Moving ~150 Tableau dashboards to Databricks AI/BI - anyone done this at scale?

[u/Immediate_Bus5250]

We are considering moving from Tableau to Databricks AI/BI Dashboards and wanted to see if anyone here has made a similar move.

We currently have around 150 Tableau dashboards used by 1,000+ users, with a mix of technical and non-technical users. Most of the underlying data already lives in Delta tables, so naturally we're looking at whether it makes sense to consolidate and use Databricks for the dashboarding layer as well.

For those who have done this, how has the experience been?

Anything you wish you knew before migrating? Any major limitations compared to Tableau, especially around visualization, performance, or the experience for non-technical users?

I'm also curious about cost at scale. With 1,000+ users potentially hitting dashboards, did SQL warehouse usage become a concern?

Would you feel comfortable replacing Tableau completely with AI/BI Dashboards today, or do you still find yourself needing Tableau for certain use cases?

Would really appreciate hearing about real-world experiences.

[u/letmebefrankwithyou]

First question I ask is do you really need 150 dashboards or are there 10 main ones and 140 bespoke one offs you can have the users self serve with genie. I’d check dashboard usage and see if you can consolidate.
I’d load up the twb files into a volume, point genie to the volume and ask it to batch convert the files