Compare the Market found 179 abandoned Power BI reports and cut report delivery from 6 weeks to under 1

The items collected for Power BI in October 2026 describe no product release. The month's coverage was one news story, one partner video, and a run of community threads about migrating, running and replacing Power BI reports.

The most concrete account came from Compare the Market. The company cut report delivery time from 6 weeks to under 1 by retiring most of its dashboards. Its audit found 179 abandoned Power BI reports. It then rebuilt its analytics around reusable dbt models, so new reports draw on shared logic instead of being built from scratch [3].

Migration was the main community topic. One post described lessons from a Power BI to Databricks migration, with the order given as metric views first and Genie second [2]. Others asked what the real dealbreakers were when choosing between Databricks BI and Power BI [7], and discussed a migration shortcut from Power BI to AI/BI [8]. A related thread asked about building web apps for fully flexible analytics and reporting [1], and another covered a data app with dashboard and agentic capabilities in Databricks [11].

Operational questions came up for teams that kept Power BI in place. Practitioners raised an import gateway strategy [4], latency between Databricks and Power BI [6], and a report whose refresh had been disabled [12]. The titles do not say how any of these were resolved.

On data sharing, an October video covered the Databricks and SAP partnership. It showed SAP data products shared into Databricks with Delta Sharing and Business Data Cloud, and a supply chain use case in which agents automate predictive maintenance and procurement actions [10]. A community post also weighed open Delta Sharing against Databricks-to-Databricks sharing as a replacement for external ETL [9].