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From scattered legacy BI to one backbone that scales (Fabric or Databricks).

Qlik, SAP BO, a sprawl of Power BI tenants, a BI Datacenter still running since 2018. We move you onto one Microsoft Fabric or Databricks foundation your engineers can build on and your business actually trusts, without rebuilding everything from scratch.

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Symptoms

The pain you are likely feeling.

  • Three years of business logic ended up in dashboards no one can maintain, and the one analyst who knew where the truth lived just left.
  • Reports take 24 hours to refresh, the business wants near-real-time, and the underlying platform was never designed for it.
  • Every new request means adding to the spaghetti, because rewriting the legacy stack feels like a multi-year programme nobody wants to sign off on.
  • Your IT team is split between keeping the lights on for the old platform and trying to learn Fabric on the side.
  • The vendor that sold you Qlik or SAP BO is no longer the partner you need for the next decade.
Approach

How we approach it.

  • Audit first, plan second.We map your current reports, data sources and business logic before touching anything.
  • Pick one domain.Sales, finance, ops, whichever has the most pain and the cleanest ROI. We modernise that end-to-end, including users.
  • Foundation done right.Medallion architecture on a modern platform, semantic model in Power BI Direct Lake, governance baked in from day one. Not Synapse with extra steps.
  • Migrate the logic, not the screens.Where dashboards encoded business rules, we lift those rules into governed semantic models. The legacy reports get a graceful retirement, not a forklift.
  • Adopt or it won’t stick.Side-by-side parallel run, hands-on training for your power users, a citizen developer programme if it fits. We stay through go-live and beyond.
Proof

Where this signature landed.

Confidential distributorGlobal Microsoft Fabric backbone running on OneLake medallion. Sales, ops and finance reporting unified across 14 countries.
Flanders MakePower BI estate migrated to Fabric over 30% under budget. Semantic models replaced 100+ hand-maintained reports.
Atlas CopcoLegacy reporting modernised onto a governed, scalable data backbone.
Deliverables

What we typically ship in 90 days.

  • One business domain (sales OR finance OR ops) end-to-end on Fabric: ingestion, medallion lakehouse, semantic model, Power BI reporting.
  • Purview catalog with classifications, lineage and sensitivity labels for the migrated data.
  • Capacity right-sized for the first three months. We scale up only when monitoring shows we need it.
  • 10-15 power users trained, documentation written by us with your team, runbook for production support.
  • A clear roadmap for domain #2, with effort estimates your CFO can budget against.

Got a legacy BI estate you cannot keep extending?

Three hours, your data, our senior architects. We’ll show you what a Fabric foundation looks like for your specific stack, and tell you honestly whether modernising now is the right call.

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