BI Migration

BI Migration: Move from Tableau or PowerBI to Vizier Without Disruption

The Algorithm handles the migration — extracting existing reports, recreating critical views, training staff, and ensuring zero disruption during the transition. We've done this before. We know which reports to recreate and which ones nobody was actually using.

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2–4 wksmigration timeline — not the 6 months your current vendor took
Why Organizations Switch

The Reasons Are Consistent — and Fixable

Per-Seat Licensing Accumulation
Tableau charges $75/creator/month plus $15/viewer/month. PowerBI Premium charges per capacity unit plus per-user licensing. As your organization grows and more staff need access, the licensing cost grows with it — often past $100K/year for mid-size health systems. Vizier's flat monthly fee doesn't change when you add the fifth user.
IT Dependency for Clinical Reports
Every new report requires a ticket to IT, a wait of days or weeks, and a result that answers a slightly different question than was asked. Clinical staff stop asking because the turnaround isn't worth it. Vizier's conversational analytics let clinical users ask clinical questions without involving the IT queue.
No Clinical Context
Tableau and PowerBI are built for general business intelligence. Building a MIPS composite score calculation requires writing DAX formulas that understand healthcare denominators, exclusion logic, and inverse measure scoring — skills that generic BI teams don't have. Vizier is built with clinical context built in.
The Dashboard Graveyard
The industry average BI adoption rate is 21%. Organizations end up with 200 dashboards in their Tableau server, 12 people using 8 of them, and hundreds of hours of development work that nobody looks at. The problem isn't the tool — it's that generic BI tools require constant IT involvement and don't map to clinical workflows.
The Fear of Switching

"We've Invested Years in Our Current Setup"

This is the most common objection — and it's worth taking seriously. If your organization has spent two years building dashboards in Tableau, that represents real investment. The honest answer: most of that investment wasn't in the reports that matter.

When we run a report inventory audit at the start of a migration engagement, the pattern is consistent: organizations with 150+ dashboards have 20–40 that people actually open regularly. Those 20–40 reports represent your real analytics program. The rest are artifacts of projects, one-off requests, and experiments that never became habits.

The critical reports — the ones your quality director checks every Monday, the ones that go into board presentations, the ones that drive clinical decisions — can be recreated in Vizier in 1–2 weeks. We prioritize those first, run both systems in parallel during the transition, and cut over once your team has confirmed everything they need is available.

The reports nobody uses don't need to be recreated. That's not loss — it's clarity about what your analytics program actually is.

THE MIGRATION MATH
Total dashboards in your current system
~150
Dashboards opened in the last 30 days
~30
Dashboards that drive actual decisions
~15
Dashboards that need to be recreated
15–30
Time to recreate in Vizier
1–2 weeks
Time to decommission the rest
Immediate
Cost Comparison

What Per-Seat Licensing Actually Costs at Scale

TABLEAU ENTERPRISE — TYPICAL HEALTH SYSTEM
10 creator licenses × $75/mo
$9,000/yr
50 viewer licenses × $15/mo
$9,000/yr
Azure/cloud hosting fees
$8,400/yr
BI analyst salary (partial allocation)
$45,000/yr
IT maintenance and configuration time
$15,000/yr
Annual total
$86,400/yr
VIZIER — SAME ORGANIZATION
Flat monthly subscription (unlimited users)
$1,497/mo
Per-seat licensing fees
$0
API integration maintenance
$0
BI analyst dependency
$0
Implementation cost (The Algorithm)
Included
Annual total
$17,964/yr
What You Get

A Managed Migration With Zero Analytics Downtime

Report inventory audit with usage analysis — which reports are actually being used
Migration plan with prioritization: critical reports first, decommission the rest
Recreated views for all critical reports, validated against your source data
Parallel running period — both systems active until your team confirms readiness
Staff training calibrated to each role's actual use cases
Cutover support and 30-day post-migration optimization

The parallel running period is not optional — it's how we ensure your team doesn't lose access to analytics during the transition. Both systems run simultaneously until your quality director, revenue cycle team, and clinical staff have verified that everything they need is available in Vizier. Then you cut over and cancel the old license.

Training isn't "how to use the new tool." It's "your team asked questions before; now they ask them differently." We train staff on how to formulate clinical questions in Vizier's conversational interface — which is faster than pulling a pre-built report in Tableau once they know how to use it.

How It Works

Audit, Migrate, Train, Cutover

STEP 01
Report Inventory Audit
We pull a usage report from your current BI system. We identify which dashboards were accessed in the last 30 days, which ones are used by more than one person, and which ones drive decisions versus satisfying curiosity. The audit takes one week and produces a prioritized recreation list.
STEP 02
Critical Report Recreation
We recreate your critical reports in Vizier — typically 15–30 views — with validation that the numbers match your current system. Clinical reports are configured with Vizier's clinical context: correct denominator logic, measure-aware thresholds, and clinical interpretation guidance built into the display.
STEP 03
Parallel Running & Cutover
Both systems run simultaneously for 2–4 weeks. Your staff use both, confirm that Vizier answers everything they need, and flag anything missing. When everyone is ready, you cut over. We help you cancel the old license and capture the savings.
Timeline & Outcomes

What to Expect and When

The full migration — audit through cutover — takes six to eight weeks. The parallel running period is the longest phase; it's the one that gives your team confidence. License cancellation and savings realization happen in month two.

Week 1
Report inventory audit — identify what's used, what's not, what needs to be recreated
Weeks 2–3
Critical report recreation in Vizier, validated against current system numbers
Week 4
Parallel running period begins — both systems active, staff trained
Month 2
Cutover: team confirms readiness, Vizier becomes primary system
Month 2+
Old license canceled, savings realized, 30-day post-migration support active
21%
current BI adoption rate industry average
80%+
Vizier adoption rate after role-based training
$0
per-seat licensing fees after migration
2–4 wks
migration timeline from audit to cutover
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Start With a Report Inventory Audit

Schedule a 30-minute consultation. We'll walk through what a migration engagement looks like, estimate the timeline for your specific system, and calculate the licensing cost savings you'd realize in year one.