THE NEED FOR CHANGE
Fragmented data estate hindered scale and AI readiness
A global CPG enterprise had outgrown its complex, multi-technology data platform. Although the environment had replaced manual reporting with centralized data capabilities, multiple tools, orchestration layers, and warehouse dependencies were increasing cost and operational risk.
- Platform run costs growing to 40% above the industry benchmark
- Complex orchestration across 13,329 processing tasks
- Oversight fragmented across 5,000+ localized BI products and solutions
- Over 50% of incidents linked to job failures
- Over 70% of effort spent on data processing
The existing data democratization model also led to inter-dependencies, duplication, inconsistent oversight, and quality issues across individual warehouses and jobs. Data teams were spending more time acquiring and processing data than generating business insights.
The business needed a simpler, governed, and reusable AI-ready data foundation.
ARCHITECTING THE TRANSFORMATION
A unified data platform powered by Microsoft Fabric for reusable, governed data products
We helped build a unified AI powered data Platform on Microsoft Fabric, bringing together capabilities across Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Science, Synapse Data Warehouse, Synapse Real-Time Analytics, Power BI, Data Activator, and OneLake. More than a platform migration, it transformed the enterprise data landscape into a centralized, governed, and reusable data foundation, making trusted data products accessible across the enterprise.
The operating model shifted from data as a service delivery to reusable data products. AI-led migration accelerated code conversion, validation, and testing, with a Digital Command Center providing monitoring, traceability, and visibility across data flows. The transformation also strengthened data governance through data contract-based onboarding, with Fabric data agents continuously managing data quality.
With coverage across 60+ countries across geography, 50,000 engineering jobs/ workloads and more than 10000+ enterprise BI users, the program represents one of the earliest and largest enterprise data platform implementations on Microsoft Fabric globally.
THE IMPACT
A trusted, scaleable data foundation for AI-led growth
Simplified enterprise data operations
Reusable data
across markets
More focus on analytics value
>60% reduction in storage footprint
