Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Platforms
Fabric Lakehouse and Warehouse platforms, and the Azure estate underneath them - built, loaded, secured and handed over.
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Data architecture - engineering - BI - AI
Twenty-five years of making data mean something to the business
Glyde Data Consulting is primarily Kevin D Hoffman - a Microsoft Certified Data Engineer working from County Louth. Platforms that hold up at national scale, reporting people actually open, and an honest answer about what your data can support.
Certified
- Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer
- Microsoft Azure Data Engineer
- Microsoft Data Analyst
- Certified Data Engineer, Analytics Institute of Ireland
- IBM Cognos BI Solutions Expert
What we do
Six things, done properly
Most engagements draw on two or three of these at once. A platform is rarely just a dashboard, and a model is rarely just a table.
Data Architecture and Engineering
The model underneath the reports. Designed once, properly, so the next question does not mean rebuilding it.
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Power BI, Dashboards and Reporting
Reporting built around the decision it supports - plus the tenant governance that keeps it trustworthy at scale.
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Analytics and Applied AI
Predictive models built on your data, by someone who built the warehouse underneath them.
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BI Migration and Modernisation
Moving a legacy BI estate onto Power BI or Fabric, without losing the logic buried inside it.
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Web and Business Applications
Websites and internal applications, backed by the same database discipline as the data work.
Find out moreNational health service programme
- The problem
- Every acute hospital in the country held its own waiting-list data, in its own shape. There was no single national view to manage against, and a government waiting-list programme needed one.
- The result
- A national waiting-list picture from a fragmented estate - and a parallel historic ETL that meant each newly onboarded hospital went live with its full history rather than starting from zero.
SQL - SSIS - Azure Data Factory - Azure Data Lake - Azure SQL Database - Azure DevOps
Listed homebuilder, Dublin
- The problem
- Project scheduling, finance and operational data sat in disconnected systems, with no information layer the business could report from consistently.
- The result
- One platform the business reports from, on Fabric, where onboarding a new dimension is a configuration change rather than a development cycle.
Microsoft Fabric - Azure Synapse - PySpark - SQL - Power BI - Power Apps - Logic Apps - Azure DevOps
Global professional services firm
- The problem
- Three global products needed a data and SQL workstream taken from backlog through to delivery, in parallel, on a release cadence.
- The result
- Releases 4 and 5 of the platform, and releases 1 and 2 of both the usage and content management products, delivered.
Azure SQL Database - Power BI
How we work
No surprises, and nothing you cannot maintain
Understand the business first
We start with the process, not the database. Often the reporting problem turns out to be a business process problem - we will say so when that is what we find, in writing, rather than quietly building around it.
Say no to the wrong project
If a well-specified report would answer the question at a fraction of the cost of the platform you asked about, that is the advice you will get. Twenty-five years is long enough to stop selling the interesting option.
Build, test and document as we go
Detailed documentation of findings, all source code and artefacts for bespoke work, and - where it is missing - a report development QA process and unit testing for BI deployments.
Hand it over completely
Configuration-driven wherever possible, so your team onboards the next source without us. Strict confidentiality throughout and afterwards.
Industries
Experience across sectors
The technology varies less between industries than people expect. What changes is the vocabulary, the regulatory constraints and the questions people need answered - which is what the first week is for.
- Healthcare & public health
- Construction & homebuilding
- Banking & payments
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Telecoms
- Investments
- Gaming
- Professional services
- Pharmaceuticals
Working from Ireland, delivering anywhere
Twenty-five years across Ireland, the UK, Germany, and coordinating teams and customers in Latin America, the Middle East, the United States and India - offering the same level of professional service you would expect onsite.
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