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Pentaho to Power BI Migration

Move Pentaho reporting and data integration to the Microsoft stack. Report Designer and CTools content becomes Power BI, and PDI (Kettle) pipelines rebuild in Fabric Data Factory.

Pentaho's community momentum has faded under Hitachi ownership, and enterprise licensing no longer matches the value. Estates built on Pentaho are consolidating to Power BI and Fabric.

Migration Outcomes

PDIKettle jobs rebuilt in Data Factory
2 in 1Reporting and ETL modernized together
100%Output validation against Pentaho
0Pentaho servers left to maintain
Why Organizations Leave Pentaho

The cost of staying on Pentaho

Fading ecosystem
Community edition stagnant, plugins aging, and enterprise support an increasingly hard sell.
Kettle key-person risk
PDI transformations built years ago, maintained by whoever remains.
Dated dashboards
CTools and Analyzer experiences that users compare unfavorably to modern BI.
Java stack upkeep
Pentaho servers, repositories, and JVM tuning as permanent overhead.
Mondrian complexity
OLAP schemas requiring specialist knowledge for every change.
Split investment
Maintaining a niche stack while the organization standardizes on Microsoft.
Migration Mapping

Everything in Pentaho has a modern equivalent

Every component of your Pentaho estate maps to Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Nothing is left behind, and everything is validated against the original.

Pentaho
Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
Report Designer (PRPT) reports
Power BI paginated reports
CTools and Analyzer dashboards
Interactive Power BI reports
Mondrian OLAP schemas
Semantic models with hierarchies
PDI (Kettle) transformations
Fabric Data Factory and dataflows
Pentaho scheduling
Pipeline schedules and subscriptions
Repository security
Workspaces and row-level security
How We Migrate

A proven 5-stage framework

The same structured methodology behind 1,200+ migrated reports. Validated side by side, documented, and delivered with zero disruption.

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.

Not sure where to start?

The free migration assessment inventories your Pentaho estate, sizes the effort, and gives you a phased roadmap with costs. No commitment required.

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Common Questions

Pentaho migration FAQ

What happens to our PDI pipelines?

Kettle transformations and jobs are inventoried and rebuilt in Fabric Data Factory pipelines and dataflows, with logic documented during conversion and outputs reconciled against PDI runs.

How do Mondrian cubes migrate?

Mondrian schema dimensions, hierarchies, and measures redesign as Power BI semantic models, validated against Analyzer results on identical data.

Can report layouts be preserved?

Yes. PRPT print layouts rebuild in Power BI Report Builder with matching fidelity, and interactive CTools dashboards rebuild as modern Power BI reports.

Do reporting and ETL have to migrate together?

No, but it is usually efficient: sequencing PDI-to-Fabric alongside report migration avoids rebuilding integrations twice. The assessment recommends the sequence.

How long does a Pentaho migration take?

Combined reporting and PDI estates typically migrate in 4 to 8 months depending on pipeline complexity, scoped during the free assessment.

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