MicroStrategy to Amazon Quick
MicroStrategy to Amazon Quick migration, planned from the semantic layer up
A MicroStrategy estate's value sits in its semantic layer — the metrics and attributes that every report reuses. Data Foundations reads the report and dossier definitions, inventories what each one uses, triages the estate by complexity and designs a gold-layer model from the metrics and attributes, so the move to Amazon Quick starts from what the business actually relies on.
Why MicroStrategy estates are hard to move
- Metrics are defined once and reused everywhere, often with level (dimensionality) settings and conditional logic that Amazon Quick expresses differently.
- Prompts drive most reports, and each one becomes a parameter or control that has to be redesigned, not copied.
- Dossiers and documents combine many grids and graphs across sheets, so a single object can be a multi-page rebuild.
- The physical warehouse sits behind the semantic layer, so what a report really reads is not visible from the report itself.
- AWS Transform's BI migration, announced in May 2026, covers Power BI and Tableau. MicroStrategy estates need a different route.
What you get
Reports, documents, dossiers, grids and graphs, with their metrics, attributes, prompts and filters listed and each object triaged simple, medium or complex with the reasons given.
Metric formulas that will not translate mechanically are listed with the reason, so the difficult 20% is known before the plan is written.
Metrics become facts and attributes become conformed dimensions: a physical model with DDL for your warehouse, reviewed in the platform's modelling workbench.
Each grid and graph type mapped to its Amazon Quick visual, with the ones that need a redesign called out.
Data readiness, conversion steps, hard items with an approach for each, and reconciliation checks. Generated per report and reviewed by your team.
Estate summary, full inventory, object mapping and hard expressions in one Excel file.
MicroStrategy support today works at inventory and planning level: the platform reads the definitions, triages the estate and designs the model. Automatic Amazon Quick starter packs are available for Qlik apps; for MicroStrategy the output is a conversion plan per report.
What stays with your people
Accelerate, don't decide. Automated conversion is marked as such, and every item that needs judgement is listed rather than dropped.
- Deciding how metric levels and conditional metrics map to the gold model
- Redesigning prompts as parameters and controls
- Mapping the semantic layer to the physical warehouse tables
- Reconciling numbers between MicroStrategy and Amazon Quick, and signing them off
How an engagement starts
- 1Send an export
Report and dossier definitions as XML from Object Manager or Developer, or JSON from the REST API — one folder per report. Definitions only, no data rows.
- 2Estate readout
We run it through the platform and walk you through the inventory, complexity split, hard metrics and the proposed gold model.
- 3Pilot wave
A handful of representative reports end to end to calibrate effort before committing to the rest.
Questions
What export do you need?+
Report and dossier definitions as XML from Object Manager or Developer, or the JSON definitions from the MicroStrategy REST API, zipped with one folder per report.
Do you generate Amazon Quick dashboards for MicroStrategy?+
Not automatically today. For MicroStrategy the platform produces the inventory, the gold-layer model and a conversion plan per report; automatic starter packs are available for Qlik.
Can it see which warehouse tables a report uses?+
Not from the report definition alone — that mapping lives in the MicroStrategy schema objects, which we work through with your team during the readout.
How large an estate can it handle?+
Up to 10,000 reports and 100 MB per upload, ingested in the background. Larger estates go in batches.
Is this an AWS product?+
No. Data Foundations is built by Data Reply UK, part of the Reply group. It targets Amazon Quick and runs alongside your AWS account rather than inside it.
See it on an estate like yours
Thirty minutes: the inventory, the lineage, the gold model and a starter pack, on a sample estate — then what it would take for yours.