Case Study: Leading Retail Company achieves scalable, secure Azure Power BI reporting with DatAvail

Retail Merchandising Partner Improves Reporting with Azure Cloud

Leading Retail Company, a U.S. and Canada retail merchandising, warehousing and distribution provider, faced an outdated on‑premises SQL Server OLTP architecture that caused poor performance, security gaps, and fragmented Power BI/Excel reporting — and wanted no new on‑premises capital investments. DatAvail was engaged to modernize the environment and recommended moving analytics to Azure and consolidating reporting.

DatAvail implemented quick wins (proper data types, partitioning, indexing, deadlock fixes, security reviews) and migrated reporting to Power BI in Azure using Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake Storage (with Azure Synapse for analytics). The result was a single source of truth for reporting, major improvements in scalability and performance, ongoing analytics optimization, full Azure/Power BI support, and reduced software license costs with zero capex.