Kanerika is a privately held data and AI consulting firm founded in 2015 by Samidha Garud, its CEO, and Bhupendra Chopra, its chief revenue officer. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and now operates six offices across the United States, India and Singapore. LinkedIn places it in the 201–500 employee category, with approximately 350 employees listed. Kanerika company history, LinkedIn profile
It specializes in helping large companies replace older data and analytics systems with modern cloud platforms. Its work covers:
- Data migration and modernization
- Data engineering, integration and governance
- Business intelligence and analytics
- Automation, machine learning and agentic AI
- Staff training and post-deployment support
It is closely aligned with Microsoft, as a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data and AI and a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, working across Fabric, Azure, Power BI, Purview and Copilot. It also partners with Databricks and Snowflake and has solutions listed through Microsoft Marketplace. The company has also developed FLIP, an agentic migration platform designed to automate parts of the process of of moving companies away from tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Informatica and Oracle.
Kanerika migrated the manufacturer’s legacy Alteryx workflows and Tableau dashboards to a fully governed Microsoft Fabric and Power BI environment. The engagement consolidated analytics on a single platform, established a medallion data architecture and supported enterprise-wide adoption, accelerating time to value while significantly reducing costs.
Key Results
$1M+
Annual license savings from retiring legacy tools
$100K+
Microsoft funding secured to support the migration
1 unified platform
For governed, enterprise-wide analytics
3 medallion layers
Bronze, Silver and Gold
A medallion architecture is a system for refining data through three progressively cleaner layers. It’s a data-design pattern named after bronze, silver and gold medals.
| Layer | What it contains | Motorcycle-company example |
| Bronze | Raw data preserved exactly as received | Original factory sensor readings, sales files, inventory records and warranty claims |
| Silver | Cleaned, standardized and validated data | Duplicate records removed; dates, VINs, model names and dealer codes standardized |
| Gold | Business-ready data organized for a specific purpose | Sales by model, warranty rates, production efficiency and other Power BI metrics |
In this project, Fabric pipelines, Dataflows and notebooks now move the data from Bronze through Silver to Gold. Power BI primarily consumes the trusted Gold layer. The advantage is that the company always retains the untouched Bronze data. If a cleaning rule is wrong or reporting requirements change, engineers can rebuild the Silver and Gold layers without having to return to every original system.
The simplest translation is:
Bronze = what arrived
Silver = what has been cleaned
Gold = what the business can confidently use
Microsoft Fabric documentation
Client at a Glance
Industry: Manufacturing
Legacy environment: Alteryx and Tableau
Modernized environment: Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
Delivery model: Embedded agile delivery
What Was Delivered
Modern Data Platform Deployment
Kanerika provisioned a complete Microsoft Fabric environment aligned with the client’s enterprise governance, security and compliance standards.The medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver and Gold) was implemented to support reliable data ingestion, standardized transformation and trusted analytics outputs.
Legacy Alteryx workflows and Tableau dashboards were rebuilt using Fabric pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Lakehouse notebooks, Power BI semantic models and Direct Lake.
User Adoption and Change Management
To support a smooth transition, Kanerika developed a practical training and enablement program for business users.
Training
- Two one-hour webinars covering beginner-to-intermediate Microsoft Fabric and Power BI concepts
- Role-specific user guides for onboarding and continued learning
Learning repository
- A centralized Microsoft Teams hub containing on-demand webinar recordings
- Best-practice guides and quick-reference materials covering Fabric, Power BI and data governance
Ongoing coaching
- Continued support to help business users transition confidently from Tableau and Alteryx to Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
Embedded Agile Delivery
Kanerika embedded architects, engineers and analysts directly within the client’s team and operated through a fully agile delivery model.
Paired development, iterative validation and continuous knowledge transfer gave the client’s teams hands-on experience throughout the migration. Sprint-based delivery reduced implementation risk, increased transparency and accelerated platform adoption.
Quantifiable Business Impact
Retiring Alteryx and Tableau consolidated the manufacturer’s analytics operations on a single governed platform, generating more than $1 million in annual license savings.
Kanerika also secured more than $100,000 in Microsoft funding to support the migration, further reducing the cost of modernization.
Beyond the immediate financial gains, the new environment reduced tooling complexity, improved data reliability and established a scalable foundation for future analytics development.
Outcome
The client now operates on a unified analytics foundation powered by Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Business teams benefit from faster access to insights, simplified workflows and a modern business-intelligence experience built on governed data and Direct Lake.
