Maximize your data potential—We're Microsoft Fabric Partners!
At Nearsure, we are proud to be your trusted partner in leveraging Microsoft Fabric to its fullest potential.
We excel in helping clients adopt, implement, migrate, and optimize Microsoft Fabric. Our specialists ensure smooth integration of all your data sources to fuel data-driven decision-making across your organization.
Delivering excellence to our clients
Our Microsoft Fabric services
At Nearsure, we have a team of Data & AI specialists dedicated to delivering tailored solutions that address your challenges with the highest quality and security standards.
Microsoft Fabric is the unified enterprise data platform that seamlessly integrates data lakes, data integration, real-time data, big data, and business intelligence. Such a powerful tool can be challenging to adopt, and that’s where Nearsure comes in.
We’ve been active Fabric users for over two years, so we know firsthand how you can take advantage of the platform’s business intelligence solutions and AI applications.
Our AI studio, powered by data engineers, data scientists and ML engineers, can help you boost your project from descriptive and diagnostic to predictive and prescriptive stages. We’ll help you understand the present challenges, predict the next outcomes, and define actions to get specific results.
If you are looking to maximize your investment value in Microsoft Fabric, we’re the player you need on your team.
Microsoft Fabric consulting services
Our experts provide tailored strategy, architecture and best practices to help you leverage Microsoft Fabric efficiently. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing existing deployments, we ensure seamless integration with your IT ecosystem.
We can provide strategic guidance throughout your entire Fabric journey.
Proof-of-Concept (POC) development
We build tailored POCs to demonstrate the value and feasibility of Microsoft Fabric for your use cases before full-scale implementation.
Needs assessment and roadmap development
We analyze your current data infrastructure and technology stack, along with your key business objectives and analytical requirements, to create a customized Fabric implementation roadmap.
Architecture design and planning
Our expert team designs a robust and scalable architecture that aligns with your long-term data strategy and seamlessly integrates with your existing systems.
Data governance and security strategy
We help you establish best practices for data governance, security, and compliance within the Fabric environment to protect your valuable assets.
Cost optimization and resource planning
We assist you in forecasting and managing your Fabric costs, ensuring efficient resource utilization and maximizing your ROI.
Microsoft Fabric adoption services
Accelerate your Microsoft Fabric adoption with our structured approach. We assist your teams through training, governance, and practical hands-on implementation to ensure business value from day one.
Data integration and engineering
We connect your disparate data sources (on-premises, cloud, SaaS) to Fabric, creating a unified data foundation in your Fabric OneLake. This includes data cleansing, transformation, pipeline, warehousing, and semantic model creation.
Workspace and capacity management
We help you organize and manage your Fabric workspaces and capacities, ensuring efficient resource allocation.
User training and enablement
We provide training programs for your team, empowering them to effectively use Fabric’s tools and capabilities. This includes training on Power BI.
Best practices implementation
We guide you on implementing industry best practices for using Fabric to maximize its features and ensure long-term success.
Microsoft Fabric migration services
Transition smoothly from legacy systems and data solutions to Microsoft Fabric. Our end-to-end migration team ensures data and semantic improvement, as well as modeling and performance optimization. Data engineers and data analysts work to migrate and significantly improve your existing legacy reports.
Microsoft Fabric implementation
We turn strategy into reality with our Microsoft Fabric implementation. From setup and configuration to data modeling and reports, we manage the entire deployment. Our team ensures a smooth rollout aligned with your business goals for a high-performing data ecosystem.
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Is Microsoft Fabric the right solution for your business?
Challenges you might face
Why choose our company for Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is a game-changer and selecting the right partner to help you leverage its full capabilities is crucial. You not only require consultants but also seasoned architects, adept problem-solvers, and forward-thinkers. This is where our expertise becomes invaluable.
Here are the reasons why we are the optimal choice for your Fabric journey:
We're Fabric pioneers,
not followers
Two years ago, our company had to integrate three specialized firms, and we'd been living and breathing Fabric for months before it became generally available to the public.
We're not just talking about theoretical knowledge; we use Fabric internally to power our own business. We've built our data lakehouse on Fabric, integrating financial and operational data. We are even performing our financial and allocations forecasting using Fabric, so we understand the challenges and triumphs firsthand.
Why is this important?
You get real-world expertise, not just textbook knowledge. We've already navigated the learning curve, identified best practices, and developed proven strategies. We anticipate potential roadblocks before they can even turn into problems.
A dream team of data experts at your service
We're not just generalists; we're a powerhouse of specialists.
Our team is composed of:
Data engineers
Data scientists
ML engineers
We are also Power BI and Power Platform experts, who’ve been working with these technologies from the very beginning.
Why is this important?
Fabric is a comprehensive platform, and a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work. You need a team with diverse skill sets to handle every aspect, from data ingestion and transformation (Data Factory, Synapse) to advanced analytics and AI. Having worked with Power BI and Power Platform from the start means we provide seamless integration and powerful visualization capabilities.
AI-powered insights,
built in-house
We're not just helping you use Fabric; we're expanding its power. We've developed our own internal AI solutions, including intelligent search capabilities, that run over data from our Fabric implementation. This means we have a unique understanding of how to integrate AI seamlessly into your Fabric environment.
Why is this important?
You gain access to cutting-edge AI expertise and proven solutions. We can help you leverage AI to automate tasks, enhance decision-making, and unlock even deeper insights from your data. This goes beyond basic Fabric functionality and offers a significant competitive advantage.
We offer the complete Fabric solution
We're not just about the technical bits and pieces. We offer a holistic approach,
guiding you through every stage of your Fabric journey:
From application to insight
We can help you design and build the applications that generate your data, ensuring data quality and consistency from the source.
Data ingestion and transformation
We'll build robust pipelines using tools like Azure Data Factory and Synapse to bring your data into Fabric efficiently and reliably.
Data warehousing and lakehouse architecture
We'll design a data storage strategy that meets your specific needs, leveraging Fabric's powerful capabilities.
Data analytics and visualization
We'll help you create insightful dashboards and reports using Power BI, tightly integrated with Fabric, to turn data into actionable stories.
Machine learning and AI integration
We'll develop and deploy custom AI solutions to drive innovation and automation.
Ongoing support and optimization
We're your long-term partner, ensuring your Fabric environment continues to perform at its best.
Why is this important?
You don't have to juggle multiple vendors or struggle with fragmented solutions. We provide a single point of contact for all your Fabric needs, ensuring a smooth, efficient, and cost-effective implementation. We understand the entire data lifecycle, not just one piece of it.
Nearsure in Numbers
Success stories
Leveraging Microsoft Fabric for seamless integration
How Microsoft Fabric helped us
Data cleansing and quality assurance became essential components of this ambitious project. We understood that effective data analysis was crucial for taking actionable steps towards growth. After thoroughly evaluating various options and their pros and cons, the choice was clear: Microsoft Fabric was the best option.
This flexible and scalable SaaS solution seamlessly integrates with multiple data sources and handles large data volumes with ease.
Results
Within a mere six months, we successfully connected and unified various systems, which resulted in a singular, comprehensive view of customers, consultants, projects and processes.
The impact was profound, particularly in the Financial, Recruiting and Operations departments, where data quality and timeliness saw significant improvements. This, in turn, enhanced decision-making capabilities and refined key performance indicators (KPIs), driving Nearsure's strategic growth forward.
The success of this integration project is a testament to Nearsure's commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology to meet development goals.
Context
Almost two years ago, Nearsure embarked on a transformative journey by integrating three distinct companies into its operations. Each of these entities had its own management systems and data repositories, posing a significant challenge to achieving a unified vision.
Main challenge
- Unifying a diverse data landscape for a cohesive and comprehensive view of Nearsure's customer base and business activities.
“To meet our aggressive growth ambitions, we need to leverage the power of our data. Our new data solution on Microsoft Fabric lets us make the decisions to succeed.”
Nearsure
Context
Nearsure’s capacity team plays a pivotal role in sourcing and onboarding top-tier talent for both internal operations and client projects. Traditional manual processes, which often require days to deliver viable candidates, proved both time-intensive and inadequate for addressing complex client requirements.
Main challenges
- Accelerate candidate discovery: Identify the best candidates quickly and accurately while navigating our growing database.
- Enhance match quality: Analyze complex job descriptions and match them to candidates from an expansive database of 150,000 profiles, which grows by 3,000+ on average every month.
- Improve productivity: Empower recruiters to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.
Key results
In-House talent AI agent
We built an in-house AI agent for our capacity team that uses Microsoft Fabric’s data lake to reduce delivery time for first-time viable candidates by up to 50%.
Solution
We developed an AI agent integrated into our internal system. This AI agent uses natural language processing (NLP) to analyze job descriptions, extract key requirements, and query our database. Through a sophisticated ranking heuristic, it evaluates and ranks potential candidates based on role alignment.
The results include a detailed breakdown of each candidate's strengths and weaknesses, offering immediate value to our recruiters by enabling faster, more informed decision-making.
How Microsoft Fabric helped us
We collaborated with Microsoft’s AI Co-Innovation Labs for an intensive one-week in-person engagement, resulting in a powerful proof-of-concept solution utilizing Azure Open AI, Azure AI Search, and Azure Document Intelligence to implement intelligent search capabilities on our data modeled in Microsoft Fabric.
By leveraging Azure Open AI and other Azure services integrated with Microsoft Fabric, our system now analyzes job descriptions and matches them with ideal candidates from our OneLake curriculum database. This solution efficiently processes thousands of resumes, ranking candidates based on their fit for job criteria and providing insights into their strengths and weaknesses for the intended role.
Through an iterative development process shaped by real-world feedback from our capacity team, we created a solution that addresses our biggest challenges: time-to-hire and match quality. This innovation transformed a previously time-consuming, manual process into a streamlined, AI-driven workflow, significantly enhancing our recruitment efficiency and effectiveness.
Our Microsoft
Fabric team
At Nearsure, we have a team of data and AI specialists dedicated to delivering customized solutions that address your unique challenges and capitalize on new opportunities.
Data engineers
Data scientists
ML engineers
Gen AI engineers
ML ops engineers
We have experience in extracting data from the most diverse sources, such as Power Platform, Dynamics CRM, SAP, legacy systems, and more.
Our team can enhance your data capabilities, enabling predictive analysis, pattern detection, and the application of machine learning and generative AI techniques. With our expertise, your business will not only be equipped to utilize your data effectively but also drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge in the market.
Our partnership models: your journey, your way
Staff augmentation
Scale your in-house teams quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively with our flexible talent solutions.
Whether you need individual experts or custom teams, we offer pre-vetted specialists to co-create value with your in-house teams, quickly assembling the right talent and ensuring they integrate well with your projects.
Managed services
We provide dedicated teams committed to delivering specific outcomes that drive business impact. This means we can offer end-to-end project delivery, ongoing support, or POD (Project Oriented Delivery) services, tailored to meet the specific scope of work you require.
Microsoft Fabric FAQs
In March 2024, Microsoft announced that the Power BI Premium per capacity SKUs (P-SKU) will be retired. While the change doesn’t require immediate action, after January 1, 2025, Power BI Premium per capacity customers should work with their Microsoft account representative to transition to a suitable Fabric capacity and pricing plan for their next renewal.
This raises exciting new opportunities, but it also introduces some challenges.
Fabric contains tools and functionalities that let you construct more powerful and complete solutions than before with Power BI Premium. At the same time, this usage could signify more CU consumption, causing the need for bigger F-SKU tiers. Storage and network usage are now also part of the equation in Fabric too. For this reason, governance and resource usage monitoring is more relevant now than ever. Complex ETL optimization is now paramount to keep your CU consumption under control.
If you already have a Premium SKU, we suggest you start planning the best way to transition your current workspaces to your new Fabric capacity, along with how and when to do it. Also, if you are using specific features like Power BI Report Server, consider how this transition will affect you.
Nearsure can help you to plan the steps needed to get a smooth transition. Contact us!
Cloud analytics offerings do not typically include databases, machine learning functionalities, or big data capabilities simultaneously. These are usually separate products or services, each with its own licensing plan. This creates significant complexity in licensing an enterprise data solution in the cloud, as well as technical challenges in integrating all these different technologies to work efficiently together.
Microsoft Fabric greatly simplifies the enterprise data landscape by offering a comprehensive platform without the need to contract distinct cloud components. It provides a unified analytics platform that includes an end-to-end, highly integrated, all-in-one SaaS solution. This encompasses data engineering, data science, data warehousing, and real-time analytics within a single platform.
By adopting Microsoft Fabric, your organization gains a future-ready data platform that enhances decision-making, optimizes performance, and fosters innovation.
Some of the main benefits of Microsoft Fabric are:
- Cost Efficiency: Reduce infrastructure costs with a serverless, pay-as-you-go capacity model, optimizing expenses while maintaining flexibility and performance
- Unified Data Platform: Integrates data from multiple sources into one platform, removing data silos and enhancing accessibility within your organization.
- Scalability and Performance: Microsoft Fabric is built for enterprise workloads, offering high performance, fast processing speeds, and seamless scalability for business growth.
- Enhanced Collaboration: Provide teams with a centralized workspace where data engineers, analysts, and business users can work together, ensuring consistency and efficiency in data management.
- Security and Compliance: Microsoft Fabric offers enterprise-grade security, governance, and compliance standards to protect your data and meet industry regulations.
If any of these situations resonate with you, Microsoft Fabric is likely the right solution to unlock the full potential of your data and drive your business forward.
Digital transformation initiatives: If your organization is embarking on a digital transformation journey, Microsoft Fabric provides a modern, scalable, and unified data platform to support your initiatives, ensuring a smooth transition to more advanced data practices.
Mergers and acquisitions: The integration of data from various organizations following a merger or acquisition could be greatly facilitated by Fabric's capability to connect to multiple data sources and establish a cohesive data estate.
Building a data-driven culture: Microsoft Fabric’s user-friendly interface and self-service analytics capabilities empower business users to access and analyze data, fostering a data-driven culture across the organization.
Microsoft Fabric represents a fundamental shift in data management, offering a unified SaaS platform designed to transform raw data into actionable insights. Its key advantages include:
- Unified data estate: Fabric consolidates data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence into a single, integrated environment. This eliminates data silos, reduces integration complexity, and lowers costs. OneLake, Fabric's foundational data lake, acts as a single source of truth for all organizational data.
- AI-powered capabilities: Fabric seamlessly integrates with Azure AI services, enabling organizations to build and deploy machine learning models, automate data processes, and uncover hidden insights through features like Copilot.
Why is this important? It empowers organizations to leverage AI for innovation and competitive advantage, moving beyond basic data management. - Open and flexible architecture: Built on open standards like Delta Lake and Parquet, with features like shortcuts, and offering open APIs, Fabric ensures data portability, interoperability, and avoids vendor lock-in.
Why is this important? It preserves flexibility and adaptability for future data strategy evolution. - Robust governance and security: Centralized governance, data lineage tracking, and integration with Microsoft Purview ensure data security, compliance, and responsible management.
Why is this important? It provides enterprise-grade data protection and meets regulatory requirements. - Democratized data access: Intuitive interfaces, low-code/no-code options, and seamless Power BI integration empower users of all skill levels to work with data.
Why is this important? Fosters a data-driven culture and maximizes the value of data across the organization. - Cost-effective scalability: The SaaS model offers pay-as-you-go pricing, reduced infrastructure overhead, and on-demand scalability.
Why is this important? It delivers enterprise-grade capabilities at an optimized cost, suitable for businesses of all sizes.
Microsoft Fabric is part of and built on Azure, but it's presented as a distinct, unified SaaS offering.
While Fabric is powered by and integrated with Azure, it's presented as a separate, unified SaaS product. It's not simply a rebranding of existing Azure services; it's a distinct offering built on top of Azure, providing a more streamlined and user-friendly experience for data and analytics. It is an Azure service, in that it's offered through the Azure platform and uses Azure billing, but it's a specific type of Azure service—a comprehensive, unified analytics platform.
Think of Azure as a large hardware store with all the tools and materials you could need to build a house —individual services like Synapse, Data Factory, etc. Microsoft Fabric is like a pre-designed house kit, built using those tools and materials, but providing a much simpler, more integrated building experience. You still benefit from the quality of the underlying components (Azure), but you don't have to assemble everything from scratch.
