Evaluate & Prepare For Microsoft Fabric with Ascent

Microsoft Fabric is a transformative platform that unifies and simplifies traditional data tools, ways of workings, standards and integrations into one cohesive, opinionated SaaS solution. It offers end-to-end capabilities, from data ingestion and pipelining to structuring, modelling, advanced analytics, data science and AI across both real-time and batch processing. But how should you implement this technology within your ecosystem: replace, compliment, co-exist?

Ascent's readiness assessment offers a comprehensive evaluation of your data lifecycle, covering every stage from platform design to deployment and configuration. It addresses both streaming and batch-driven data orchestration and engineering, as well as enterprise and self-service analytics, data science, and AI/ML workloads. This helps you understand the operational, technical, and commercial efforts required to implement Microsoft Fabric and develop new business and technical capabilities.

Our specialists guide you through Microsoft Fabric’s core capabilities, helping you identify which features to adopt immediately, which to plan for in the future, and which may be lower priority for your organization. The assessment delivers a detailed gap analysis comparing your current data system to your target state with Microsoft Fabric. It also provides a roadmap for successful adoption or migration, including recommendations for a target operating model, cost estimates for implementation and operations, and projected ROI.

Whether you’re starting out on your data journey, migrating or extending legacy platforms, or looking to leverage specific Microsoft Fabric features, Ascent helps you understand and quantify the opportunity that Microsoft Fabric can unlock for your business.

Service Features:

• Current State Review: Consolidate the knowledge of your core systems and data landscape, including their connectivity, purpose and importance into a single repository. This helps reduce technical debt and aligns technologies across teams and departments.
• Recommended Platform Design: Benefit from the expertise of a leading Microsoft partner for Data & AI to understand the optimal architecture for a Microsoft Fabric implementation, ensuring your platform is designed for success.
• Fabric Components Overview: Map Microsoft Fabric’s core components relative to your business requirements, in terms accessible to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Migration, Implementation & Adoption Plan: Develop a clear roadmap to your minimum viable product (MVP) and beyond, outlining the necessary resources and typical timelines to achieve your goals.
• Target Operating Model: Plan for long term success by focussing on management, governance, security and monitoring beyond the go-live date.
• Commercial Appraisal: Understand the upfront financial commitment, ongoing operational costs and ROI of Microsoft Fabric.

Business Benefits:

• Avoid Common Pitfalls: Leverage Ascent’s expertise to minimize risk and errors, avoiding costly rework
• Smooth the Adoption Curve: Build a complete picture of your data capabilities and environment to prepare for change
• Plan & Budget Effectively: Understand the scale of investment required, along with expected timescales
• Align with Best Practices: Reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence and performance efficiency.