Basecamp · BI Modernization
Stop waiting for dashboards. Ask your data anything.
Replace Tableau and Power BI with AI-powered, always-live analytics built directly into your Databricks Lakehouse. Business users ask questions in plain English. Genie generates accurate, governed SQL against live Unity Catalog data, instantly.
Who this is for.
If your BI estate sits on Tableau or Power BI, three forces are converging on your platform decision right now.
Tableau strategic uncertainty under Salesforce
Salesforce's roadmap for Tableau remains unclear. Long-term platform bets on Tableau carry growing platform risk.
Power BI locks you into the Microsoft stack
Fabric bundling pulls more of your analytics into Microsoft's ecosystem. Your platform roadmap ends up in the vendor's hands, not yours.
Per-seat AI add-ons with no schema awareness
Tableau and Power BI's bolt-on AI features do not know your Unity Catalog. Genie is trained on your data from day one.
The numbers.
- $0
Per-user BI licensing on Genie consumption pricing
- 60%
Lower analytics platform cost post-migration
- 100%
Live data. Zero extracts to maintain.
- 10×
Faster time to insight on ad-hoc questions
The Problem.
Stale extracts, lagging pipelines
TDEs and PBIX datasets are copies. They lag, fail, and need constant maintenance on top of your Lakehouse.
Every metric waits for an analyst
Self-service stays a promise. Business users queue for weeks while the dashboard backlog never clears.
Power BI raised prices by 40% in April 2025
Per-seat pricing scales with headcount, not usage — every new hire is another license. Tableau Creator runs $75 to $115 per user per month.
Every team has its own version of the truth
Merchandising, finance, and ops each built workbooks on their own definitions. The board gets two numbers for the same metric.
The Solution.
AI/BI Genie
Business users ask questions in plain English. Genie answers with governed SQL against live data — no ticket, no multi-week analyst queue.
AI/BI Dashboards
Priority dashboards rebuilt on live data, not nightly extracts. Always current, read from the same governed definitions, with no per-seat license to renew.
Unity Catalog Semantic Layer
Every metric gets one governed definition in Unity Catalog. Genie, dashboards, and future agents read from the same source of truth — not three versions of it.
How it works.
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PHASE 01 · 1–2 WK
Assess
Inventory workbooks and reports. Find the 80% drivers. Validate that source data lands clean, current, and trustworthy in your Lakehouse.
Ships: Readiness Report
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PHASE 02 · 2–3 WK
Design
Reconcile metric definitions into one governed Unity Catalog semantic layer. Architect Genie Spaces by domain. Sequence priorities.
Ships: Target Architecture
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PHASE 03 · 3–8 WK
Migrate
Rebuild priority dashboards. Train Genie. Retire extracts. Enable users.
Ships: Live Dashboards & Genie
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PHASE 04 · 1–2 WK
Optimize
Tune accuracy. Expand domains. Retire BI licenses. Measure ROI.
Ships: Retired Licenses & Measured ROI
Common questions
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001 Can Genie actually replace everything Tableau does?
Not every pixel-perfect report on day one. We rebuild the priority dashboards that drive decisions and move ad-hoc analysis to natural language Genie queries, retiring Tableau workload by workload rather than all at once.
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002 What about Tableau calculated fields and Power BI DAX measures?
That business logic moves into the Unity Catalog semantic layer, so calculated fields and DAX measures become governed, reusable definitions instead of formulas trapped in individual workbooks.
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003 How accurate is Genie's natural language SQL?
Genie is trained on your Unity Catalog from day one, so it generates accurate, governed SQL against live data — rather than guessing at your schema the way bolt-on AI features do.
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004 What happens to dashboards we do not migrate right away?
They keep running. Migration is staged by domain with parallel-run validation, so existing dashboards stay live until their replacement is validated and users are moved across.
Ready to map your engagement?
Walk away with a Basecamp recommendation and a 90-day roadmap to production. Thirty minutes.