Organizations invest a tremendous amount of time to develop and deploy tooling strategies – but with the rapidly evolving nature of BI technology, they often find that a new platform would better meet their analytical needs, or better suit the capabilities of their maturing user base. But they’re deterred from transitioning to a new BI tool. The level of effort and cost to rationalize and transition content is too high. Instead, they miss out on enhancing their capabilities with the most advanced and user friendly tools.
Enhancing Self-Service Capabilities and a Future-Ready BI Platform
As an analytics environment matures, it’s common for organizations to uncover gaps with their BI tooling strategy. In our experience, the most common limitations we see when adopting a self-serving BI tool are:
- Limited data discovery or exploration capabilities
- An overwhelming user experience
- A heavy reliance on rigid dashboarding
- Redundant content and data
This realization can lead to the decision to supplement or entirely transition an organization’s BI platform.
By migrating to Looker with the help of Nousot’s BI Migration Accelerator with GenAI, you can better enable your user base and more effectively democratize data through its advanced data discovery, user friendly, and scalable BI capabilities. Looker’s semantic layer, API first approach, and code-based platform allows organizations to rapidly integrate evolving technology and embrace advanced analytics.
Automating with GenAI
Manually taking inventory, rationalizing, and migrating dashboards is a time-consuming effort and significant deterrent to adopting a new tool. Through our expertise with GenAI and Looker’s code-based platform, we’ve modernized this process, automating the extraction of metadata from PowerBI workbooks and the generation of LookML code. This not only facilitates a faster and more efficient migration, but also offers more opportunities for dashboard optimization and enhancement.
Benefits of Our Solution
Time and Cost Efficiency
Our accelerator dramatically reduces the migration timeframe, significantly cutting down the costs and level of effort associated with manual migrations.
Scalability and Speed
Designed to handle large migration efforts, our accelerator can handle large batches of dashboards, quickly scaling up your Looker environment.
Reclaim Time of Skilled Developers
By automating as much of this process as possible, skilled developers and analysts, who normally perform the 100% of the migration process, can reclaim their valuable time to focus on further enhancement and optimization efforts.
Highly Customizable
Our accelerator is highly customizable and transferable to each specific environment.
Built on Standard Large Language Models (LLMs)
We built our solution with generally available LLMs that are standard to the public. We like Gemini, but with Vertex AI and Model Garden, you have the flexibility to choose.
Automated Metadata Collection
Easily extracting all BI metadata in the environment, serves not just migration purposes but also aiding in content rationalization and inventory management. This can support ongoing environment maintenance and code generation.
Looking Towards the Future
BI tools are not “one size fits all” and with the rapid pace of BI tool innovation and generative AI, adjustments in tooling strategy shouldn’t be an illusion, but rather a possibility. Our modernization of this process alleviates the barriers associated with BI migration and allows organizations to take advantage of enhanced capabilities provided by Looker. Embracing a flexible, future-ready BI environment will allow organizations to not only take advantage of ever-evolving technologies but also ever-evolving capabilities of its user base. This is made easier with our BI Migration Accelerator.
Use GenAI to take the first step towards a more dynamic, flexible, and insights-driven future by migrating to Looker with our BI Migration Accelerator.
* This content was originally published on Nousot.com. Nousot and Lovelytics merged in April 2025.
