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Ascent is proud to announce its designation as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, showcasing its innovative work in transforming data platforms for prominent organizations across diverse sectors.

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2025-01-13T23:00:00Z

Ascent Achieves Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner Status.

Ascent is recognized as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, helping organizations rapidly build data-driven business capabilities and support AI-led change on a unified modern platform.

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Ascent is proud to be recognized as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, highlighting our innovative work in transforming data platforms for leading organizations across various sectors. By strategically leveraging Microsoft Fabric, we have enabled clients to revolutionize their data management processes, drive automation, enhance insights, and reduce manual efforts while building valuable data assets.

Streamlining Economic Reporting for a Leading Business Consortium.

One of Ascent’s clients, a major representative body for businesses, sought to modernize its economic reporting processes. Historically reliant on manual data flows and outdated systems, the organization faced challenges in delivering timely insights and comparing year-over-year survey trends. Ascent implemented a scalable Microsoft Fabric platform, leveraging its proprietary Data Engineering and DataOps Platform Accelerators. Key highlights include:

  • Automating data ingestion from survey platforms and adjustment spreadsheets into a well-structured Medallion Data Lakehouse

  • Transforming of raw data into a curated semantic model for reusable insights.

  • Delivering of high-quality Power BI reports for decision-making.

  • Establishing robust pipelines to automate end-to-end data processing.

Business Impact:

  • Significant reduction in manual data preparation, freeing up resources for strategic analysis.

  • Enhanced ability to compare historical trends and generate actionable insights.

  • Accelerated reporting timelines, enabling faster and more informed decisions.

The organization plans to expand the platform’s capabilities by integrating external data sources, adding advanced predictive analytics, and exploring Generative AI for automated survey analysis.

Enhancing Performance Insights for an Elite Sports Body.

Another client, a national sports organization, embarked on a journey to leverage data for optimizing performance and minimizing injury risks for its elite athletes. Ascent partnered with this organization to enhance its performance insights platform, centralizing and enriching data from coaching, medical, and competitive scenarios. Ascent implemented Microsoft Fabric alongside Azure SQL and other cloud services, focusing on:

  • Pipeline curation of business and IoT device data into the organization’s performance insights platform.

  • Real-time analytics delivered through intuitive dashboards and mobile apps.

  • Scalable architecture to support new user groups and advanced analytics initiatives.

Business Impact:

  • Accelerated processing of millions of data rows, with near-instantaneous insights.

  • Consolidated and simplified licensing, reducing operational costs.

  • Empowered management and athletes with actionable, role-based insights.

The organization plans to democratize data insights further, exploring AI and natural language tools like Copilot to support more intuitive interactions with performance data.

Continuing A Collaborative Journey with Microsoft.

Ascent’s adoption of Microsoft Fabric underscores its commitment to delivering scalable, future-ready solutions. Fabric’s modern cloud architecture provides:

  • Automated data ingestion and transformation

  • Unified analytics through Power BI integration

  • Scalable solutions for diverse industries, from enterprise businesses to elite sports bodies and nonprofit organizations.

As a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, Ascent is uniquely positioned to help organizations unlock the full potential of their data by leveraging the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Fabric. This recognition underscores Ascent’s expertise in designing, engineering, and deploying Microsoft Fabric solutions that simplify the creation of robust data assets, drive innovation, streamline operations, and empower data-driven decision-making.

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