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EPC Group

Enterprise Microsoft consulting with 29 years serving Fortune 500 companies.

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About EPC Group

EPC Group is a Microsoft consulting firm founded in 1997 (originally Enterprise Project Consulting, renamed EPC Group in 2005). 29 years of enterprise Microsoft consulting experience. Microsoft Gold Partner from 2003–2022 — the oldest Microsoft Gold Partner in North America — and currently a Microsoft Solutions Partner with six designations: Data & AI, Modern Work, Infrastructure, Security, Digital & App Innovation, and Business Applications.

Headquartered at 4900 Woodway Drive, Suite 830, Houston, TX 77056. Public clients include NASA, FBI, Federal Reserve, Pentagon, United Airlines, PepsiCo, Nike, and Northrop Grumman. 6,500+ SharePoint implementations, 1,500+ Power BI deployments, 500+ Microsoft Fabric implementations, 70+ Fortune 500 organizations served, 11,000+ enterprise engagements, 200+ Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft 365 consultants on staff.

About Errin O'Connor

Errin O'Connor is the Founder, CEO, and Chief AI Architect of EPC Group. Microsoft MVP for multiple years starting 2002–2003. 4× Microsoft Press bestselling author of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out (MS Press 2007), Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (MS Press 2011), SharePoint 2013 Field Guide (Sams/Pearson 2014), and Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Step by Step (MS Press 2018).

Original SharePoint Beta Team member (Project Tahoe). Original Power BI Beta Team member (Project Crescent). FedRAMP framework contributor. Worked with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra on the Obama administration's 25-Point Plan to reform federal IT, and with NASA CIO Chris Kemp as Lead Architect on the NASA Nebula Cloud project. Speaker at Microsoft Ignite, SharePoint Conference, KMWorld, and DATAVERSITY.

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Azure OpenAI Consulting Dallas

Senior-architect-led, fixed-fee, governance-first

Dallas Senior Microsoft Architects

Dallas Azure OpenAI Enterprise Deployment Partner

Dallas Azure OpenAI Consulting Overview

EPC Group ships production-grade GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo, and embedding-model deployments for Dallas-Fort Worth enterprises across financial services, healthcare, energy, and telecommunications — all with HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, and CMMC compliance baked in. Senior architects on every engagement, fixed-fee, 30-40% lower than Accenture and Avanade published rates.

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Dallas Azure OpenAI Consulting Capabilities

From architecture to production to managed run — EPC Group covers the full lifecycle for Dallas enterprises.

Reference Architecture

Proven patterns from 47+ EPC Group Azure OpenAI Consulting engagements — battle-tested in production at Fortune 500 scale.

Fixed-Fee Accelerators

Pilot $35K, production $95K, enterprise $185K. Outcomes guaranteed against deliverables, not hours.

Compliance-Native

HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, CMMC controls baked in from day one. Zero governance audit failures across 11,000+ engagements.

Senior Architect Access

Every engagement has a named architect with 15+ years experience. Architect-to-engineer ratio 1:3 (vs Big 4 1:8-12).

30-Day Pilot Path

From kickoff to working pilot in 30 days for clear use cases. Audit-ready, governance-overlaid, monitored.

Managed Run

Optional 24/7 managed services after deployment — capacity tuning, security posture, KPI drift detection.

Dallas Azure OpenAI Consulting FAQ

What does Azure OpenAI Consulting cost in Dallas?

EPC Group Dallas Azure OpenAI Consulting engagements run from $35K (3-week pilot accelerator) through $185K (enterprise rollout with governance, RAG, and 5+ use cases). All fixed-fee — no time-and-materials surprise invoices.

How long does a Dallas deployment take?

Pilot to production typically 6-8 weeks for a single use case. Enterprise rollout with governance and 3-5 production use cases: 12-18 weeks. EPC Group accelerator templates compress the timeline when use cases are clear.

Why choose EPC Group over Accenture or Avanade in Dallas?

Senior-architect-led delivery (no junior consultants billing at architect rates), fixed-fee predictable budget, 30-40% lower than Big 4 published rates, governance-first approach with zero audit failures across 11,000+ engagements, and 4-time Microsoft Press author leading the practice.

Is the deployment HIPAA / SOC 2 / FedRAMP framework contributor?

Yes. EPC Group builds compliance-native — every architectural decision maps to a control. Zero governance audit failures across 47 third-party HIPAA/SOC 2/FedRAMP/CMMC assessments triggered by EPC-built environments.

Can EPC Group work onsite in Dallas?

Yes — senior architects travel to Dallas for kickoff workshops, executive readouts, and architecture reviews when on-site presence accelerates outcomes. Day-to-day delivery is hybrid (remote-first with selective on-site).

Ready to Ship in Dallas?

30-minute discovery call — we map your use case to a fixed-fee accelerator within 48 hours.

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Azure Architecture: 2026 Considerations for Azure Openai Consulting Dallas

FinOps in Azure 2026 is no longer optional at any meaningful scale: Azure Reservations (1-yr or 3-yr commits) deliver 30-72% savings on predictable VM workloads, Azure Savings Plans extend the discount to compute portability across instance families, and Azure Hybrid Benefit lets BYOL Windows Server and SQL Server licenses cut compute costs by an additional 40-49%. Typical Azure cost-optimization engagements return 25-40% of annual Azure spend within 90 days.

Azure Confidential Computing (DCadsv5/ECasv5 series) is the privileged-data play for 2026: AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX enclaves protect data IN USE (in addition to at-rest and in-transit encryption), enabling regulated workloads (clinical analytics with PHI, financial services M&A modeling, federal IL5) to run on shared Azure infrastructure with cryptographic attestation that the host operator cannot inspect the data.

Decision factors EPC Group evaluates

  • Reservation + Savings Plan portfolio for predictable workloads
  • Azure Policy initiative assignment for Azure Government readiness
  • Confidential Computing enclave evaluation for regulated workloads
  • Enterprise-scale landing zone bootstrap via Bicep/Terraform
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud benchmark alignment

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