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

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