Migrating Power BI Premium to Microsoft Fabric — what to expect.
Premium per-capacity (P-SKU) is being retired. A pragmatic walk-through of the migration path, licensing trade-offs, and what breaks along the way.
13 min · By T. Harlan→
Analysis and perspectives on enterprise analytics, data architecture, and the practical operation of Power BI at scale — written by the engineers, solution architects and customer teams behind Metrica.
Premium per-capacity (P-SKU) is being retired. A pragmatic walk-through of the migration path, licensing trade-offs, and what breaks along the way.
Every semantic model begins with a storage-mode decision. A comparison of query speed, DAX flexibility, refresh schedules and cost at enterprise scale.
Every S/4HANA implementation reaches the same fork. A side-by-side comparison of the three native reporting layers and where each one fits.
Every number on a dashboard started somewhere else. A plain-spoken explanation of the pipeline patterns that move operational data into analytics.
Salesforce reports work well until they don't. A list of the hard limits most teams hit first, and the patterns used to work around them.
Choosing the wrong BI platform at enterprise scale is expensive. A criterion-by-criterion comparison of the three leaders, from the perspective of operators.
SAP environments generate enormous operational volumes, but turning that into reports is rarely straightforward. A survey of the options and their trade-offs.
Power BI hasn't gone away, but the platform it runs on has changed substantially. A practitioner's introduction to the Fabric surface.
A pattern for building cross-system reports without heavy-handed ETL. How to align grain, preserve source security, and keep the model maintainable.
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