The Modern Data Estate with Microsoft fabric
Built for Intelligence,
Governed for Trust.
Transition from fragmented legacy systems to a unified, AI-ready architecture. Leveraging Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, we build sovereign data estates that meet the highest standards of board-level strategy and global compliance.
Strategic Center of Excellence For





The Modern Data Estate For ENterprise
Bridging the Gap From
Legacy Silos to Agentic AI.
We deliver a comprehensive data framework designed specifically for the unique regulatory and operational needs of the public sector.
Unified Architecture
Sovereign & Compliant
Scalable & AI-Ready

OneLake: The End of Data Silos
We eliminate the complexity of “Data Sprawl” by implementing Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake. This provides a single, unified environment for all your data—whether it resides in SQL, NoSQL, or legacy on-premise systems—without the need for costly duplication.
Integrated Intelligence: By leveraging Azure Databricks for high-performance engineering and Fabric for seamless business integration, we create a “Zero-Copy” environment where data is accessible, synchronized, and ready for real-time analytics.
The Outcome: A streamlined technical stack that reduces maintenance costs and provides a single source of truth for the entire enterprise.

Rigour for Regulated Industries
For organizations in Health, Finance, and Government, data residency is non-negotiable. Our architecture is built with Data Sovereignty at its core. We ensure your data estate complies with ISO 27001, GDPR, and local jurisdictional requirements.
Automated Governance: We deploy Microsoft Purview to automate data classification, lineage tracking, and sensitivity labeling. This ensures that your most sensitive assets are protected by “Least-Privilege” access and are fully auditable at the board level.
The Outcome: A “Secure-by-Design” estate that mitigates risk and provides leadership with total confidence in their data’s integrity.

Future-Proofing For the AI Era
You cannot have AI without a modern data foundation. We prepare your estate for the next generation of “Agentic AI” by ensuring your data is cleansed, structured, and ethically governed.
Elastic Performance: Using Fabric’s capacity-based model, we build an infrastructure that scales with your business. Whether you are running complex ML models or high-volume reporting, the estate scales to meet demand and hibernates to save costs during lulls.
The Outcome: A resilient, modular foundation that allows you to deploy AI agents and predictive models with speed and safety.
Accelerated Decision Intelligence
Reduce the time-to-insight from weeks to seconds with real-time data streaming and automated Power BI reporting.
Risk Mitigation
Ensure 100% compliance with global regulations and provide transparent data lineage for audit purposes.
Seamless AI Adoption
Establish the “Data Hygiene” necessary to fuel private, secure AI assistants that don’t hallucinate or leak sensitive info.
Customer Stories
Making real life impact with data driven solutions
Capabilities
Data Engineering Excellence
Fabric Expertise
Medallion Data Design
FinOps & Capacity Management
Engineering the Next Generation of Data Analytics
We specialize in the end-to-end implementation of Microsoft Fabric, the industry’s first truly unified analytics platform. Our expertise lies in moving organizations away from fragmented “PaaS” services into a cohesive, SaaS-based data experience. We architect environments where Data Engineering, Data Science, and Real-Time Intelligence live in a single, governed workspace.
Core Focus Areas:
- OneLake Architecture: Implementing a single, unified “OneDrive for data” that eliminates silos and provides a zero-copy environment for the entire enterprise.
- Direct Lake Integration: Optimizing the connection between your data and Power BI, bypassing traditional “Import” or “DirectQuery” modes for sub-second performance on massive datasets.
- Real-Time Intelligence: Setting up Eventstreams and KQL databases to capture and analyze data in motion, enabling instant response to operational triggers.
The Blueprint for High-Fidelity Data
We use the Medallion Architecture to ensure data quality and trust at every stage of the lifecycle. This multi-layered approach prevents the “Data Swamp” by applying rigorous transformation, validation, and governance as data moves from raw ingestion to business-ready insights.
The Layers of Trust:
- Bronze (The Raw Zone): We capture data in its native format, maintaining a full history and high-fidelity “landing zone” for all upstream sources.
- Silver (The Validated Zone): This is where engineering excellence happens. We apply schema enforcement, de-duplication, and business logic to transform raw data into a clean, queryable state.
- Gold (The Curated Zone): The final layer designed for consumption. We build high-performance “Star Schemas” and semantic models that are optimized for AI grounding and executive reporting.
Surgical Precision in Cloud Economics
In the world of Microsoft Fabric, “Capacity” is the currency of performance. We prevent “bill shock” by implementing advanced FinOps frameworks that monitor and optimize your compute utilization in real-time. We move you away from “always-on” costs toward a high-efficiency, demand-based model.
Optimization Strategies:
- Capacity Smoothing & Bursting: We architect workflows that leverage Fabric’s ability to handle “burst” workloads without requiring a permanent (and expensive) scale-up of your base capacity.
- Automated Scaling & Pausing: We deploy proprietary scripts to automate the pausing of capacities during idle periods and scaling up during high-demand processing windows.
- Utilization Auditing: We provide custom dashboards that track “CU” (Capacity Unit) consumption by department, ensuring that every dollar spent is mapped back to a specific business outcome.
Insights
Insights on Data, AI, and the future of data driven organisations.
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