Cognos to Power BI Migration: 4-Week Assessment & Pilot

Over the years, enterprises that have deployed Cognos have faced the challenges of rising license costs, scaling up infrastructure for performance, and maintaining Framework Manager Packages and Cubes that have grown with non-uniform semantic models. Migrating from Cognos Analytics landscape to a Power BI platform tackles the primary problems of performance, environmental management, and overall TCO. Power BI combines end-to-end analytic capabilities with tighter integration with Azure services like Microsoft Purview for Governance, Azure ML, and Cognitive Services.

Power BI offers a unified experience within Microsoft Fabric with enhanced performance features. For a successful migration, it is crucial to have a meticulously planned approach that considers all the Cognos landscape details of the current environment, user community, and potential risks.

Cognos to Power BI Migration Services

Win with Power BI for Cognos migration accelerator empowers enterprises to migrate from Cognos seamlessly and rapidly to Power BI, embracing industry-leading visual analytics and Azure services.

Leveraging WinWire's metadata-driven analysis automation toolsets, the migration process achieves cost savings of 30% while also reducing licensing costs by up to 40% and ensuring the adoption of best practices for an enhanced visual analytics experience on Power BI.

Our Methodology

• Discovery & Scoping - Assess current Cognos estate – Server, personas, component wise inventory.
• Pilot Solution - Migrate - Metadata driven analysis of Cognos environment and visualization design and build out in Power BI
• Migration Scale-out Plan - Define the roadmap with scale out plan for the migration of all reports to Power BI and the leverage of Azure services Microsoft Purview, Azure ML and Cognitive services.

Business Value

• Maximum precision in project planning, with a thorough assessment of the Cognos environment's complexity, gaps, and dependencies
• Optimized Power BI visual designs and reconciliation process
• Pre-built object mapping between Cognos to Power BI to accelerate the migration process.
• Enable newer capabilities like Data marts, NLP Q&A, Purview, Azure ML
• Performance enhancement and unified experience with Microsoft Fabric integration

Key Deliverables

• Assessment and review of the Cognos Analytics landscape
• Finalized migration plan and approach.
• A working application for Copilot using plugin.
• Business value summary with TCO and ROI for migrating to Power BI
• Value of integrating Microsoft Purview, Azure Machine Learning and Cognitive services

Leverage our rapid 4-week Assessment & Pilot and experience the value of migrating from Cognos to Power BI.