Power BI to Microsoft Fabric Workspace Migration - 3 Weeks PoC

WinWire Technologies

A Guided Workspace Transition Service from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric

With the retirement of Power BI Premium Capacity licenses, organizations must transition their workspaces to Microsoft Fabric, which offers a more unified and AI-powered data analytics platform. Microsoft Fabric extends beyond traditional Power BI capabilities by integrating lakehouse architecture, data engineering, real-time analytics, and AI-driven insights within a single environment. Before the expiration of enterprise agreement or the retirement of Power BI Premium Capacity licensing, it’s crucial to move Power BI workspace and BI-visualization assets along with their semantic models to Microsoft Fabric to ensure business continuity without disruptions. WinWire’s Power BI to Microsoft Fabric Workspace Migration offer is helping enterprises that ensure continued access to Power BI’s advanced analytics, enhanced governance, and cost-effective scalability. WinWire assesses their existing Power BI workspaces, evaluate workload requirements, and plans for a seamless transition to equivalent Fabric capacities to maintain uninterrupted reporting, data processing, and business intelligence operations.

Migration Challenges and Solutions

  • Complexity of Migration: Transitioning to numerous workspaces can be daunting. Microsoft provides both manual and automated options to aid this process.
  • Bulk Reassignment: Use the Admin portal to move multiple workspaces simultaneously, by user, specific workspace, or organization wide.
  • Automated Migration Tool: Ideal for large-scale transitions, this tool utilizes Fabric REST APIs to automate the process. It can create necessary Fabric capacities and handle extensive workspace migrations.
  • Key Considerations

  • Impact on Active Jobs: Active jobs will be cancelled during migration; scheduled tasks will resume post-migration.
  • Post-Migration Cleanup: Deleting old Power BI capacities is crucial to avoid extra costs.
  • Geographical and Semantic Model Restrictions: Be aware of region-specific limitations when migrating workspaces with Fabric artifacts or large semantic models.
  • Manual Adjustments Post-Migration

    As After automation, manual tweaks are necessary for settings like disaster recovery and tenant configurations in the Fabric Admin portal.

    Key Deliverables

  • Assessment: Evaluate current Power BI landscape to understand the scope of migration.
  • Planning: Develop a detailed migration plan including stakeholder alignment; impact and gap analysis; timelines and risk assessment.
  • Services Setup: Configure Microsoft Fabric services (if required); verify data sources and storage modes; plan appropriate Fabric SKU capacity.
  • Migration: Execute migration of Power BI Premium workspaces using automated tools and manual adjustments (as needed).
  • Validation: Test thoroughly the migrated workspaces to ensure they meet performance, governance & reliability standards.
  • Retiring Premium: Deallocate Power BI Premium capacity after the successful migration.
  • User Enablement: Facilitate knowledge transfer, conduct role-based user training, enable self-service with Copilot.
  • How WinWire Can Help?

    WinWire, as a trusted Microsoft partner, specializes in guiding organizations through complex migrations. Partner with WinWire to streamline your migration journey & maximize the value of Microsoft Fabric Capacity.

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