh is not supported in Office Web Apps. Please refer more information in this article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/excel_services__powerpivot_for_sharepoint_support_blog/archive/2013/01/31/powerpivot-for-sharepoint-browser-refresh-fails-data-refresh-not-supported-in-office-web-apps.aspx
From the error "Call to Excel Services returned an error", please verify the location of the
data source, for example an Excel workbook, is registered as a trusted location with Excel Services:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219699(v=office.15).aspx
Since you are using unattended account for Excel Services to connect from SP to databases, I wonder if the issue occurs to unattended referesh, if so, please refer to:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3870.troubleshoot-powerpivot-data-refresh.aspx#Problems_using_the_Unattended_data_refresh_account
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Data Model won't open

I have created a PowerPivot data model using Excel 2013. It runs fine on my computer (the one where I built it), but will not open in other computers. All computers have the same 64 bit version of PowerPivot 2013 and run on Windows 8.
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Hey
I am facing the following problem which is absolutely persistent and annoying in nature. I am using a data model created with PowerPivot with connections to three different SQL servers and 25 tables. The bug is that every time I refresh my data, a table
that was initially added to the data model (and later removed) is replicated in equivalent number of tables that use this connection, which is currently around 12 tables, so I get 12 duplicates of the same unnecessary table on every refresh, named with the
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I am using 64-bit Office 2013 with the recent SP1 upgrade and the included PowerPivot plug-in on a Windows 8.1 machine.
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I'm attempting to use the PowerPivot add-on in Excel. When clicking 'Manage Data Model' or attempting to 'Load to data model,' I receive the error 'We couldn't load the Data Model. This may be because the Data Model in this workbook is damaged.',
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Have you ever tried to repair your office?
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