Success Stories

Migration Success Story #1

Client Overview

  • Industry: Retail Omnichannel
  • Company Size: 500M€ revenue, 4 thousand employees
  • Previous BI Tool: MicroStrategy
  • New BI Tool: Power BI

Challenges Faced

  • Lack of new talents to develop the BI platform.
  • Solution built 15 years ago, not fitting the current business needs.
  • Lack of user adoption and self-service analytics.
  • Difficulty integrating with modern cloud infrastructure.

Migration Process

Step 1: Planning and Assessment

  • Conducted workshops with stakeholders.
  • Analysed the data environment and usage statistics.
  • Identified key reports for migration.
  • Defined a clear migration roadmap.

Step 2: Infrastructure Preparation

  • Decision to migrate data layer to Azure Databrics.
  • Listed all the needed sources tables.
  • Implemented ETL framework.
  • Implemented Power BI Deployment Framework

Step 3: Data Migration and Report Conversion

  • Indicateed 1 stream to start the migration process
    • Proposed the initial star schema model in GOLD layer
    • Confirmed the Business Logic with the Business Owners of the Data/Reports
    • Divided the reports to be migrated into the batches
  • Built new Power BI reports in order, using the criteria of the business value (high) and technical complexity (low)
  • Introduced the new way of working: close collaboration between BI Product Owner, Business Owner and the team of Power BI Developers and Data Engineers
  • Iterated the process through other streams

Step 4: User Adoption and Training

  • Conducted Power BI training workshops.
  • Implemented governance tools for secure access.
  • Provided ongoing support and user feedback sessions.
  • Implemented Power BI Monitoring Accelerator

Results and Impact

  • Higher users’ engagement: Company received modern BI Tool, easy to use and to get the information about it.
  • Better access to the Talent Pool: Center of Excellence was created
  • Faster and Agile development process: Switching from Waterfall to more Agile approach with Reports development.
  • Improved Decision-Making: Enabled self-service analytics and real-time reporting.

Lessons Learned & Best Practices

  • Ensure stakeholder alignment early in the process.
  • Start with a pilot migration before full-scale deployment.
  • Leverage Power BI’s governance features to maintain data integrity.
  • Provide continuous training and adoption tracking.