A North American building materials distributor relied on Tableau for market and operational insights across suppliers, carriers, and retailers. Rising licensing costs made it unsustainable, prompting a move to Power BI for cost savings, seamless Microsoft integration, and better decision-making.
Client: Wholesale Distributor
Services: BIPort Migration
Year: 2025
Project Objectives
- Migrating 630+ reports in a tight deadline of 8 months
- Each report consists of multiple dashboards and visuals accounting to a total of 1850+ dashboards and 5000+ visuals
- Automate the manual migration process to eliminate errors and inefficiencies
Technology Stack
Solution & Implementation
- Sparity engaged with the client in a managed services model undertaking the end-to-end Tableau to Power BI migration
- Identified roadblocks and deployed AI-powered BIPort for a structured migration
- Customized BIPort and assigned BI developers, Analysts for manual migration phases
- BIPort mapped dependencies, developed detailed report analysis, converted logic, and ensured seamless migration
- Maintained visual parity and implemented a cloud-based solution per client needs.
- Cloud-based implementation tailored to the client’s infrastructure standards
Benefits
- 50% of the migration was automated, accelerating the process significantly
- Only 1,500+ visuals required manual migration out of 5,000+ total visuals
- Client realized ROI within 6 months, reallocating Tableau licensing costs to operations
