The Business Challenges Behind Power BI to Looker Migrations
Across enterprise Power BI assessments, the same migration challenges consistently emerge—impacting scalability, governance, and long-term analytics performance.
Reliable Business Metrics
Every team builds its own dashboard, so the same KPI shows different numbers.
Cost as usage grows
Premium capacity and per-user licensing climb with every new report added.
Slower Insights
New reports queue behind IT, so decisions wait weeks for a dashboard.
Governance & risk
Access and metric definitions are set per-report, hard to audit at scale.
Dashport, our Power BI migration accelerator
Dashport is the AI-assisted accelerator behind our Power BI migration services. It replaces slow, dashboard-by-dashboard rebuilds with a structured pipeline that reads your existing Power BI logic and reconstructs it natively in LookML — with certified Looker consultants reviewing every step.
ASSESS
Identify dashboards, reports, datasets, DAX complexity, and migration scope before work begins.
Organize
Map dashboards, data sources, relationships, and DAX dependencies into a structured migration roadmap.
MIGRATE
Rebuild semantic models and calculated fields in LookML—not a direct DAX-to-SQL translation.
ASSURE
Continuously compare visuals, metrics, filters, and SQL with the original Power BI reports to ensure accuracy.
Accurate Power BI to Looker migration by Dashport.
Watch Dashport migrate a Power BI dashboard to Looker—preserving visuals, metrics, and business logic with enterprise-grade accuracy.
Before and After Comparison - Power BI to Looker
Business impact beyond the dashboard
What Power BI modernization looks like once it's no longer a manual rebuild project.
1
De-risked rollout
Continuous validation protects business continuity through go-live, not just at the end.
2
Lower migration cost
Cuts the engineering overhead of rebuilding dozens of Power BI dashboards one by one.
3
Faster time to value
Replaces months of manual rebuild work with an accelerated path onto Looker.
4
Full team control
Your IT and BI teams review and approve every complex migration decision.
5
Guaranteed parity
Matching visuals, matching metrics, validated SQL — no surprises at go-live.
6
Clarity from day one
A scoped assessment replaces guesswork with a clear roadmap before work begins.
SquareShift has Extensive Data & BI Migration Experience
20+
Successful
Datalake Migrations
195+
Tera bytes
of Data Migrated
2300+
ETL & ELT scripts
migrated in multiple tools
5000+
Reports, Dashboards and
visualizations migrated
Delivery Experience
Certified Looker Experts. Proven Migration Success.
SquareShift brings the migration discipline to protect continuity, the delivery depth to handle scale, and the Looker expertise to make the target environment useful from day one.
Typical scope and timeline
Audit
1–2 Weeks
Inventory dashboards, DAX measures, and data sources across the Power BI estate.
Rebuild
3–6 Weeks
LookML model and measures rebuilt; dashboards reconstructed on the new semantic layer.
Reconcile
1–2 Weeks
Side-by-side validation against original Power BI reports with business stakeholders.
Cutover
1 Week
Rollout, access setup, and handover — Power BI retired on your schedule, not ours.