Modernizing BI for an international couture house

Key results

Sales, client and operational reporting for a couture house, split across SQL Server, Cognos and Qlik Sense, for more than 2,000 users worldwide.

Three reporting tools to bring together: SQL Server, Cognos and Qlik Sense.
More than 2,000 users worldwide, with different needs in finance, product and marketing.
Personal client data, subject to the GDPR.
Reports that were too slow to load.
BI projects with no shared standards.

What we did

Own the Power BI product
Product ownership of Power BI for the global business: sales, client and operational reporting.
Start from the decisions to make
KPI and requirements workshops with finance, product and marketing.
Migrate end to end
From SQL Server, Cognos and Qlik Sense to Power BI and Google Cloud: pipelines, testing, then user rollout.
Protect personal data
GDPR governance of client data and access controls.
Standardize and deliver in Agile
Power BI standards and templates (models, naming, UX/UI) adopted across every BI project; Agile delivery with a developer team.

Three legacy tools, one platformLegacy sources are moved to Google Cloud, then served to the whole organization through standardized Power BI models.

Before

After

One Power BI foundation for global reporting, faster, and business teams who use it more on their own.

Technologies: Power BI
Google Cloud
SQL Server
Cognos
Qlik Sense
DAX
Agile / Scrum
Format: Power BI product ownership and Agile delivery, with a developer team.
Practice: BI & analytics

Contact

We consolidate your BI on Power BI and the cloud, from inventory to adoption by your teams.

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