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BI Decommissioning and Cutover

The migration is not done until the old platform is off: structured parallel runs, validation sign-off, user cutover, archive strategy, license termination, and infrastructure retirement, evidenced for audit.

What You Get

Signed offValidation evidence per report
Cut overUsers moved, old paths closed
$ BankedLicenses actually terminated
EvidencedAn audit trail of the retirement
What's Included

BI Decommissioning and Cutover: the full scope

Cutover planning
Sequence, comms, and rollback criteria per user group.
Parallel run management
Old and new reconciled on live data for a defined window.
Validation sign-off
Documented owner acceptance per report before retirement.
Archive strategy
Historical outputs and definitions preserved to policy.
Access and license termination
Old paths closed, renewals cancelled, savings banked.
Infrastructure retirement
Servers, services, and integrations shut down with evidence.
How We Work

Structured delivery, every engagement

The same disciplined framework behind our enterprise migrations: documented, validated, and led by senior expertise from start to finish.

1

Assess

Inventory every report, data source, and dependency. Usage analysis identifies what actually matters.

2

Rationalize

Retire duplicates and unused reports. Typically 30 to 50 percent never need migrating.

3

Modernize

Rebuild on Power BI and Fabric with governed semantic models and validated outputs.

4

Govern

Workspaces, row-level security, certified datasets, and documented standards.

5

Enable

Training and handover so your team owns the platform, not a vendor.

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Common Questions

BI Decommissioning and Cutover FAQ

Why does decommissioning deserve its own service?

Because it is where migrations quietly fail: the new platform lives, the old one lingers 'temporarily,' and the business pays for both indefinitely. A managed cutover with a hard retirement date is how savings become real.

How long should a parallel run be?

Long enough to cover the reporting cycles that matter (typically one or two month-ends, a quarter-end for finance) and no longer. Open-ended parallel runs are how temporary becomes permanent.

What if users refuse to leave the old reports?

Usage monitoring finds the holdouts, their blockers get fixed in the new platform, and old paths close on a communicated date. Access removal, kindly executed, is the only cure for habit.

What do auditors get?

A retirement package: per-report validation evidence, owner sign-offs, archive locations, termination confirmations, and the decommission timeline, the paper trail that makes the retirement defensible.

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