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The vocabulary of assessing, rationalizing, migrating and improving an enterprise BI estate, in one or two sentences each.
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BI modernization is the ongoing work of improving how an organization builds, delivers, and maintains business intelligence: the reports people use, the models behind them, and the practices that keep them trustworthy.
The BI modernization journeyBusiness intelligence migration moves reports, models, and calculations from a source platform into a target BI environment.
BI migration workflowsBI rationalization is the process of deciding which reports and models to retain, consolidate, archive, rebuild, or migrate.
BI rationalizationThe full set of business intelligence assets an organization runs: reports, dashboards, semantic models, calculations, data sources and the platforms that host them.
Analyze the estateA supported conversion from one named source platform to one named target platform, such as Tableau to Power BI. EntityBI supports 9 directions and does not convert arbitrary source and target combinations.
Supported migration directionsThe layer between data and reports that defines tables, relationships, measures and business logic, so every report calculates a metric the same way.
Power BI semantic modelsMerging reports that answer the same business question into one maintained report. Rationalization finds candidates by grouping reports with overlapping content into similarity clusters.
Compare similar reportsData Analysis Expressions, the formula language for measures, calculated columns and calculated tables in Power BI and Analysis Services models.
EntityBI for Power BIThe formula language behind Power Query, used to connect to, shape and transform data before it is loaded into a Power BI model.
EntityBI for Power BIPower BI file formats. A Power BI Project (PBIP) saves a report and model as folders of text files suited to source control; a Power BI Template (PBIT) packages the report and model definition without data.
Power BI migration outputLooker's modeling language for defining dimensions, measures, explores and joins in version-controlled projects.
EntityBI for LookerEntityBI's platform-native workspace for building and improving reporting in Power BI, Tableau, Looker and Omni without a migration. Every proposed change is reviewed by your team before release.
Reporting StudioRunning EntityBI inside the customer's own Azure, AWS or GCP environment, as an alternative to dedicated hosted SaaS. Connectivity, identity and operational responsibilities are scoped during deployment planning.
Deployment optionsA clear next step
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