Case Study: Leading Middle Eastern Bank achieves modernized reporting and self-service BI with Datamatics

Power BI Migration Transforming Reporting for a leading Middle Eastern Bank

The Leading Middle Eastern Bank faced growing reporting complexity as its legacy SAP Business Objects 4.2 environment neared end-of-life, with 6,500+ reports, limited self-service access, and heavy dependence on IT teams. It needed to modernize its BI landscape while staying compliant with UAE on-premise data regulations, and engaged Datamatics to help transition from an over-customized reporting setup to a more agile model using Microsoft Power BI and related BI tools.

Datamatics implemented an on-premise transformation using Microsoft Power BI, SSRS, and a new semantic layer, supported by a manual migration approach and a rationalized report inventory reduced to 5,000+. The result was a 20% reduction in report clutter, faster decision-making through real-time dashboards, and a 15% drop in IT service requests for new reports, while Datamatics delivered a future-ready BI architecture aligned with regional compliance requirements.