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Microsoft Fabric: The All-in-One Analytics Platform

Microsoft Fabric brings all the data sources for your organisation together. It allows you to capture, process, and analyse your data all in one platform. Delivering business intelligence to drive better business decisions.

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The Next Generation for Analytics is Here

Microsoft Fabric provides the data insights your business needs to drive profitablility. It integrates, manages and analyses all your data using the highest levels of security and compliance. All in one platform.

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric

Available. Scalable. Manageable.

Fabric transforms your company data into business intelligence to drive better decisions and create competitive advantages.  

It combines data integration, data engineering, data warehousing, data science and real-time analytics into one product. Machine learning and AI to help your teams turn raw data into real value, through a simple and intuitive interface. 

This is the most powerful unified data platform that empowers you to build dashboards and break data silos using best-in-class technology. 

Intelligent Industries

Microsoft Fabric at Work

The clear advantages of Microsoft Fabric can easily be applied across almost every industry to help streamline operations, use data more effectively with faster responses and consolidate services in a centrally governed and secure way. 

  • Retail

    Real-time analytics can be made available for sales trends and inventory management across all locations. Personalised recommendations and elevated customer engagement is made possible through the coordination of multiple data streams from both internal and external sources.

  • Manufacturing & Logistics

    Predictive maintenance is encouraged through connected devices and data streams across the whole business. Supply chain management can be optimised too with integrated third-party data, production systems and workflows. Order tracking, route management and customer alerts & updates are all open for automation and bespoke improvements.

  • Financial Services

    Risk assessment is easily managed and refined through integrated and comprehensive data sources that are available for insights and modelling. The process of sophisticated customer profiling can also be informed with more personalised products created through more reliable and up-to-date data touchpoints.

  • Healthcare

    The future-forward elements of personalised healthcare require so many streams of data from several sources that monitor patients, research and treatment availability. Microsoft Fabric is the ideal platform to store, manage and process the information in an ultra-compliant and secure way.

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The Business Benefits of Microsoft Fabric

Fabric offers the perfect solution for businesses looking to streamline operations, enhance collaboration and unlock deeper insights.

  • Better Data Governance

    All your data is compliant in Fabric.  Integrated tools ensure that everything is secure, discoverable, and correctly classified. This makes data administration and audit requests faster and simpler to respond to. 

  • Resource & Cost Efficient

    Fabric hugely reduces any duplication of data for your infrastructure. This operational efficiency leads to greatly optimised storage and licensing costs across your whole environment.

  • Fully Connected Ecosystem

    Fabric is built for seamless integration with your existing Microsoft business tools and applications. Microsoft 365, Azure, Power BI, Teams and Copilot are all a part of the cohesive Fabric experience in one platform from data collection all the way through to business intelligence.

  • Leveraging AI Capability

    Fabric uses built in tools to encourage your teams to apply innovation through AI and machine learning. New insights are easily generated in a simple and constantly secure way to improve operations and present a competitive edge.

  • Elevated User Experience

    The clean, intuitive and simple interface of Microsoft Fabric allows all roles within your company to work in a unified environment with shared data. It also means that collaboration, sharing and task management is a friction-free process.

  • End-to End Workflows

    The entire data analytics process for your company lives in Microsoft Fabric. a fully governed workflow delivers faster and more secure data processes that can scale simply and efficiently. It covers everything from data collection to dashboard creation.

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Microsoft Platform

OneLake for One Platform

This is where all the data for your workloads are stored so there is no need to move or duplicate data at any point in your operations.

This is the equivalent of OneDrive for Data across your whole IT environment.

It’s the central data storage layer that unifies all structured, unstructured and semi-structured organisational data into one single location 

Importantly, OneLake is automatically provisioned for you as a Fabric client.  

This eliminates the requirement for the resource draining administration and management of multiple storage accounts.  

  • Microsoft Fabric Funding
  • Microsoft Fabric Funding Opportunities

    Microsoft Advanced Analytics Funding

    Microsoft is investing in organisations that want to modernise their data estate and accelerate the insights and business intelligence capability. As a leading Microsoft Partner, BCN has exclusive access to this funding covering both proof of value and deployment support.

    Most customers are eligible for initial Proof of Value funding with larger organisations potentially qualifying for more depending on expected consumption. Additional deployment support is also available, scaled to the scope of migration and expected impact.

    If you’re exploring ways to unlock deeper insights and streamline your data strategy, this is a valuable opportunity.

    Discover how much funding you could access

Understanding Microsoft Fabric

The Workload Breakdown

Microsoft Fabric works in response to seven data focussed workloads that can work both independently and in an integrated way to suit the requirements of your organisation.

 

  • Data Engineering

    Designed for building, developing and maintaining large scale data pipelines and preparations. This supports big data processing without moving between systems and can easily structure unrefined data into trusted data sets for operational use.

  • Data Factory

    This allows data to be collected from anywhere and integrated into the Fabric platform. All with minimal coding or no coding required at all. This makes automation simpler, drives better analytics & reporting and drives AI and machine learning opportunities. 

  • Data Science

    A collaborative environment to build, train and deploy machine learning models and AI developments in your organisation. It can automatically adapt models to existing business processes and lets you innovate to streamline all operations.  

  • Data Warehouse

    This delivers enterprise grade analytics in a rapid and unified way.  

    It provides modern business intelligence using all company data from directly within the Fabric platform.  

  • Real-Time Intelligence

    This allows real time data to be used for instant decision-making. It delivers operational intelligence, intuitive dashboards and instant insights to monitor KPIs as they are happening. 

  • Power BI

    Power BI is fully integrated into Fabric to create interactive dashboards and reports. It can also generate valuable visuals and summaries using AI through Microsoft Copilot.

  • Databases

    This complements all the analytical work carried out on the platform. It makes sure all your organisation’s data is always available, secure and scalable in an instant. 

OUR EXPERTISE

BCN holds six advanced Microsoft designations and multiple specialisations, signifying our expertise in key areas of modern business technology

  • Microsoft Partners
  • Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Specialization
  • Threat Protection -Microsoft Specialist
  • microsoft Analytics specilisation
  • Infra database migration specialist
  • Microsoft Identity and Access Management specialisation
  • Microsoft Partners
  • Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Specialization
  • Threat Protection -Microsoft Specialist
  • microsoft Analytics specilisation
  • Infra database migration specialist
  • Microsoft Identity and Access Management specialisation
  • Microsoft Partners
  • Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Specialization
  • Threat Protection -Microsoft Specialist
  • microsoft Analytics specilisation
  • Infra database migration specialist
  • Microsoft Identity and Access Management specialisation

Why BCN

BCN is a leading Microsoft Partner, with expertise in data and AI and cyber security.

We help businesses build bespoke Microsoft Fabric platforms that enhance data control and simplify management, delivering real-time insights to support faster, smarter decision-making.

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  • 400+

    Expert staff

    Our growing team has industry-recognised accreditations and expertise from our leading in-house academy. We’re always one-step ahead, providing our staff with the latest training and support.

  • 4

    UK based Offices

    Our growing team have industry recognised accreditations and expertise from our leading in-house academy. We’re always one-step ahead, providing our staff with the latest in technical and business operations training and support.

  • 98%

    Client Retention Rate

    We’re proud of this statistic more than anything else. The partnerships we create are built for long term relationships in a crowded managed service space. Our leading services, products and people can make a vital difference for your organisation.

FAQs

Microsoft Fabric FAQ's

There’s a lot to know about Microsoft Fabric, and our experts are happy to talk you through any queries you may have. Here are the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions we receive from clients.

  • Is Microsoft Fabric Secure?

    Yes. Very. Fabric uses best in class Microsoft security technology including Entra ID & Purview. It also provides encryption and role-based access for data protection.

  • How Much Does Microsoft Fabric Cost?

    Microsoft Fabric pricing depends on your organisation’s size, usage, and existing Microsoft licences. As a unified platform combining services like data engineering, warehousing, and AI, it can reduce the need for multiple tools often leading to long-term savings. However, because pricing is usage-based and varies by setup, it’s best to consult a Microsoft partner like BCN for tailored guidance.

  • Is Microsoft Fabric suitable for Non-Tech Users?

    Fabric offers user-friendly tools like drag-and-drop and Copilot, but it still requires technical setup and infrastructure management. Non-tech users can explore data, but ongoing support from data professionals is essential.

  • Do I Need Microsoft Azure Infrastructure to Use Microsoft Fabric?

    No. Fabric is a fully managed Software as a Service platform with no separate set up or infrastructure management. 

  • How Does Microsoft Fabric Help with Compliance?

    Microsoft Purview can be purchased and intergrated within Fabric to apply sensitivity labels, auditing data access and managing industry standard and regulations required for your sector, such as GDPR & HIPAA.

  • Can Microsoft Fabric Replace My Existing Data Warehouse?

    Yes. Data Warehouse within Fabric has enterprise grade SQL performance and full integration with Business Intelligence & AI capability.

  • How Does Microsoft Fabric Handle Data Lineage?

    Microsoft Purview tracks end-to-end data journeys to show where it came from, how it’s been transformed and where the data is being used.

Let’s Talk Fabric

Contact the team today to get started and make Fabric the foundation for all your company data.

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