Microsoft Fabric

Modernise your data platform. Create a stronger foundation for analytics and AI.

Data should help your organisation make better decisions, respond faster to change and identify new opportunities. Yet many organisations are still working with disconnected systems, duplicated data, ageing reporting platforms and increasing pressure to become AI-ready.

Microsoft Fabric brings together data integration, analytics, business intelligence, governance and AI capabilities within a single platform. By unifying your data estate, Fabric helps you improve visibility, simplify management and create a trusted foundation for future innovation.

At Trustmarque Ultima, we help organisations design, implement and optimise Microsoft Fabric solutions that deliver measurable business value. Whether you're modernising analytics, improving governance, streamlining reporting or preparing for AI adoption, we'll help you get more from your data.

Microsoft Fabric

Why Microsoft Fabric?

Most organisations have built their data platforms over many years. Data often sits across multiple databases, cloud platforms, applications, spreadsheets and reporting tools. As requirements grow, complexity grows with them.

The result is often inconsistent reporting, duplicated effort and limited confidence in business insight.

Microsoft Fabric addresses these challenges by bringing together data engineering, data integration, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics within a single, unified platform.

Build a trusted foundation for AI

Many organisations are exploring how AI can improve productivity, automate processes and support better decision-making.

The success of those initiatives depends on the quality, accessibility and governance of the underlying data.

Without trusted data, AI cannot deliver reliable outcomes.

Microsoft Fabric helps organisations create an AI-ready data environment by bringing together data from across the business within a secure and governed platform. This helps improve consistency, increase data visibility and provide the foundations needed to support advanced analytics, machine learning and AI services.

Whether you're exploring Microsoft Copilot, custom AI solutions or predictive analytics, Fabric provides the platform that helps turn ambition into practical outcomes.

Unify your data with OneLake

Data duplication remains one of the biggest barriers to effective analytics.

As information moves between systems, organisations often create multiple copies of the same data to support reporting, analysis and operational workloads. This increases costs, adds complexity and can reduce trust in the data being used.

Microsoft Fabric addresses this challenge through OneLake, a unified data foundation designed to simplify how data is stored, managed and accessed.

By reducing unnecessary duplication and enabling consistent access across workloads, organisations can improve governance, simplify operations and ensure teams are working from the same information.

Modernise analytics and reporting

Business leaders need access to timely, reliable information. However, many reporting environments have evolved organically and can struggle to keep pace with changing business requirements.

Microsoft Fabric provides a modern platform for analytics and reporting, helping organisations improve performance, scalability and governance while reducing complexity.

Trustmarque Ultima helps organisations:

Modernise reporting environments
Improve Power BI governance and performance
Consolidate analytics platforms
Develop scalable reporting architectures
Improve access to trusted business insight
Support data-driven decision-making

Rather than simply replacing technology, we help organisations create reporting and analytics platforms that support long-term business goals.

Make data accessible to more people

Access to business insight shouldn't depend on specialist technical skills. Many organisations have valuable data but struggle to make it accessible to the people who need it most. Business users often rely on analysts or technical teams to find answers, which can slow decision-making and limit the value of data across the organisation. Microsoft Fabric helps make data more accessible through natural language experiences that allow users to explore information, identify trends and answer business questions more easily. By reducing barriers to insight, organisations can empower more teams to make informed decisions, respond to change more quickly and build a stronger culture of data-driven decision-making.

Case Study

At Trustmarque, we help you understand your goals and reach for the clouds

“We chose to work with Ultima on this project as not only did they bring the necessary expertise to deliver the solution required, but they are also leaders in their field for working collaboratively with a client to ensure that not only the solution is appropriate but also that the transition to live and BAU is well managed.”

Kieran Park, CTO
Equifinance

*This case study relates to work delivered by Trustmarque prior to the formation of Trustmarque Ultima

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Fabric strategy and roadmap development

Understand how Microsoft Fabric aligns with your business objectives, existing technology estate and future plans.

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Data platform assessment

Review your current data landscape, identify opportunities for improvement and build a practical roadmap for change.

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Microsoft Fabric implementation

Design and deploy Microsoft Fabric environments tailored to your governance, analytics and operational requirements.

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Data integration and modernisation

Connect, transform and manage data from across your organisation within a unified platform.

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Reporting and analytics transformation

Modernise reporting environments and improve access to trusted business insight.

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Governance and security

Implement controls, policies and best practices that help protect data while enabling innovation.

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AI readiness

Create the data foundations needed to support AI, automation and advanced analytics initiatives.

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Managed services and optimisation

Continue to improve performance, governance and business value after deployment.

Turn insight into action with real-time intelligence

Business leaders often need to make decisions based on information that is changing constantly. Microsoft Fabric supports real-time analytics, enabling organisations to collect, analyse and act on live operational data. This can help support:

Operational monitoring
Asset management
Process automation
Supply chain visibility
Predictive maintenance
Real-time business dashboards

By connecting operational events with analytics and automation, organisations can identify opportunities and respond more quickly to changing conditions.

Benefits

Sector-Specific Benefits of Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is designed to meet the unique challenges of highly regulated and data-intensive sectors. Whether you're delivering public services, managing healthcare operations, or navigating complex compliance in corporate environments, Fabric provides a unified, secure, and AI-powered platform that adapts to your needs. Below, we explore how Fabric delivers measurable impact across key industries, enabling smarter decisions, faster insights, and more efficient operations.

Central Government

Compliance-First Architecture: Aligned with UK government standards, including secure collaboration across agencies.
Cross-Departmental Visibility: Consolidates fragmented data estates into a single source of truth.
Operational Efficiency: Automates reporting and reduces reliance on legacy systems.

NHS & Healthcare

Smart Spend Initiative: Supports NHS England’s mandate to reduce corporate cost growth by 50%
Improved Patient Flow: Enables real-time insights into referrals, discharges, and bed occupancy.
Integrated Performance Reporting: Delivers daily dashboards across clinical and corporate domains.
AI for Clinicians: Copilot and LLMs empower frontline staff to explore data and generate insights without coding.

Regulated Sectors

Secure Migration from Power BI Premium: Fabric F-SKUs offer a strategic upgrade path for organisations with expiring enterprise agreements.
Built for Governance: Ensures audit trails, regulatory compliance, and secure data handling.
AI-Driven Insights: Accelerates decision-making with built-in AI tailored for high-compliance sectors.

Why Trustmarque Ultima?

Successful data transformation requires more than technology implementation.

It requires expertise across cloud, infrastructure, security, governance, analytics and AI.

Trustmarque Ultima brings these capabilities together through a single team, helping organisations simplify complexity and create lasting value from their data investments.

We work closely with our customers to understand their objectives, develop practical strategies and deliver solutions that support both current priorities and future ambitions.

Whether you're developing a data strategy, modernising analytics, implementing Microsoft Fabric or preparing for AI adoption, our specialists can help you move forward with confidence.