Qlik to Microsoft Fabric-Power BI Migration: 4-Week MVP

WinWire Technologies

Transition from Qlik to Microsoft Fabric-Power BI with WinWire

QlikView and Qlik Sense have been reliable tools for many organizations, providing robust analytics capabilities and an associative data model that allows users to explore relationships in their data effectively. Their ability to handle complex data models and guided analytics has made them popular choices for data-driven decision-making in the past for actionable insights through dashboards and reports. However, as businesses embrace agility, cloud-first strategies, and advanced analytics, QlikView and Qlik Sense face limitations. Their reliance on on-premises infrastructure, limited cloud-native capabilities and complex scripting - hinder scalability and accessibility, while their native AI and real-time analytics capabilities fall short of modern enterprise needs.

By offering a unified data and analytics platform, cutting-edge visualization tools, and Copilot-AI integration, Fabric-Power BI not only bridges the limitations of legacy tools but also empowers organizations to innovate and adapt to the rapidly changing business landscape.

With Power BI Premium Capacity retired for new customers, adopting Microsoft Fabric SKUs unlocks access to the full Fabric suite, including Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, and Real-Time Intelligence within a unified workspace.

For a successful migration, it is crucial to have a meticulously planned approach that considers all the Qlik landscape details of the current environment, user community, and potential risks.

Qlik to Power BI Migration MVP

WinWire's 4-week MVP offer is designed leveraging WinWire’s ‘Win with Power BI’ for Qlik migration accelerator that empowers enterprises to migrate all Qlik assets including QlikView, Qlik Sense, and Qlik Associative Models - seamlessly and rapidly to Power BI, embracing industry-leading visual analytics and Azure services. Leveraging WinWire's metadata-driven, analysis automation toolsets, the migration process achieves cost savings of 30%, accelerates migration by 40%, enabling faster time to insights, while ensuring the adoption of best practices for an enhanced visual analytics experience on Fabric-Power BI.

Our Methodology

  • Discovery & Scoping - Assess current Qlik estate for component wise inventory of reports, dashboards, Qlik Associative Models, user roles, permissions and access controls for personas.
  • MVP Build out- Migration of selected QlikView and Qlik Sense reports, dashboards and associative models to Power BI.
  • Migration Scale-out Plan - Define the roadmap with scale out plan for the migration of all Qlik assets to Power BI.
  • Benefits

  • Maximum precision in scale-out planning with cost-benefit analysis
  • Thorough assessment of Qlik environment complexity, gaps, and dependencies
  • Optimized Power BI visual designs and reconciliation process.
  • Enabled self-serving capabilities with Copilot within Fabric-Power BI experience
  • Performance enhancement and unified experience with Microsoft Fabric integration
  • Deliverables

  • Assessment and review of the Qlik landscape.
  • Unified data infrastructure with Fabric, Lakehouse in OneLake, and data pipelines.
  • Power BI dashboards, semantic models with self-service analytics powered by Copilot.
  • Training plan Copilot powered data processing, and dashboard creation and usage.
  • TCO-ROI analysis for migrating Qlik workloads to Fabric
  • Roadmap for scale-out execution in Fabric-Power BI.
  • Unlock Power BI in Microsoft Fabric, transitioning from Qlik – explore our offer today!

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