GenAI-Driven Dashboard Rationalization Cuts Infrastructure Costs by 30%
Power BI, Dashboard Rationalization, Gen AI
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.
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
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
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