BI Modernization in 2025 | February Good Bits

Generative AI is transforming the business intelligence landscape, with leading BI tools from the cloud providers integrating AI into their products to improve performance and efficiency. As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making, the need for agile, scalable, and self-service analytics solutions has never been more apparent.

Despite innovations in BI tools, many organizations still rely on outdated systems that are difficult to integrate with modern cloud-based platforms. These legacy business intelligence environments create data silos and hinder the ability to gain a holistic view of business operations, which leads to more complexities as the data increases. 

Modern BI Tools for 2025

In today’s landscape, there are many BI tools to choose from. As organizations are modernizing their data and analytics platforms in the cloud, we often see clients exploring tools provided by the cloud providers to maintain a unified analytics environment and take advantage of AI capabilities.

• Google Cloud offers Looker which can run with Gemini AI models and integrates with BigQuery.
• Microsoft offers Power BI which works with Co-Pilot and can deploy in Microsoft Fabric.
• Amazon offers QuickSight which leverages Amazon Q for Generative BI.

BI Modernization Solution

While there are many benefits to modernizing legacy BI reports, migrating to modern cloud-based tools is no easy task. Because tools like Looker, Power BI and QuickSight offer such powerful features and functionality, we recommend that organizations re-engineer their apps to take full advantage of these capabilities rather than simply lift and shift.

Built on 25+ years of enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence experience, our BI Modernization practice and accelerators streamline the process to migrate legacy BI to cloud-native tools.

Case Studies for Modernizing BI

Organizations with a significant number of reports developed in systems like Cognos, MicroStrategy, Qlik and Tableau may feel limited by migration complexity to efficiently modernize their BI. Here are a few case studies to show how clients have successfully made the transition.

• An entertainment company migrated Tableau to Looker to optimize performance and reduce development and maintenance costs.
• A credit card company migrated a set of executive dashboards from Cognos to Power BI to understand business performance at a glance.
• A financial services company simplified decision-making and tracking of management strategy and business plans by migrating reports from Tableau to QuickSight.

Modernize BI in 2025

The BI landscape is rapidly evolving as AI innovations help business stakeholders from analysts to executives make sense of ever-growing data volume and complexity to efficiently gain insights and make decisions.

At Bitwise, we help clients to transform their legacy BI environments into robust, cloud-powered platforms using a proven migration framework and accelerators to take the guesswork out of modernization.

To discuss your specific BI needs and explore how we can help you achieve your 2025 modernization goals, Contact us today.

Stay safe and talk to you soon, 

Bitwise Newsletter Team