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Accelerated Power BI Migration and Analytics Modernization for a Global Food Company

Retail & CPG Power Migrate Analytics Migration

Infocepts helped a global food company modernize analytics with a seamless migration 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 which 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  • Outdated Reporting System: With approximately 12,000 reports accumulated, many redundant, the system was cluttered, complicating access to insights and highlighting the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 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.
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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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