Vortex: AI-Powered Migration to Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Made Simple

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Legacy platforms create data silos blocking innovation. Manual migrations take 12+ months with 83% failing. See how AI automation transforms this: smart rationalization prioritizes assets, automated conversion handles apps and pipelines, and optimization ensures quality. Watch live demos and hear how one organization migrated an app portfolio in months, unlocking Fabric's modern capabilities.

Key Takeaways

• Business logic validation
• Custom visual finishing
• UAT preparation & support
• Full steam ahead on development
• Source data ingestion in progress into Snowflake for creation of Power BI sematic models
• Metadata analysis ongoing to unpack 15 years and hundreds of developers' worth of logic
• Business stakeholders engaged for team sessions and ad-hoc reporting questions ahead of UAT

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Vortex: AI-Powered Migration to
Power BI / Microsoft Fabric
Made Simple
Andrew Beier
Sr. Director, Data & AI Integration
Edwards Lifesciences
Nathan Hombroek
Vortex®
VP, Innovation at Axis Group
Axis Group
Your Organization Is
Ready for Fabric.
Your Data Estate
Isn’t.
Data Silos
Fragmented platforms lock insights in
disconnected systems, blocking
cross-functional decisions.
Tableau
Qlik Sense
Stalled Innovation
Teams spend cycles maintaining
legacy infrastructure instead of
building what's next.
QlikView
IBM Cognos
Mounting Costs
Redundant licensing, sprawling vendor
contracts, and technical debt
compound year over year.
MicroStrategy
SSRS

• many more
  Manual Migrations Are Designed to Fail
  83%
  12+
  3×
  of traditional BI migrations
  fail or stall before completion
  months average timeline
  for manual migration projects
  average cost overrun vs.
  original project estimates
  Volume
  Hundreds or thousands of assets. No
  team can manually assess and convert at
  scale.
  Complexity
  Tangled dependencies, undocumented
  logic, and cross-platform pipelines
  multiply risk.
  Manual Effort
  Line-by-line conversion burns analyst and
  developer time with no guarantee of
  quality.
  There Has to Be
  a Better Way.
  What if your migration could be measured in weeks instead of years —
  with AI handling the heavy lifting at every step?
  Legacy
  Platform
  Vortex
  Migration
  Microsoft
  Fabric
  Introducing Vortex®:
  The Champion of Migration to Fabric
  Rationalize Your
  Legacy Apps
  Convert &
  Optimize With AI
  Last Mile
  Development
  Retire the outdated, migrate
  the essential, reimagine the
  valuable.
  From legacy complexity to a
  modern stack, at lightning
  speed.
  Catapult your analytics from
  fragmented to Fabricpowered future.
  Strategic Rationalization
  From Insight to Action
  Comprehensive Environment Analysis
  Detailed App Runbooks
  Data Lineage
  Auto-Convert with Vortex®
  Maximizing Migration Value
  Vortex liberates your
  data and empowers
  your team.
  Meticulous Recreation
  Unwavering Consistency
  Intelligent Optimization
  Last Mile Development Acceleration
  Automation Gets You Far.
  Expertise Gets You There.
  Last Mile Development — where Vortex hands off and
  Humans take over.
  Axis Expert Coverage
  Edge case resolution · Business logic validation · UAT acceleration ·
  Dev cycle compression
  Vortex
  Automation
  Last Mile
  Development
  Live on
  Fabric
  COMPLETE
  NOW
  AHEAD
  75%
  Weeks
  100%
  of dev work
  eliminated by Vortex
  not months,
  to cross the finish line
  Axis coverage on
  every edge case
  Last Mile Development Includes
  • Business logic validation
  • Performance tuning
  • Custom visual finishing
  • UAT preparation & support
  Vortex Live Demo
  Seeing is Believing
  Edwards Lifesciences
  Ongoing Journey to Fabric with
  Vortex
  Vortex at Edwards Lifesciences
  Setting the Stage
  THE LEGACY BI DATA ESTATE
  180 UIs
  650 ETLs
  1,000+
  Qlik UIs (QS + QV)
  ETL Apps
  In Migration Scope
  Edwards
  Lifesciences
  Medical Devices · Cardiac Care · Irvine, CA
  $6B
  16K
  15yrs
  Annual Revenue
  ROADBLOCKS AND ALTERNATIVES
  Employees Worldwide
  Many Hands, Many
  Standards
  Escalating Licensing
  Costs
  The Body Shop
  Alternative
  of Legacy BI Development
  15 years of internal and
  external teams bringing
  many unique frameworks
  Qlik licensing growing
  annually with no path to
  consolidation.
  Manual migration requiring
  hundreds of consultants
  and years.
  Why Vortex and Fabric
  Vortex demonstrated automation at a scale no manual approach could match, compressing a multi-year
  program into an approachable timeline, without the headcount risk.
  Vortex at Edwards Lifesciences
  Migration
  Planning
  Vortex
  Automation
  Last Mile
  Development
  UAT
  Wave 1
  Live on
  Fabric
  ITERATING
  ITERATING
  ACTIVE
  AHEAD
  AHEAD
  The Journey
  UIs migrated
  WHAT’S UNDERWAY
  • Full steam ahead on development
  • Source data ingestion in progress into Snowflake for creation of Power BI sematic models
  • Metadata analysis ongoing to unpack 15 years and hundreds of developers' worth of logic
  • Business stakeholders engaged for team sessions and ad-hoc reporting questions ahead of UAT
  • Methodical prioritization of ETL and Qlik UIs by business value
  ETLs migrated
  70%
  UI Automation Rate
  NEXT MILESTONE
  20% of the full data estate targeted for UAT by end of April — UAT Wave 1 starting April, with the business running
  validation directly.
  Vortex at Edwards Lifesciences
  What the Journey is Unlocking
  Fabric Foundations Built
  Cost Savings
  Snowflake → Fabric/Power BI
  End-to-end Fabric environment stood up and ready
  with lakehouses, pipelines, and workspace
  governance in place before migration completes.
  Eliminates licensing costs and reduces reliance on
  specialized outside developers by leveraging a
  citizen developer model.
  Source data flowing from Snowflake directly into
  Fabric/Power BI, consolidating the data estate and
  eliminating redundant pipeline maintenance.
  COMPLETED
  UNLOCKED
  UNLOCKED
  Unified Ecosystem
  Modern Analytics Experience
  AI & Copilot Readiness & Democratization
  A single, consistent platform replacing fragmented
  Qlik environments granting faster access and a
  cleaner UX.
  Power BI on Fabric gives business users modern,
  intuitive tools, empowering teams to answer their
  own questions.
  The Fabric foundation positions Edwards to
  position Copilot and AI-powered analytics on the
  roadmap as migration reaches completion.
  UNLOCKED
  UNLOCKED
  ON THE ROADMAP
  Vortex Fabric Acceleration
  The Journey Starts Today
  The Fabric Opportunity Is Now
  Fabric Momentum Is Accelerating
  The Cost of Waiting Compounds
  Microsoft is consolidating its entire data stack into Fabric —
  OneLake, Real-Time Intelligence, Copilot integration. Early movers
  are establishing platform advantage now.
  Every month on legacy platforms adds licensing overhead,
  technical debt, and talent friction. The gap between where you are
  and where you need to be grows wider — not smaller.
  Organizations that migrate now will have 12–18 months of Fabric-native capability-building before
  the next wave of competitors even starts. Vortex is the on-ramp — not a someday project.
  Migration Is
  Just the
  Beginning.
  The real value isn't replication. It's what Fabric
  unlocks the moment you arrive. Axis experts are
  with you every step: diagnosing edge cases,
  guiding decisions, making sure you land ready.
  AI & Copilot Readiness
  UNLOCKED
  OneLake Integration
  UNLOCKED
  Direct Lake Performance
  UNLOCKED
  Real-Time Intelligence
  UNLOCKED
  Consolidated, Governed Ecosystem
  UNLOCKED
  Business Potential
  UNLEASHED
  Your Journey Starts
  With One Conversation
  Free Strategy Session
  Walk away with a clear picture of what you
  have, what's worth migrating, and what a
  realistic timeline looks like for your
  organization.
  Visit Booth #812
  Strategic Rationalization
  Stop guessing what to move. Vortex
  delivers a prioritized migration backlog
  backed by usage data, dependency
  mapping, and complexity scoring.
  Request a Demo
  Pilot Migration
  Convert a real slice of your portfolio endto-end and see Vortex's accuracy, speed,
  and quality validation in your own
  environment before scaling.
  Questions? migrations@axisgroup.com
  Vortex Powered Migration to Fabric
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