PowerSwitch

Small organizations facing higher per-user BI costs may want a simpler self-hosted analytics stack, but reports combine source queries, proprietary measure languages, filters, security, refresh schedules and presentation logic. PowerSwitch inventories the estate, selects a business-owned migration scope, translates supported queries, rewrites unsupported measures with human review, recreates dashboards and runs source and destination in parallel. The supplied research confirms a 40% price increase for a common BI seat, low-cost open alternatives and no packaged cutover product. It also supplies a critical technical correction: DAX is not a SQL dialect and the confirmed transpiler does not support it; generated DAX-to-SQL rewrites are manual-review candidates, not mechanical conversions. Zero APIs are verified. A one-week universal cutover is unsupported. Inventory, translation, measure review, fixture result, business-owner acceptance, parallel run, cutover approval, destination readback, rollback, decommission and realized savings remain separate. Finance approves the baseline including infrastructure, migration, labor and support; projected savings never become realized savings or automatic pricing. Success is a supportable, reversible migration—not identical pixels, automatic semantic equivalence or guaranteed cost recovery.

An SMB finance, operations or data leader with a bounded BI estate, rising seat costs and willingness to operate or procure a portable replacement.