Introduction to BIPort: A Solution for Enterprises Facing Fragmented BI Systems

Discover how enterprises are transforming fragmented BI environments into unified, cloud-native analytics with BIPort—simplifying operations and reducing complexity.

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About the Webinar

Many enterprises today operate in fragmented BI environments, using multiple tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and legacy reporting systems. This creates challenges in achieving true self-service analytics, increases operational complexity, and drives up both licensing and maintenance costs.

In this webinar, we discuss how organizations can move away from fragmented BI setups toward a more unified, cloud-native approach. We introduce BIPort, Sparity’s solution designed to help enterprises simplify their BI landscape by enabling seamless transition of reports while preserving existing business logic.

The session also explores how aligning with the Microsoft ecosystem helps organizations improve data accessibility, reduce costs, and create a strong foundation for future data and AI initiatives.

What You’ll Learn

Why fragmented BI environments create inefficiencies
Understand the challenges of managing multiple BI tools, including limited self-service capabilities, difficulty in switching between platforms, and increasing administrative overhead.

The need for a unified, cloud-native BI approach
Learn why enterprises are moving toward integrated ecosystems that align with cloud platforms and enterprise licensing models.

Key cost and operational drivers behind BI modernization
Explore how rising licensing costs, mandatory upgrades, and maintenance efforts are pushing organizations to rethink their BI strategy.

How BIPort enables seamless BI transition
See how existing reports can be transitioned while preserving business knowledge and minimizing disruption to end users.

How BI modernization supports future data and AI initiatives
Understand how a unified BI foundation enables better data accessibility and supports advanced analytics and AI use cases.

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00:00	Ari Wajnberg That's fly Fireflies. Oh, that's okay. Not taker. All right. Oh good. Yeah, we need that. Two Reish. One thing that I want to make absolutely certain of, you know, from a format when we're doing a briefing, what we want to do.
00:27	Harish Cholleti You.
00:27	Ari Wajnberg Know, as we prospect is going to be probably some qualification of the leads etc, but start them off with a. This is what it is. I want to, you know, put together a, you know, a two page deck very Chris tells the story right before we go into a demo. Because what we want to show is yes, it's a solution that is broadly usable regardless of whether you're trying to convert from crystal reports or converting from tableau. But we also have the ability to, regardless of whatever we ingest, we can make a bespoke, basically a bespoke dashboard for your business. We'll construct one preliminarily, but we can create a bespoke dashboard for whatever you need in order to use your data. Does that make sense?
01:53	Harish Cholleti Absolutely.
01:55	Ari Wajnberg The other question, the other question. I got this is something that just hit me. So say you've got a client and they've got multiple sites, could be up, you know, once and again this is, this happens, there's three. Hey Sri, I was posing a question to Harish and I'm, I'm think, I'm thinking I know the answer but I want to confirm. So you got a multi site client, all right, or you're working with a private equity firm that's got multiple portfolio companies, all right, And a lot of that could have multiple data sources in different formats. I want to make sure that if by port, if we're going to be ingesting data, we can ingest multiple data sources and still put that into whatever dashboard or whatever format is needed so that the customer has the data that they need. Does that make sense?
03:25	Harish Cholleti Yeah, you are partially right. I, I could get you BI ports role is limited in data ingestion. Okay, let me give you a little more interesting insights. Today's, today's world they are expecting, you know, basically large enterprises or medium sized enterprises are one of the challenge. They have a fragmented approach in terms of business intelligence. Okay, so they have tableau, they have crystal reports as the BI and I mean evolve. They have multiple systems but the end users are still facing the challenge of self service analytics. Okay. See they are no way concerned about today's problem of what is the problem of a data engineer. And Director of Data. Okay. Their problem, their. What they need as a solution is you know, self Service Analytics. Okay. Number one. So Tableau, SAP or click a little far away from Self service Analytics.
04:52	Harish Cholleti Number one, the basic reason is these are all standalone BA platforms.
05:00	Ari Wajnberg Yep.
05:01	Harish Cholleti Right. You understand, right. So Tableau does not have a data modeling layer. It has its own, but it cannot comply with other, it cannot work with other platforms.
05:12	Ari Wajnberg It's Tableau. Well, if I'm thinking of it from prior experience, you've got a data lake, you've got Tableau sitting over top of it. That's your, that's your transformation layer. And you can play with it as long as you know what the. As long as you know what the schema looks like.
05:35	Harish Cholleti Right? Right. So today's world is expecting cloud native BI architecture and very close to enterprise license agreements. Microsoft already has footprint across small medium large enterprises with cloud as their Microsoft Azure and Office 365 penetration. So saying so today, you know, that is the reason most people are looking towards one, it is cloud native BI architecture. Two today the price is also, I mean the enterprises have a price sensitive model. Okay. So they don't, they cannot bear the, you know, higher pricing of standalones BI systems.
06:30	Ari Wajnberg Got it.
06:31	Harish Cholleti That's while Tableau can sit on top of any data lake but itself, itself is not, you know, as part of enterprise license agreement. Right. Say for example my organization has Microsoft Office 365 where is an enterprise license agreement. I am getting my E5 license which is nothing but you know, Power BI is embedded into it on top of it in the cloud native BI architecture and AI powered analytics. Power BI has evolved a lot with Copilot integration. That is where the self service BI and data democratization is happening. One with the power of Microsoft fabric which we call it as unified data platform. Okay. From ingestion and today when you have Microsoft fabric again the, you know, enterprise license agreement does not allow you to visualize the reports in Tableau. Right. Okay.
07:41	Harish Cholleti So that is the reason enterprises are moving from Tableau or Qlik or several other platforms to Power bi. Let me take one example of one of the customer and I'll pause it here. Centara, which is a healthcare company based out of East Coast Microsoft has funded their data modernization from several data platforms to databricks. Microsoft Azure databricks. Okay. However you know Centara has about 700 Tableau reports and about 100 Power BI reports. Sure. Okay. So this Microsoft funding got stopped because they have Tableau as their end. You end of BI layer.
08:40	Ari Wajnberg Let's. So. So they've got part of their enterprise business intelligence that they're doing is running off of Tableau. Part of it's running off of Power bi. And the two, they. They can't get a full picture without essentially extracting everything. Yeah, okay, got it. That's a huge issue.
09:09	Harish Cholleti And when you have fragmented business intelligence tools, right. When you have Tableau, when we have Power bi, okay. The users also today have one of the challenge, okay. Switching from Tableau to Barbie for certain reports. For certain reports, they'll have to depend on Power bi. And the administration becomes challenging the cost.
09:33	Ari Wajnberg Oh yeah, it does. Plus cost prohibitive because.
09:37	Harish Cholleti Exactly.
09:38	Ari Wajnberg Prohibitive. Because Salesforce wants theirs.
09:43	Harish Cholleti Salesforce wants to mint money.
09:47	Ari Wajnberg Yep.
09:48	Harish Cholleti Right. So that's what they have been doing. They're increasing the prices by 20, 25%. They've increased the prices in last three years by 25. Okay. And they've brought in new, you know, things what we call. They call it as. As you know, in the software world, there is a, you know, mechanism to, you know, remove the. I mean, making the versions obsolete. Right. Today a Tableau user or a Tableau company, a company which has implemented Tableau has to mandatory update in two years. That is 24 months.
10:33	Ari Wajnberg Does there. Because I know in Microsoft Enterprise, depending on your enterprise agreement, most of those updates, you know, are included as part of your license.
10:48	Harish Cholleti Why will. Why will Salesforce give that. But.
10:52	Ari Wajnberg But what I'm saying, Salesforce does not.
10:56	Harish Cholleti Right. So there is a manual effort involved in migrating from version to the other version. Testing is involved. So it is not cloud native. Right. So to keep the lights on, the company has to keep investing on the upgrades though. It. The upgrade might. Might be part of the licensing agreement. But still to keep the lights on, the company has to invest in terms of manual migration. Okay. And the cost of.
11:33	Ari Wajnberg There's a manual. There's a manual, they upgrade, there's a manual.
11:43	Harish Cholleti So that's a new, you know, thing that Tableau has brought up. But Power BI, unlike as an office, is completely embedded in Office 365. Okay. And on top of it, there is no, you know, I mean the user side of it is only viewing. Okay. Desktop is all developers, so it's not going to affect the end user.
12:12	Ari Wajnberg Got it.
12:13	Harish Cholleti So those are the things are. And on top of it, the Delta Airlines, you know, head of data mentioned us. Okay. Not only the pricing, but Tableau after migrating to Tableau cloud. So they have two versions until 2019 or so they Used to have Tableau Cloud and Tableau on Prem. Now they have the, I mean they made Tableau on Prem, you know, mandatory for most of the customers to migrate to Tableau Cloud.
12:44	Ari Wajnberg Okay.
12:45	Harish Cholleti So they, I mean in this context, once they migrated to Tableau Cloud, they had to invest in terms of migration cost. That's a different story here. But after the Tableau cloud has taken over, the support is also taken over by Tableau Cloud. Now the support is, you know, is too messy because even I know my vendor said they have added licenses to me, but I've not realized for one and a half month because it's all centralized rather In Microsoft Office 365, you know, the Power BI licensing, everything is at the, you know, tenant level. Activation is just the talent level. You pay, I mean pay as you go more the number of licenses with Power bi, you know, Premium, you know, it gets shot up. That kind of flexibility that Power BI gives.
13:42	Ari Wajnberg So yeah, there's like an annual true up you got to do during there's an annual true up you got to do during the licensing process.
13:50	Harish Cholleti Absolutely. So that's where, where we will evolve from a story of, you know, the enterprising need enterprises needs for you know, cloud native BI architecture and how Microsoft fabric is deep diving the ecosystem. Okay. And we will present certain real world success stories. One of the, one of the case study and then we will take it to, you know, do the demo. Do the demo. Yeah. Prime.
14:33	Ari Wajnberg Let me ask this question.
14:38	Harish Cholleti And.
14:42	Ari Wajnberg Actually two questions. First, cut into the chase. From a revenue model, how is sparity going to monetize biport? Is it going to be at the, on an engagement and a, you know, basically a maintenance.
15:08	Harish Cholleti Absolutely.
15:08	Ari Wajnberg Or is it and is it, and is it by user or is it just a, A, a fee based on revenue, number of employees? I mean, how is that. Because I'm trying to think through this, you know, from the standpoint, how disparity, you know, show. Because remember guys, hey guys, remember the it. The CIO is not the only decision maker on this. You're going to have COO and you're going to have the cheap and you're going to have the procurement guys going in there, okay, Kermit guy's gonna look, okay, how's this helping my cost? CIO is going to be doing the same thing, but the guys you're going to have to convince are the procurement guys. Because all they can see is the dollar signs.
16:11	Harish Cholleti Absolutely.
16:12	Ari Wajnberg I know this because that used to be my job at ncr. So.
16:16	Harish Cholleti So.
16:19	Ari Wajnberg How is it monetized for sparity and do you have, do we have a comparison to show cio, COO and the cpo? This is what it's going to do for you.
16:37	Harish Cholleti Absolutely. So we are building in couple of pages. Okay. We have migration ROA calculator.
16:45	Ari Wajnberg Okay, perfect.
16:47	Harish Cholleti Number one, what's parity gains out of it? Number one is basically it's a managed service model. We are, we are not in the business of giving this tool and let the client take the headache of it because migration has one of the challenge it, because it consumes a lot of energy and time from that business too is ensuring that the business knowledge is preserved.
17:16	Ari Wajnberg So the fee, so the fee includes migration but it also includes ongoing PS to support it etc. They don't have to incur additional head counter infrastructure in order to keep this thing going.
17:31	Harish Cholleti Absolutely. You've nailed it. All that the company has to do is to you know connect BI port with their tableau environment and give us the support with respect to domain and rest of the, you know handshake will happen with the Power BI reports.
17:55	Srikanth Konda So I think number one, Ari's question so one is with the migration, yes there is a cost saving. It's, it's very straightforward.
18:08	Harish Cholleti Right.
18:08	Srikanth Konda That is first thing. And migration as it is, is kind of cumbersome because you know it shouldn't affect. Because every executive would like to see.
18:22	Harish Cholleti Their dashboards every day.
18:23	Srikanth Konda So that's why the time of migration should be faster that we are taking care of. So they, if a company has say 500 tableau reports that means they would be having five or six or three or four tableau engineers. So then what will happen if they move to Power bi? I mean then they need again so many Power BI engineers and during the transition they can. So this is the hard questions. Ari, we got through. So what we proposed is you know once the migration is done we can give the support. I mean you still can have one or two on your this thing but rest, you know we can you pick the guy who knows maximum knowledge in tableau.
19:23	Srikanth Konda We'll retrain that person in Power BI and the remaining team we can do it off site support where the cost of your day to day operations also will go down. So there is a great savings in licensing and there is, you know you can also reduce the cost of your day to day, you know, generation and maintenance. Of the reports. Harish, did I miss anything?
19:58	Ari Wajnberg Basically you're going to go from multiple individual, the, the stick as it were, because you're already invested in, in Fabric, Azure and all the associated licenses within Microsoft. It's all bundled together. But instead of having a per license cost with Tableau, you still might have that data there, but you're basically going to go from multiple licenses, maybe down to a super license, super user license, all that stuff will go through and it will then go through via biport, that information transformation layer that makes it accessible via Power bi. Is, am I thinking this through correct? Am I thinking the architecture through correctly? In other words, the data is all going to be wherever the data is, but you're no longer going to have all these multiple I. Wait a minute, something just clicked. You're basically gonna, you're essentially getting rid of Tableau.
21:14	Ari Wajnberg You're converting, you're taking the information from whatever data lake you've got converts to Power BI and therefore your licenses. With Tableau, you no longer needed everything that you've already got with an enterprise license. Whatever enterprise license you have with Microsoft, it's going to be covered within Power BI anyway. So you convert it to Power BI and you have this massive savings of moving all that data out of the multiple data, the multiple transformation layers and into Tableau. And now you've got it all in Power bi. Fair statement.
21:58	Harish Cholleti Absolutely. That's where we are going to enter into their data landscape. First we are going to enter as a BA modernization specialist. Then we are going to talk about data modernization too. That is going to help the customer in achieving much more. But the entry into the enterprise is through a BI modernization.
22:25	Ari Wajnberg Got it.
22:34	Harish Cholleti That's the essence that I want to put the, I mean here and apart from that, it is, it. It is evident once we get into the shoes of chief, you know, Innovation officer or cio, then there are more problems are yet to come because it is data. AI is going to be on top of data. So if AI disruption should happen, the data lake or a lake house has to be in place. That's where it's a larger opportunity for sparity to get into innovation in terms of data warehousing. But that's a long term game for us today. What we are saying to enterprises is say for example today the cost of Power BI licensing is 50% of tableau licensing price.
23:28	Harish Cholleti If an enterprise is spending a million dollar on tableau, they don't need to spend million dollar all that they need to spend is 500k. And for the report migration, if they invest about 500k to 750k, they will realize their ROI period within a one to one and a half year. If it is manually done, it is close to two, you know, two and a half to three years. We're cutting down the time to one year. We are making the reports, you know, unifying reports and we are keeping the lights on for the enterprise.
24:08	Ari Wajnberg Yep. And it's. And it's invisible. And it's invisible to the end user.
24:14	Harish Cholleti Yeah.
24:17	Ari Wajnberg Okay, is there already a presentation in play? Because what I have not seen. Guys, I need to get a copy of that.
24:33	Harish Cholleti Definitely. So what we have done all these days is were directly marketing Tableau to Power BI Migration. But today I was speaking to Srikanth. We want to tweak a little bit in terms of saying the title is going to be something creative. Let's say. Just give me a second, I worked a little ago. Let's say it'll be the future of business intelligence.
25:08	Ari Wajnberg We gotta boil it down. We, we gotta really. Boy, because that's a dude, that's a broad, you know, because these guys are using their neurons to say, okay, what does that mean? We want to make sure that they understand very straight away that they don't. Especially these guys, they have very, you know, high signal to noise ratio. They, that gets very noisy. We want to be very prescriptive on this.
25:39	Harish Cholleti Revolutionizing data analytics, the next generation of cloud native BI platforms and Microsoft fabric.
25:45	Ari Wajnberg We gotta boil that down. Okay, I'll take. Hey, give me a shot at that, man. Give me a shot.
25:53	Harish Cholleti Sure.
25:54	Ari Wajnberg Shoot that over to here. Here's the deal with the last four minutes. Shoot me the deck, the current deck.
26:02	Harish Cholleti Okay.
26:03	Ari Wajnberg We get. Am I, I'm gonna get a copy of this Firefly. I'm gonna get a copy of the Firefly notes. Right. Okay. So what I want to do is I want to boil this bad boy down to about three or four, you know, three or three to five introductory slides.
26:18	Harish Cholleti Sure.
26:19	Ari Wajnberg Give them a, give them a. Here's what it is, here's what it does, here's what it's going to cost and here's what it's going to save you.
26:28	Harish Cholleti Absolutely.
26:29	Ari Wajnberg Okay. Then we go into the demo and the, this actually go into the success stories. Go into the demo and just say what are. When, when Would you like for us to start?
26:46	Harish Cholleti Absolutely.
26:48	Ari Wajnberg Oh, sri, does that make sense? Yeah, sri. We are speaking with the living, sir.
27:01	Srikanth Konda Yes, yes, definitely. It makes sense. I think the title is important, how you position very much so at marketing. And then we will. We will have another call probably when. When you would like to have another next call.
27:20	Ari Wajnberg Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday, next week.
27:23	Srikanth Konda Okay, let's. Let's shoot for Monday.
27:27	Ari Wajnberg Okay.
27:27	Srikanth Konda So another 30 minutes. So.
27:29	Harish Cholleti Yeah.
27:30	Srikanth Konda Meantime, Harry will go through all the marketing material and all that we have given and also we will put the title and you know how we want to present the. A webinar going to be.
27:44	Ari Wajnberg So.
27:44	Srikanth Konda And also see if we can get somebody from Microsoft also join. Let's see.
27:48	Harish Cholleti Even briefly. But that.
27:50	Srikanth Konda That is.
27:51	Harish Cholleti That is it.
27:51	Ari Wajnberg Yeah, I'm gonna give a. I'm gonna give a. I got a guy.
27:57	Harish Cholleti Okay.
27:59	Ari Wajnberg He may. Now he may not be the right guy, but I want to find out from my guy who we should. Who we should be talking to.
28:08	Harish Cholleti Absolutely. Dude. They.
28:10	Ari Wajnberg Let me tell you something. They get a hold of something like this and it's a. It's a complimentary service. Oh, they'll be all over it.
28:18	Harish Cholleti Yeah. Yeah.
28:19	Ari Wajnberg Well, yummy. You know those guys, right? Yes. So, I mean, if it's something that's going to help them hawk more product and beat out Salesforce, oh, God, they'll be all over it.
28:33	Harish Cholleti Yep.
28:33	Ari Wajnberg I gotta. I got a guy. Don't worry.
28:36	Harish Cholleti Okay. Please talk to him.
28:38	Ari Wajnberg He's my age and he's. He is a muckety muck within this, within the group. If he's not the guy, he's got several other guys that he'll want to hook up with us. All right.
28:51	Srikanth Konda Somebody.
28:51	Harish Cholleti Yeah. Okay. Great. Great.
28:55	Srikanth Konda Are we all clear?
28:56	Harish Cholleti Absolutely. Srikant is exciting. Ari is excited. Ari is excited. We are equally excited because Ari conveyed that, you know, he's going to bring someone from Microsoft. So that, that gives, you know, that brings us to more excitement. Cool.
29:16	Srikanth Konda Okay.
29:16	Ari Wajnberg All right, guys. I want you guys to have a great rest of the day.
29:20	Harish Cholleti Thank you.
29:21	Srikanth Konda Thank you, sir. Thank you.
29:22	Harish Cholleti Bye Bye.
29:23	Ari Wajnberg Bye now.
29:26	Harish Cholleti Yeah.