Case Study Migrating Industrial Reporting from Qlik to Power BI Without Losing Business Logic

Modernizing Critical Reporting Without Losing Business Logic 

How a multinational steel company modernized operational reporting while preserving business logic and functionality. 

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Industry
Multinational Steel Company

-80%
Manual effort 

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↓ -80%
Manual permission management effort

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↑ Automated
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↓ -45%
Inconsistencies between DEV and PROD

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↑ 50%
Faster lineage analysis by use case

BEFORE

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Critical reports in Qlik Sense. 

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Business logic depended on the existing model.

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Maintenance and cost analysis required a separate platform. 

NOW

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Modernized reports in Power BI and improved contorl with Governance for Power BI.

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SAP data integrated into the enterprise architecture. 

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Models designed for plant maintenance and cost analysis. 

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THE PROBLEM

Operational reporting depended on a legacy platform

  • Plant maintenance and cost analysis relied on Qlik reports 
  • Rules, metrics, and business logic had to be preserved. 
  • The company needed to migrate these analyses to the corporate Power BI environment. 
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THE SOLUTION

Functional and technical migration from Qlik to Power BI 

  • Data extraction from SAP R/3 and SAP S/4. 
  • Processing through raw, enriched, and curated layers. 
  • Consolidated models for plant maintenance and cost assessment. 
  • Reports published in the Power BI Service with RLS by center and location. 
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THE IMPACT

Critical reporting is now integrated into the corporate analytics environment. 

Teams can now view maintenance information, work orders, and costs in Power BI while preserving existing business logic and improving report availability, security, and scalability. 

Modernize Your Reporting Environment 

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Modernize reporting without losing operational insight. 

Critical maintenance and cost reports move into a modern analytics environment while preserving the business logic, metrics, and operational processes teams rely on every day.