Case Study: OMERS, a Canadian pension plan, builds a cloud data platform in 20% of the typical time and unlocks self‑service analytics with Microsoft Power BI

OMERS - Customer Case Study

OMERS, a Canadian defined‑benefit pension plan with over half a million members, needed a unified way to combine data from multiple apps and deliver near‑real‑time insights to finance and business units. To meet that challenge OMERS engaged a Fusion Team and adopted Microsoft Power BI alongside Microsoft Azure and Azure Synapse Analytics to implement a finance data strategy and reduce manual analysis.

The Fusion Team built an integrated cloud data and analytics platform using Microsoft Power BI and Azure services, delivering the solution in 20% of the typical time frame. The new platform unlocked near‑real‑time visibility, produced more than 20 new data products, and identified new cost‑saving opportunities, materially improving OMERS’ analytics speed and decision‑making.

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Mohammad Mirza

Director of Enterprise Data, Software, and Integrations Engineering