If organizations could simply press a button and turn their sprawling business intelligence into actionable, accessible insights, it’s safe to say that every data-driven company doing business today would have already pressed that button. With Microsoft’s recent announcement that Power BI prices will raise by roughly 50% per user next year, there are also more incentives for investing in modern BI environments like Sigma than ever before.
Yet many organizations are still reluctant to take this inevitable step towards BI modernization for the simple reason that transitioning environments can be disruptive, expensive, and time-consuming. It’s critical to remain agile in the present market, and it feels as though one misstep with a BI environment transition could bring disaster.
Needless to say, complex BI transitions will probably never be as simple as the press of a button, but Hakkoda’s copilot-assisted Sigma BI migrations aim to be the next best thing—slashing lengthy migration timelines, automating cumbersome manual processes, and eliminating risk associated with human error.
In this article, we’ll discuss how you can rationalize and migrate your BI workloads up to 8 times faster with help from Hakkoda’s BI Migration Copilot, unlocking powerful analytics that will completely transform your data operations without the growing pains of a traditional migration.
A Rationalization and Migration Accelerator that Modernizes Your BI Environment Quickly
Centralization can be a bit of a buzzword in data-driven industries, and it’s not always clear what specific, concrete benefits your organization would stand to gain with a centralized BI environment. That’s why we developed the Sigma BI Analyst by Hakkoda—a free tool that analyzes your current BI environment to identify inefficiencies and areas for growth in under an hour.
While we developed this tool to empower your organization to better understand its BI systems, we also wanted to provide a path forward for those companies who want to modernize but are understandably wary of the challenges that come with the transition process. That’s where the Sigma BI Copilot—a rationalization and migration accelerator developed by Hakkoda that uses your Sigma BI Analyst report to optimize your BI environment quickly and efficiently—comes in.
A traditional BI migration takes 8 to 16 months, and that time comes with a hefty price tag when your organization enlists the help of an external data partner to facilitate the migration process. With the Sigma BI Copilot, that same process takes only 2 to 3 months and significantly less manpower, thanks to our AI-driven automation that oversees the rationalization and migration of business logic and reporting.
This translates to minimal downtime and maximized ROI for your organization, powering self-service and making ad hoc analytics faster. The ease of use and administration, as well as the quality of support that comes with a centralized BI environment through Sigma, are unmatched, but the Sigma BI Copilot will also facilitate game-changing features like workbook optimization, advanced metrics, and custom SQL queries.
In short, the path to a centralized BI environment is smoother than ever, thanks to the power of AI and automation, and here at Hakkoda, we strive to help you harness that power in your organization’s modernization journey.
Modernizing Your BI Environments is a Journey— Hakkōda is Here to Help
While the path toward a modern, cloud-native BI environment isn’t without its blockers and bottlenecks, the Sigma BI Analyst by Hakkoda is a great place to get started. This free application, now in private preview on the Snowflake Marketplace, efficiently identifies areas of growth for your company’s BI environment and helps you chart a pragmatic course for getting there.
Following that initial assessment, you will be equipped with the information you need to decide whether you’re ready to begin the process of rationalizing your BI workloads and leveling up your BI analytics by moving to a modern, user-first environment like Sigma.
If you do decide to make that push, Hakkoda’s BI Copilot is a powerful accelerator that can save you precious time and resources, facilitating the rationalization and migration processes to modernize your BI environment in an average of just three months.
While the migration process will never be quite as simple as pressing a button, it’s easier than ever before to take advantage of Sigma’s analytical capabilities in a fraction of the time.
At Hakkoda, we’re passionate about harnessing modern data tools and strategies to fuel innovation for data-driven organizations. We’re also passionate about helping our customers get better returns on their data technology investments with a host of accelerators and solutions that alleviate the biggest pain points of modernization.
If you’re ready to modernize your organization’s BI environment, let’s talk today about how Hakkoda can help you start your modernization journey.
