Healthcare Power BI Migration Powers Next-Generation Analytics Platform: Complete Environment Transformation
About Company
A leading international healthcare and diagnostic services provider operating across Europe, delivering comprehensive medical care to millions of patients. As a healthcare organisation managing sensitive patient data and complex operational analytics, they require a robust, secure, and compliant reporting infrastructure that meets stringent healthcare industry standards while supporting data-driven decision-making across multiple facilities and service lines.
The organisation operates in the highly regulated healthcare sector, where data security, auditability, and operational efficiency are not just competitive advantages but fundamental requirements for delivering quality patient care and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Services and Technology
Challenge
The client faced a critical analytics modernisation challenge requiring the complete transformation of their Power BI environment to Microsoft Fabric while maintaining operational continuity and healthcare compliance standards.
- Incomplete environment visibility: The organisation lacked complete information about their existing reporting environment, data sources, and user access patterns, creating uncertainty around migration scope and requirements.
- Complex licensing structure: The reporting environment operated on a hybrid licensing model, combining Power BI Pro and Premium Per User licenses, which created cost inefficiencies and management complexity that required optimisation.
- Healthcare compliance: Managing access to sensitive healthcare information requires stringent security controls, audit trails, and compliance frameworks that must be maintained throughout the migration process.
Solution
- Comprehensive audit: Elitmind conducted a thorough assessment of the existing Power BI environment to understand the current state, identify all reporting assets, map data sources, analyze Azure infrastructure dependencies, and document user requirements before beginning the migration.
- MS Fabric configuration: Our team configured Microsoft Fabric, leveraging the OneLake architecture with healthcare-specific considerations, and implemented Azure Active Directory integration, role-based access controls, and ensured that industry compliance requirements were built into the platform from the foundation.
- Complete migration: Elitmind executed a full migration of Power BI reports, datasets, and dataflows to the Microsoft Fabric platform, utilising Lakehouse architecture, establishing Fabric Capacity management, configuring workspace governance, and implementing dedicated monitoring capabilities through Azure Monitor and Fabric admin portal, ensuring zero data loss and maintaining business continuity throughout the transition process.
Results
The Microsoft Fabric migration delivered transformative results, positioning the client with a modern, centrally managed analytics platform that optimizes costs while exceeding healthcare industry security and compliance requirements.
Without this migration, the organization would have continued facing licensing inefficiencies, fragmented reporting infrastructure, and potential compliance risks in an increasingly regulated healthcare environment.
Business Impact:
- Cost optimization: Centralized Fabric Capacity licensing model reduced Power BI Pro and Premium Per User licensing costs while providing enhanced capabilities and better resource utilization across the organization.
- Enhanced security: Healthcare-compliant access management through Azure Active Directory, row-level security (RLS), and comprehensive audit trails ensure sensitive patient data remains protected while meeting HIPAA and GDPR regulatory requirements for data governance.
- Operational efficiency: Centrally managed reporting platform with OneLake integration eliminated administrative overhead, enabling IT teams to focus on value-added analytics rather than infrastructure maintenance.
- Future-ready foundation: Modern Microsoft Fabric architecture with integrated Databricks capabilities positions the client for advanced analytics capabilities including Azure AI integration, real-time Power BI streaming, and data science workloads across their healthcare operations.
Tailored for success
"This Power BI to Microsoft Fabric migration exemplified our expertise in delivering complex healthcare analytics transformations. Migrating an entire Power BI environment while maintaining healthcare compliance requirements and optimizing licensing structures required meticulous planning and deep technical knowledge of Azure ecosystem, Fabric architecture, and data governance frameworks.
Our team's understanding of Microsoft Fabric's OneLake architecture, Lakehouse capabilities, Databricks integration, and healthcare industry regulations enabled us to deliver a solution that not only modernized the client's analytics infrastructure but established a foundation for future innovation with AI and real-time analytics. This project demonstrates why Elitmind is the trusted partner for mission-critical healthcare analytics migrations in regulated industries."
Radosław Kępa, CEO & Co-founder of Elitmind
Our Approach
Complete discovery and documentation of existing infrastructure, datasets, and dependencies
Azure Active Directory, role-based access controls, and audit logging designed for regulated industries
Next-generation OneLake platform optimized for healthcare analytics
Advanced analytics and data science capabilities within unified platform
Cost-effective Fabric Capacity model replacing fragmented Power BI licensing
Seamless transition with Azure Monitor and Fabric admin portal monitoring