Microsoft Fabric Readiness: 4-Week Assessment

Partner with Bitwise, the migration and data experts, to modernize your data landscape leveraging the revolutionary data management and analytics ecosystem, Microsoft Fabric.

This unified and collaborative platform caters to all business and technical roles in the organization while serving as the data foundation for the AI era. In addition to the Fabric assessment and migration roadmap, Bitwise can help assess and automate the migration of any major existing ETL tools like SSIS, DataStage, Informatica, Ab Initio, etc. to ADF and/or Fabric (PySpark) pipelines. Partner with Bitwise to jumpstart your journey to Microsoft Fabric.

This evaluation provides essential insights into your organization's readiness for adopting this powerful data platform. The four-week assessment is geared towards organizations that have a thorough understanding of their data landscape, business goals, data requirements, reporting/visualization needs, security and governance posture. This comprehensive evaluation provides a detailed roadmap for migrating your data workloads and realizing the benefits of a unified data platform.

Our experts will:

• Document your business objectives: Collaborate with your team to identify key business drivers, goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and data needs, reporting/visualization requirements.
• Assess your current state: Conduct a thorough evaluation of your data sources, formats, volumes, ETL/ELT processes, data quality, lineage, data validation, data archival, auditing, infrastructure, security (IAM), governance, encryption, reporting/visualization, DevOps, and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
• Evaluate Fabric capabilities: Analyze how Microsoft Fabric's features align you’re your organizations business and data requirements.
• Develop a migration strategy: Create a tailored plan for migrating your workloads to Microsoft Fabric. Bitwise can help with automating the migration of existing pipelines from major tools ETL tools like SSIS, DataStage, Informatica, Ab Initio, AWS Glue, etc. to ADF and/or Fabric (PySpark) pipelines.
• Estimate effort and resources: Provide estimates for implementation, which include resource planning and cost-benefit analysis.

By the end of this engagement, you'll have a clear understanding of the benefits and potential challenges associated with adopting Microsoft Fabric, an assessment of your current landscape compared to the desired future state, an overview of the project scope and objectives, determine suitable Fabric services for your landscape, identifying a clear migration strategy with a preliminary project timeline and resource requirements. The goal is to empower your stakeholders to make informed decisions about your data strategy to ensure your data landscape is future ready for the AI era.

Key Benefits and Deliverables:

• Executive Summary: A concise overview of project scope, key findings, recommendations, and next steps.
• Business Requirements Document (BRD): Outlining the business needs, KPIs, and data requirements for analytics on Fabric.
• Data Landscape Assessment Report: Detailing the current data environment.
• Fabric Capabilities Assessment Report: Evaluating how Fabric's features align with business requirements and data needs. Outline opportunities, key challenges, potential issues, and limitations.
• Migration Strategy: Outline a high-level solution architecture to implement workloads on Fabric.
• Effort & Resource detailing: Estimates for greenfield implementation or migration to Fabric.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis: Comparing the costs and benefits of adopting Fabric.