Power BI Migration Services

This is the core of the engagement. We redevelop each report and dashboard in Power BI, reproducing the business logic, not just the visual layout. Every migrated report goes through a structured validation process: source data is compared to the Power BI output row by row for a defined validation period. Reports are signed off by a business stakeholder before the source system equivalent is retired. We keep both systems live in parallel during this period, so there is no risk to your reporting operations.

A migration is an opportunity to fix the data model, not just move it. Most legacy BI environments have accumulated years of technical debt — denormalised tables, confusing naming conventions, redundant datasets, and business definitions that vary from report to report. We redesign the semantic model using star-schema best practices, establish a single data dictionary, and build the kind of governed, reusable model that means new Power BI reports take days to build instead of weeks.

If your source BI platform has its own ETL layer: Cognos Data Manager, Informatica feeds into SSRS, custom SQL Agent jobs, those pipelines need to move too. We migrate data pipelines to Power Query, Dataflow Gen2, Azure Data Factory, or Microsoft Fabric Pipelines, depending on the complexity and volume of your data integration requirements. We do not leave you dependent on the legacy ETL layer after the migration is complete.

A new Power BI environment is only as good as its governance framework. We configure workspace structure, row-level security, sensitivity labels, deployment pipelines (dev/test/prod), and usage monitoring as part of every migration engagement. We also document the governance model so your internal team can maintain and extend it without coming back to us for every change.

For organizations ready to move beyond Power BI datasets to a full unified analytics platform, we migrate to Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse architecture on OneLake, Dataflow Gen2 for data preparation, and Direct Lake mode for high-performance reporting at scale. Microsoft Fabric migration requires a more extensive architecture design phase, but the result is a platform that handles both BI and data engineering workloads in a single governance framework.

The most technically perfect migration fails if users do not adopt the new system. We include structured adoption work in every engagement: end-user training sessions, a train-the-trainer program for internal champions, a migration communications plan, and a 30-day adoption dashboard that tracks which reports and datasets are being used. We do not hand over the keys and walk away.

Post-migration, most organizations want a support arrangement that covers bug fixes, new report development, performance optimization, and governance evolution as the Power BI environment grows. Beyond Intranet's managed service retainers provide a defined number of monthly development hours, proactive performance monitoring, quarterly architecture reviews, and a named Power BI architect who knows your environment.