Background
A global manufacturing giant needed to streamline over 6,000 complex Power BI dashboards, including the cloning and migration of 2,600 dashboards into a modern analytics environment. Redundant reports, manual QA efforts, and escalating compute costs were causing operational inefficiencies, compromising data quality, and delaying decision-making.
Solution
Affine developed and implemented a two-pronged approach to accelerate and optimize the BI modernization initiative: 1. Usage-Based Filtering Analyzed report usage logs, access frequency patterns, and metadata Identified and decommissioned underutilized dashboards 2. GenAI-Powered PBI Comparer System Built an Agentic GenAI platform to perform semantic, layout, and dataflow comparisons Enabled side-by-side automated comparisons of dashboards Mapped similarities across visuals, KPIs, DAX/M queries, and data models Streamlined faster validation, consolidation, and migration with minimal human intervention
Impact
Cloned and rationalized 2,600 dashboards ~30% reduction in compute and storage costs Improved data governance and version control across reporting assets Enabled faster, more reliable insights for business users