ALM Toolkit
freeFree, open-source tool to manage Microsoft Power BI datasets, with database compare, code merging, deployment, and source-control integration.
- Category
- semantic-modeling
- Type
- desktop-app
- Language
- C#
- Maintainer
- microsoft
- Author
- Christian Wade
- Added
- Jun 1, 2026
What it does
ALM Toolkit is a free, open-source tool to manage Microsoft Power BI datasets. It handles database compare, code merging, easy deployment, source-control integration, reusing definitions, and moving from self-service to corporate BI. In practice, it compares two models (or a model and a file) and selectively merges and deploys the metadata differences across workspaces and environments. It is based on the source code of BISM Normalizer, which provides similar features for Analysis Services Tabular models.
Why use it
Use it to deploy only the changes between two models. For example, you can promote measure and structure updates from development to production without overwriting data or unrelated objects.
Getting started
Download the latest release from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/microsoft/Analysis-Services/tree/master/AlmToolkit. It integrates with Power BI Desktop as an external tool.