Homegrown / custom BI → Power BI
Retire the custom stack that only a few people can touch.
Homegrown and custom BI systems grow antiquated, inflexible, and hard to support. They are not best-in-class. Mid-market owners and ops leads move to Power BI so reporting stops depending on one fragile build.
Why leave
Antiquated, inflexible, unsupported, not best-in-class
Antiquated
The custom stack was built for yesterday’s questions. New data sources and new KPIs pile onto a design that was never meant to grow.
Inflexible + hard to support
Every change needs the one person who knows the build. That is expensive and fragile. Power BI changes land with the platform and a wider talent pool.
Not best-in-class
Custom does not mean better. Power BI is the market standard mid-market buyers can hire for, train on, and hand to the next operator without a private manual.
Next step
Archive the private stack. Land on Power BI.
Book a Session to map what the custom system still owns—then rebuild the first critical views on Power BI while the old stack goes to archive.