Industry : Global E-commerce and Retail
Duration : Approximately 10 Months
Users Impacted : 2,000+
Reports Delivered : 110
A global e-commerce enterprise initiated a company-wide strategic program to reduce dependency on Oracle-based systems by migrating its existing OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) analytics environment to AWS QuickSight.
The transformation aimed to streamline reporting infrastructure, improve data accessibility, and reduce operational overheads across the Finance and Global Business Services (FGBS) units.
DataTerrain was selected as the trusted partner to execute this large-scale modernization project — leveraging automation, cloud expertise, and domain-driven BI experience to ensure a seamless transition for more than 2,000 business users.
The client’s reporting landscape was heavily dependent on OBIEE, with hundreds of complex reports built over time. Maintaining these reports in Oracle environments led to high licensing costs, limited scalability, and slower performance.
The organization needed a cost-efficient, cloud-native analytics solution capable of:
DataTerrain implemented a structured end-to-end OBIEE to QuickSight migration framework, leveraging its proprietary automated conversion tool to accelerate report transformation and validation.
Project Highlights
| Parameter | Details |
|---|---|
| Source System | OBIEE (Finance & Global Business Services) |
| Target System | AWS QuickSight |
| Database | Oracle |
| Conversion Environment | QuickSight Analysis Editor |
| Automation Engine | DataTerrain Automated Conversion Tool |
Using the DataTerrain Automation Engine, the team converted OBIEE reports, metadata, and dashboards into QuickSight-compatible analysis templates with precision and consistency.
This approach reduced manual rework and ensured feature-level compatibility for key components such as filters, prompts, and visualization logic.
Following migration, users requested advanced customization to improve usability and interactivity.
Key updates included:
Every migrated report underwent rigorous validation to ensure:
This robust QA framework ensured confidence in the migrated environment before user rollout.
The migration to AWS QuickSight delivered immediate and measurable outcomes:
The transformation empowered the client’s finance and operations teams with faster, cloud-native analytics while laying a solid foundation for future data-driven initiatives.
Following the successful migration, the client is expanding its AWS QuickSight adoption to additional business functions, aiming for a unified analytics experience across the enterprise.
DataTerrain continues to provide ongoing optimization and user enablement support, ensuring that the organization fully leverages the agility and power of AWS cloud analytics.
DataTerrain is a leading provider of data migration, business intelligence modernization, and analytics automation solutions.
With proven expertise in OBIEE to QuickSight, Oracle to Snowflake, and Power BI transformations, DataTerrain helps global enterprises accelerate their journey to cloud-based analytics with precision, speed, and reliability.
Transform your legacy BI systems into modern, cloud-ready analytics with DataTerrain — your trusted migration partner.