New SQL Server Tabular Projects for Analysis Services

Many people have stayed away from using SQL Server Analysis Services, because it takes a lot of time to understand the basics to get started. You need to understand the concepts of Dimensions, Measures, Hierarchies, Fact Tables and a lot of other new items that don't translate easily if you have been primarily working with just the SQL Server database engine.

In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced a new type of Analysis Services mode called Tabular Mode which is much easier to setup and get started with.