Legacy BI tools and on-premises data warehouses were designed during an era when storage was expensive, and the size and shape of our processing plane were static. Our goal when building with these tools was simple: reduce data movement, duplication, and churn. We ended up building data models that were difficult to express without complicated semantic models and metadata catalogs, requiring expensive enterprise BI tools that are now hard to remove. Modernization offers a leveraged solution.

Our years of experience transitioning organizations to the cloud has allowed us to build an approach that offers an integrated solution. We introduce a triage process using the MoSCoW method that allows us to work with stakeholders to understand the relative value of core data and analytics content.