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Category: Blog
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Setting Up Data Governance For Your Enterprise the Right Way
Ironically in the age of AI the value of data increases even more than the big data era. Effective data governance ensures that data is understood, trusted, secure, and usable across the business. It defines how data should be managed, who is responsible for it, and how it supports both innovation and compliance. And when…
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How to Prevent Fabric Cost Spikes and Optimise TCO
As organisations move more workloads to Microsoft Fabric, predictable cost becomes a governance problem as much as an engineering one. Fabric’s unified capacity model (Capacity Units / CUs, purchased as F-SKUs) is powerful — it lets many teams share a single compute fabric — but that same unification concentrates risk: a single pattern or behaviour…
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Monitoring and Managing Fabric Capacity with the Metrics App
Introduction Managing capacity in Microsoft Fabric goes beyond provisioning the right SKU — it’s about understanding how that capacity behaves under real workloads. Fabric’s Capacity Metrics App is designed for exactly that: to give administrators and platform owners visibility into compute consumption, workload behavior, and system health across every experience running under a shared capacity.…
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Introduction to Fabric Capacity Management
As Microsoft Fabric matures into a production-grade analytics platform, the concept of capacity becomes central to how organizations plan, operate, and pay for their data ecosystem. Capacity management in Fabric isn’t simply about compute limits — it’s about ensuring reliability, predictability, and cost control across every workload running under a shared engine. From lakehouse jobs…
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Fabric Mirroring: The Fine Print That Derails Pilots
The promise of zero-ETL is tantalizing: connect your live systems to Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake, and downstream analytics and models just see fresh data without you having to build and maintain tedious pipelines. In early proofs of concept, that idea often works well. But when teams scale toward full pilots or production, hidden limits and schema…
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Zero-ETL in Practice: Fabric Mirroring patterns that cut pipeline toil by 60%
“Zero-ETL” isn’t a promise that transformation disappears; it’s a shift in where the heavy lifting happens. Instead of building and babysitting brittle copy jobs, the platform continuously reflects source changes into your analytics lake—so teams spend more time modeling for the business and less time fighting pipelines. What Mirroring actually is (and isn’t) Microsoft Fabric…
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How Medallion Architecture Prepares Your Data for AI Workflows
Most AI initiatives don’t stall on models—they stall on data. The gap isn’t “which LLM?” or “which AutoML?” so much as “can the organization deliver trustworthy, governed, and semantically consistent data to those systems at the right cost and latency?” A Medallion Architecture answers that question by turning the lake/lakehouse into an operating model for…
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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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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…