Migrate Legacy BI to Microsoft Fabric-Power BI

Legacy BI tools have long supported businesses, but as data needs grow, they often lack the agility, scalability, and integration required today. Their fragmentation and complexity can hinder agility and limit data's full potential for insights. Migrating to a modern, unified platform like Power BI offers a more streamlined and efficient approach, enabling better collaboration, enhanced visualization capabilities, and a single source of truth across the organization. Businesses can also benefit from improved scalability, cost-efficiency, and self-service analytics with Copilot, driving rapid insights and decision-making. The retirement of Power BI Premium capacity presents a crucial opportunity to transition from legacy BI tools to Microsoft Fabric, a comprehensive platform that unifies data management and analytics under one roof enabling organizations to consolidate their workloads and move to a future-proof solution that supports advanced analytics, real-time data, and AI-powered insights.

Solution

WinWire's 4-week MVP offer is designed for customers looking for an advanced unified BI solution. It provides a practical roadmap to help you transition from legacy BI tools to Power BI within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. This streamlined approach ensures that your organization can fully leverage the capabilities of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, leading to improved performance, cost savings, and better business outcomes. This MVP supports major BI tools like Tableau, SAP Business Objects, Qlik, Crystal Reports, Cognos Analytics, SSRS, and many others, helping customers replace them with the unified experience of Fabric-Power BI.

Advantage

WinWire’s ‘Win with Power BI’ accelerator helps enterprises rapidly migrate from existing BI/reporting tools to Power BI on Microsoft Fabric, leveraging automation and frameworks. This accelerates BI tool migration by 40%, enabling faster time to insights.

Objective

• Consolidate legacy BI tools into a unified platform.
• Integrate Gen AI to enhance data integration, exploration, and analysis.
• Reduce costs and improve efficiency, scalability, and performance.

Scope

• Enable Fabric-Power BI service including Copilot and create workspace in Azure tenant
• Identify one/two source data sets for rapid ingestion into Fabric-Power BI
• Identify four reports-dashboards, relevant to a business function
• Explore opportunities for consolidation and rationalization
• Build Data Factory jobs for sourcing, processing, and loading data into OneLake
• Create one/two Power BI semantic model(s) and four reports-dashboards with Direct Lake
• Migrate historical data into OneLake for reports-dashboards
• Develop a roadmap for legacy BI to Fabric-Power BI

Deliverables

• Unified data infrastructure with Fabric, OneLake, and data pipelines on Fabric
• Power BI dashboards with self-service analytics powered by Copilot within Fabric
• TCO-ROI analysis for migrating workloads to Fabric
• Explore opportunities for consolidation and rationalization
• Roadmap for scale-out execution in Fabric-Power BI

Unleash the full capabilities of Power BI within Microsoft Fabric experiences – explore our offer today!