Reddit startup idea
BI Deprecation Risk Scanner
A SaaS that continuously scans a tenant’s Power BI metadata (datasets, gateways, Scorecards) and matches it against a maintained deprecation/compatibility ruleset to flag imminent break risks. It creates an actionable migration backlog (who owns it, what to change, by when) and pushes alerts to Teams/Jira/ServiceNow before refresh failures or feature removals hit production.
- Subreddit: powerbi
- Industry: Data Science & Analytics
- Target date: 2026-03-21
- Upvotes: 88
- Comments: 10
Suggested product
BI Deprecation Risk Scanner
A SaaS that continuously scans a tenant’s Power BI metadata (datasets, gateways, Scorecards) and matches it against a maintained deprecation/compatibility ruleset to flag imminent break risks. It creates an actionable migration backlog (who owns it, what to change, by when) and pushes alerts to Teams/Jira/ServiceNow before refresh failures or feature removals hit production.
Target customer
Organizations running Power BI at scale (SMB to mid-market and enterprise) with BI admins, analytics engineering teams, and IT ops responsible for uptime of refreshes and KPI reporting.
Problem-solution fit
Customers need proactive detection because the highest-risk breakages are silent (e.g., legacy Service uploads) and are hard to identify via manual spot checks across many workspaces. This product automates discovery, prioritization by deadline/impact, and owner routing so teams can remediate before business users see stale metrics.
Keywords
- Power BI
- deprecation monitoring
- dataset lineage
- gateway drivers
- change management