MicroStrategy to Power BI Migration: Transforming Analytics for a Global Food Company

Retail & CPG Power Migrate Analytics Migration

Infocepts helped a global food company modernize analytics with a seamless migration from MicroStrategy to Power BI, delivering 40% cost savings, 60% faster insights, and a future-ready platform

The Challenge

To stay competitive and meet evolving demands, our client, a leading global food company, needed to modernize its analytics infrastructure. After decades on MicroStrategy, their BI system had become more of a barrier than a facilitator for data-driven decision-making. Key challenges included:

Outdated Reporting System: With approximately 12,000 reports accumulated, many redundant, the system was cluttered, complicating access to insights and highlighting the need for report rationalization.
Data Complexity and Clutter: Increasing data complexity led to management challenges, creating inconsistencies and inefficiencies that limited the company’s ability to effectively leverage insights.
Heavy IT Dependency: The reliance on IT for generating and maintaining reports delayed insights and limited the organization’s agility in responding to market changes.

Power BI was chosen to build a modern, agile, and scalable BI environment, and empower business users with self-service.

The Outcome

Leveraging Infocepts’ Flash Power Migrate toolkit, our client successfully completed the migration within budget and timeline, achieving significant benefits:

40% Cost Reduction: Optimized infrastructure and reporting lowered the total cost of ownership.
Enhanced Agility: Built a scalable analytics platform capable of adapting to evolving business needs.
60% Faster Insights: Shortened time-to-value, enabling quicker data-driven decision-making.
4X Higher User Adoption: Enabled independent data access and analysis through self-service and real-time capabilities that quadrupled user adoption.
Future-Ready Platform: Established a flexible foundation to support ongoing analytics needs and future innovation.

The Solution

Infocepts accelerated the migration from MicroStrategy to Power BI using its Flash Power Migrate Toolkit in a phased, structured approach for a smooth, efficient, and low-risk transition.

Analysis & Planning

Automated Analysis: Power Migrate’s Analyzer auto-analyzed report metadata, providing insights on report count, complexity, and usage.
Scope Refinement: Rationalized reports by removing 35% of low-value reports and identifying 25% for optimization.
Strategic Planning: Developed an agile implementation plan, introduced self-service reporting models, and set up a robust governance framework.

Conversion

Smart Conversion: The Conversion engine translated data models and visuals into Power BI, swiftly handling simple and medium-complexity reports while flagging complex ones for refactoring to meet new business requirements.
Design Enhancements: Automated processes reduced conversion effort by 60-70%, allowing the team to focus on migrating complex reports & UI/UX enhancements of migrated reports.

Validation & Deployment

Automated Validation: Power Migrate’s Validator ensured data accuracy by comparing pre- and post-migration reports, reducing manual testing by 70%.
Structured Deployment: Our Change Management framework facilitated seamless deployment, addressing both migration and new business needs.

Adoption & Maintainenance

User Training: Early training on Power BI and self-service reporting fostered rapid adoption, reducing reliance on IT.
Sustainable Governance: Operationalized the governance framework to enforce best practices, manage release cycles, and support long-term success.

The Outcome

Leveraging Infocepts’ Flash Power Migrate toolkit, our client successfully completed the migration within budget and timeline, achieving significant benefits:

40% Cost Reduction: Optimized infrastructure and reporting lowered the total cost of ownership.
Enhanced Agility: Built a scalable analytics platform capable of adapting to evolving business needs.
60% Faster Insights: Shortened time-to-value, enabling quicker data-driven decision-making.
4X Higher User Adoption: Enabled independent data access and analysis through self-service and real-time capabilities that quadrupled user adoption.
Future-Ready Platform: Established a flexible foundation to support ongoing analytics needs and future innovation.

Get in touch with our experts to explore how we can support your analytics modernization journey.

About the Client

The client is a global food company producing a wide range of high-quality products, including soups, meals, beverages, snacks, and packaged foods.

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