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Microsoft Fabric and data strategy — in plain English
Practical guides for UK SME leaders navigating Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, AI readiness, and data strategy. No jargon, no enterprise assumptions.
Three Days. Blank Page to Architecture.
What happens when a data consultancy actually tests what it's selling. Three days of deliberate R&D produced a fully specified, metadata-driven Microsoft Fabric architecture — and some honest observations about what AI tooling actually does and doesn't do.
You've bought Microsoft Fabric. Why isn't it delivering?
Most SMEs using Microsoft Fabric are only scratching the surface — treating it as a slightly better Power BI. Here's why that happens, and what proper implementation actually looks like.
Why SMEs only keep 8% of the value their data projects create — and how to fix it
A technically successful Fabric implementation generated £250,000 in efficiency gains. The SME kept £20,000 of it. This is how the consulting value chain is structured — and why Data Partners is built differently.
IoT data and Microsoft Fabric: how to connect them — a practical guide for UK SMEs
IoT devices generate enormous volumes of data. Microsoft Fabric can ingest, process, and surface that data in real time. Here's how they fit together — and what it takes to make it work in practice.
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