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Data Governance in Microsoft Fabric with Purview
“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.” – Tim Berners-Lee Data today powers business decisions, drives customer engagement, and fuels AI innovations. But here’s the catch: without proper data governance, your data can become a liability instead of an asset. If you’re using Microsoft Fabric, you already know it’s…
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Mastering Your Data Management Strategy
“More than 70% of employees have access to data they shouldn’t, and 80% of analysts’ time is wasted just preparing data.” – Harvard Business Review Data is your company’s most valuable asset. Yet, without a structured data management strategy, that asset quickly turns into a liability. Inconsistent, siloed, or unsecured data can lead to poor…
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Real-Time Data Ingestion 101: A Comprehensive Guide
Whether it’s fraud detection in banking, predictive maintenance in manufacturing, or personalized recommendations in e-commerce, real-time data ingestion plays a critical role in making instant, data-driven decisions. This guide explores what real-time data ingestion is, why it matters, when to use it, the different approaches available, and how Microsoft Fabric enables real-time data processing at…
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How to Build an AI-Ready Data Foundation
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has given some businesses the impression that training data is no longer a critical factor. After all, these models come pretrained with vast amounts of knowledge. However, to gain a true competitive edge, companies need AI that understands their specific domain, customers, and internal processes—which means high-quality, proprietary…
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The Data Value Gap: Why Only 32% of Companies Realise Tangible Benefits from Data
Data is often hailed as the new oil, the lifeblood of modern enterprises, and the key to unlocking competitive advantage. Yet, despite businesses collecting more data than ever before, only 32% of organisations report realising tangible and measurable value from it, according to an Accenture study. This statistic reveals a troubling paradox: companies are sitting…
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Automatically Migrating Power BI Premium Capacities to Microsoft Fabric
In early 2024, Microsoft announced the consolidation of purchase options and the retirement of Power BI Premium per capacity SKUs (P-SKUs).Starting February 1, 2025, customers with expiring Enterprise Agreements (EA) or Microsoft Cloud Agreements will no longer be able to add or purchase Power BI Premium capacities through their agreements. As a result, organizations currently…
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How to use AI in Customer Support for Retail
AI is transforming the processes across retail from logistics to Customer Experience. There are plenty of articles covering all these various use cases, an admirable task but I feel there is a shortage of actual discussion around actual actionable strategy for decision makers that want to integrate AI into retail. Today we will do a…
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Data Medallion Architecture with Fabric
Introduction As organizations transition into more data-centric operations, they face growing complexity around integrating, governing, and extracting insights from vast data sets. One proven blueprint for tackling this complexity is data medallion architecture, which organizes data into Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers (often called “medallions”). Now, with the introduction of Microsoft Fabric, enterprises can implement…
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Training AI: A Comprehensive Guide to RAG Implementations
Introduction Imagine asking a question and getting an answer that feels like it came from an expert who just did their homework—scouring the latest research, diving into relevant documents, and then crafting the perfect response. That’s the power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). At its core, RAG combines the best of two worlds: the creativity and…
