We’re proud to announce we’ve been awarded Fabric Featured Partner status, further strengthening our relationship with Microsoft and elevating us as a key data partner. It’s an achievement that reflects our own expertise with the platform, and the transformative projects we’ve delivered for our customers using Microsoft Fabric, especially as a springboard for AI deployments.
This recognition builds on our existing data and AI specialisations, and our certification with Analytics on Microsoft Azure – all factors that help us ensure our customers get the absolute most from the valuable data powering their business.
Deriving deeper insights that make an impact
Becoming a Fabric Featured Partner is a reflection of the continued investment we’ve made to evolve our data practice, with Fabric’s AI-enabled data platform sitting at the heart of countless customer projects we’ve delivered in recent months
Through OneLake, Microsoft Fabric’s unified data lake, organisations can establish a central pool of data as a single point of truth, with real-time updates ensuring accurate information is available to support powerful analytics and business intelligence workflows.
Our Fabric expertise allows us to build bespoke flows for data analysis that utilise Microsoft Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to allow customers seamless access to real-time data and intuitive dashboards offering insights to inform key decisions.
What becoming a Fabric Featured Partner means for us
As a Fabric Featured Partner, we join an exclusive group of Microsoft partners who are showcased as experts in data projects and Fabric deployments. It’s a privileged position, and to earn that status Microsoft must first ensure that any partner is delivering Fabric projects in line with its own best practice methodologies.
As part of our qualification for Featured Partner status, Microsoft validated a selection of completed Fabric-based projects we delivered to customers, which included a deployment with sensitive personal data within the tightly-regulated finance sector.
The award of this new partner status is a stamp of approval on our knowledge, expertise and competency with Fabric, and reflects Microsoft’s confidence in us to deliver these projects.
Fabric Featured Partners must also demonstrate the required level of technical and product knowledge, and a number of team members have now completed Microsoft’s DP-600 and DP-700 courses to verify their Fabric skills, further extending our ability to build, deploy, and manage bespoke solutions to meet a variety of needs.
What becoming a Fabric Featured Partner means for our customers
Now, as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, we’re even better positioned to help our customers refine their data strategy, deploying tools and integrations that power intelligent analysis and faster decision making.
With members of our team now installed as members of Microsoft’s Partner Voice programme, we’re afforded a unique vantage point on new features, product updates and private previews – insights we can bring to you to help advance your own strategy.
But it’s not only early insights that can prove beneficial. As well as visibility of the Fabric roadmap, we have an opportunity to inform how this develops – meaning we can take your thoughts, challenges and ideas directly to Microsoft to help shape the evolution of Fabric over time.
We’re also now able to offer a number of Microsoft-funded data related engagements, providing faster access to the value of Fabric, and the transformative impact of a revised data strategy, without the expected upfront investment.
The next steps
Our ongoing development of our data capabilities reflects the growing importance of data strategy as a bedrock for AI deployment. The quality of output for AI models hinges on the data they draw from, aligning AI success to sound data strategy.
We’re big advocates for the importance of ensuring data hygiene as a foundation for AI deployment, and often talk about the need to build AI in the same environments where work and data already live.
As AI continues to position itself as a top priority for our customers, our data practice is essential for adoption success, and our recognition as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner is a testament to the value we bring in this field.
Refining your data strategy is the first step to allow your organisation to harness the full value of modern data platforms. Our free Data and Analytics Strategy Accelerator reviews your current strategy to define a clear roadmap for improvement, while our Fabric Readiness Assessment provides a deep engagement that ensures you have the groundwork in place ahead of a potential Fabric deployment.
We also have a robust portfolio of other data offerings on the Microsoft Marketplace to support your data strategy, including:
- Microsoft Fabric FastStart Implementation – a rapid deployment of Fabric for your organisation in just 20 days.
- Microsoft Fabric Custom Build – fully-customised development of a Fabric environment tailored to the needs of your business.
- Power BI Concept In a Week – a proof-of-concept that proves the potential value of Power BI on a compressed timeframe.
- Power BI Implementation (Co-Build) – a bespoke Power BI build to address a particular organisational need, including upskilling your internal teams.
- Power BI Kickstart Training – hands-on training that trains your team on how to build Power BI reports, dashboards, and models.
- Data Maturity Assessment and Strategy – a full review of your data maturity, based on Microsoft best practices, and outlining pathways to improvement.
And, if you’d like to find out more about Microsoft Fabric watch our recent Microsoft Fabric webinar on demand here.
