Tableau to Power BI Migration - sharing my experience

I have recently done a big Tableau to Power BI migration project for a client and I want to share some of my thoughts.

1. Power BI is a lot cheaper than Tableau. The client used to pay for 5 Tableau creator licenses and 70+ tableau viewer licenses. As a result their total tableau expense came to $3,000+ USD. When we switched the reporting to Power BI, the cost came to around $700 per month.
2. It is amazing how many reports are not actually after they are created. In the beginning of the project we sat down to review what reports needed to be migrated vs total Tableau reports. Out of 100+ reports only 20 of them were migrated to Power BI!
3. Some visual customisations of Tableau visuals are not available in Power BI. For example, I really struggled with replicating this Tableau graph in Power BI. I ended up finding a custom visual to replicate this exact look and feel.

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Beyond straight migration I feel there are additional efficiencies that are possible to unlock as part of those migration projects:

Check if any of your reports share a data source. Perhaps you could consolidate multiple reports into one? This way you will have less datasets to maintain.

Could you retire other tools as part of this migration? For example Alteryx is often used with Tableau and the licensing for it is quite expensive. It is often possible to replace Alteryx data transformation steps with Power Query. I would recommend to

Could you build additional automations as part of the migration project? For example Power BI connects to some data sources which Tableau doesn't connect to e.g. Zoho Creator.

Could you improve the visual interface beyond simply replicating the look and feel from Tableau? A migration project could be a good time to work on the cosmetic changes that were put on a back burner previously.

Has your company considered migrating from Tableau to Power BI?

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