You are developing a SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) tabular project that will be used by the finance, sales, and marketing teams. The sales team reports that the model is too complex and difficul

Creating a separate tabular model for each team significantly multiplies development, deployment, and maintenance effort, which contradicts the requirement to minimize development and administrative work.

Setting the 'Hide from Client Tools' property on non-sales tables and columns in SSAS Tabular is a simple, low-effort administrative action that immediately reduces the structural complexity visible to the sales team. This approach requires no additional model artifacts such as perspectives, roles, or separate deployments, thereby minimizing both development time and ongoing administrative overhead.

Security roles in SSAS Tabular are designed to enforce row-level data security and restrict which data rows a user can see, not to simplify or filter the structural visibility of model objects for usability purposes.

Creating a perspective requires defining and maintaining an additional model object that enumerates the subset of tables and columns to expose, introducing more development and administrative overhead than directly hiding individual non-sales objects.