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Posted by Andy Brown on 08 July 2016
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What's new in SSAS Multi-Dimensional 2016 (Cubes)
As expected, Microsoft have made substantial changes to Analysis Services (Tabular Model) 2016, but the multi-dimensional model is (as far as I can see) unchanged.
I've already blogged on the fact that I think you'd be mad to choose multi-dimensional SSAS over tabular SSAS (particularly when Microsoft are so obviously only investing in the latter).
As an example of what hasn't changed, here's a cube in SSAS 2016 (multi-dimensional model):

Creating a cube - like everything else - seems unchanged between SSAS 2012 and 2016.
Spot the difference? Me neither. About the only difference I can find for SSAS 2016 multi-dimensional model is that you can create distinct count measure groups.