More and more practical information around working with tabular data models is starting to appear as more and more sites get deployed.

At SQL Down Under, we've already helped quite a few customers move to tabular data models in Analysis Services and have started to collect quite a bit of information on what works well (and what doesn't) in terms of performance of these models. We've also been running a lot of training on tabular data models.

It was great to see a whitepaper on the performance of these models released today.

Performance Tuning of Tabular Models in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services was written by John Sirmon, Greg Galloway, Cindy Gross and Karan Gulati. You'll find it here:

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn393915.aspx