Power BI Premium Capacity Upgrade to Microsoft Fabric: 8 Week Assessment and MVP

As organizations continue their journey toward data-driven decision-making, it's critical to stay aligned with the evolving ecosystem of Microsoft solutions. With the retirement of Power BI Premium capacity licensing, businesses must transition to Microsoft Fabric to maintain and enhance their data and analytics capabilities.

Effective January 1, 2025, Microsoft retires Power BI Premium Capacity licensing for most customers, with extended support available only for Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers until January 1, 2028. This shift underscores Microsoft’s commitment to delivering a unified and modern analytics platform through Microsoft Fabric, integrating powerful features for data engineering, data warehouse, data science, real-time analytics, business intelligence with Power BI.

At WinWire, we deliver a powerful solution with two customized tracks that ensure a seamless transition from Power BI Premium Capacity to Microsoft Fabric. Our comprehensive plan effectively optimizes your current and future workloads on Fabric's intelligent data platform, empowering your organization to drive rapid business insights and decisive action.

• Assessment for Establishing an Intelligent Data Foundation in Fabric – 4 Weeks
• MVP for Microsoft Fabric Value Demonstration – 4 Weeks

These two solution tracks conducted independently in any order or in parallel - will simplify the migration process while enabling the development of impactful use cases that will accelerate insights with the SaaS model of Fabric. Based on your requirements, you can choose to engage with us in one or both tracks. Powered by Copilot, Fabric experiences are to help your organization unlock the full potential of Microsoft Fabric's next-generation analytics capabilities.

1. Assessment for Establishing an Intelligent Data Foundation in Fabric

Objective

Assess current data platform and workloads to create a roadmap for Microsoft Fabric conversion, focusing on ROI, cost savings, and AI-driven capabilities

Scope

• Review existing data estate and analytics workloads
• Identify opportunities to optimize workloads in Fabric
• Evaluate AI/ML capabilities and agent-based automation
• Assess self-service with Copilot and Azure OpenAI
• Explore real-time intelligence for predictive actions
• Analyze cost-benefit for Azure Synapse dedicated pool to Fabric
• Assess governance, quality, security, and compliance
• Analyze cost drivers and business benefits for the data platform in Fabric

Deliverables

• Roadmap for a strong data foundation with governance, compliance, security, and quality
• Migration roadmap for high-impact workloads and Power BI assets
• Roadmap for advanced real-time analytics, agent-based AI/ML use-cases, and governance
• Training plan for self-serving with Copilot, AI tools, and collaboration capabilities
• TCO-ROI analysis for the intelligent data platform in Microsoft Fabric

2: MVP for Microsoft Fabric Value Demonstration

Objective

Leverage Microsoft Fabric to drive value by consolidating diverse data sources into unified Data Lakehouse - “OneLake”, empowering your organization with rapid, scalable analytics and insights across diverse data types.

Scope

• Enable Fabric service including Copilot and create workspace in Azure tenant
• Identify two source data sets for rapid ingestion into Fabric
• Identify two visuals-dashboards, relevant to a business function
• Design Medallion Lakehouse Architecture on Fabric
• Build Data Factory jobs for sourcing, processing, and loading data into OneLake
• Create one Power BI semantic model and two dashboards/reports with Direct Lake
• Migrate historical data into OneLake for dashboards
• Develop a roadmap for expanding Fabric usage and new use cases

Deliverables

• Unified data infrastructure with Fabric, OneLake, and data pipelines on Fabric
• Power BI dashboards with self-service analytics powered by Copilot within Fabric
• Training plan Copilot powered data processing, and dashboard creation and usage
• TCO-ROI analysis for migrating the workloads to Fabric
• Roadmap for scale-out execution for unified experiences in Fabric

Explore our offer today and get ready to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Fabric!