Get SSAS cube last process time

Question

In Excel I make an Analysis Services connection to a data cube. I would like to be able to show a user how current the data is by showing them when the last cube processing

Answer 1

I actually found a way to do it in Excel without having to create any views or new measures. In Excel 2013, PowerPivot allows you to create your own custom MDX queries against a cube. You can open PowerPivot, make the connection to your cube, paste in the MDX query I used in SSMS to return the cube process time,

SELECT LAST_DATA_UPDATE FROM $system.mdschema_cubes

and then export this to a pivot table. I did not need to modify anything outside of Excel. Here is a document with step by step procedures.