Datasources PowerBI Premium On-premises vs Cloud

[bobsel]

With all the buzz now on Power BI Premium I'm a little bit confused in possible datasources that you can connect to (with PBI Premium).

In my understanding if you buy the PowerBI Premium license you can set-up your PBI environment in 2 ways

A. In the CLOUD adressing some specific (v)cores in the cloud

B. On premises on local / your own hardware

With set-up A. you get your normal PBI but now with all the known datasources that you can connect to (so basically every possible common DB around)

But with set-up B. (on-prem) in the first release you can only connect to a MS SSAS model? (which in turn can connect to a variety of other data source) But..no other direct sources?? .even not CSV? Excel?

(source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlrsteamblog/2017/05/17/a-closer-look-at-power-bi-report-server )

That seems very restricting! Is this really the case??

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

I think this part of the blog article sums it up:

"With this first release, you connect directly to an Analysis Services data model, which in turn can connect to a variety of other data sources, including SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, and more. We aim to extend direct connectivity to the other Power BI Desktop data sources, targeting later this year."