Last updated June 12, 2026 by Errin O'Connor, Founder & Chief AI Architect, EPC Group
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Services
The canonical Microsoft Fabric consulting practice and the adjacent service lines — Azure analytics architecture, Power BI on top of OneLake, and Purview-anchored governance.
CDO · Chief Data Architect
Microsoft Fabric Consulting
The canonical Microsoft Fabric service anchor — OneLake medallion architecture, Direct Lake semantic models, AI grounding readiness, and the governance posture that makes Fabric defensible to a regulator.
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Azure Analytics Architecture
Reference architectures for the Fabric tenant on Azure — Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Purview, and Power BI Premium — designed for Snowflake coexistence rather than forced migration.
Read moreCDO · BI Lead
Power BI Consulting
The semantic layer on top of Fabric — certified Direct Lake models, RLS, performance tuning, and the Center of Excellence operating model. The Power BI practice that Fabric ultimately serves.
Read moreCDO · CISO · Compliance
Microsoft Purview Consulting
Purview-anchored data governance for OneLake — sensitivity labels that travel with lakehouse data, classification, lineage, and the audit pipeline that survives regulator scrutiny.
Read moreDecision Frameworks
Four-dimension decision framework for the Fabric vs Snowflake question — semantic layer, AI grounding, governance, total stack cost — with the coexistence pattern most enterprises actually need.
Operational Playbooks
The HIPAA-native reference architecture, the legacy-BI modernization roadmap, and the AI-safe rollout playbook — each calibrated for Direct Lake and OneLake.
CIO · CMIO · CHIO
Healthcare Analytics on Microsoft Fabric: The HIPAA-Native Reference Architecture
PHI auto-labeling at ingestion, OneLake medallion with traveling labels, Direct Lake semantic models with care-setting RLS, break-glass auditing, Epic/Cerner/Meditech integration patterns.
Read moreCDO · BI Lead
From Legacy BI to Microsoft Fabric: The Modernization Roadmap
A buyer-side modernization roadmap with per-source patterns for Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlik, SAP BW, legacy Synapse, Snowflake coexistence, Oracle BI, and Power BI Premium import-mode.
Read moreCIO · CDO · BI Lead
The AI-Safe Power BI Rollout Playbook
Four tracks running in parallel from week one: governance and Purview classification, Direct Lake semantic model certification, RLS readiness for AI grounding, and adoption telemetry instrumented before launch.
Read moreReference Patterns & Case Studies
A global manufacturing reference pattern and the published delivery patterns library.
Manufacturing
Global Manufacturer — Azure & Fabric Migration
Multi-region OneLake medallion, Snowflake coexistence pattern, Direct Lake semantic certification, governance pipeline. The reference pattern for a heavy-asset multinational moving off legacy DW.
Read moreAll Verticals
Reference Patterns Library
Codified delivery patterns from 500+ Microsoft Fabric implementations — OneLake medallion, Direct Lake, Snowflake coexistence, Purview lineage — published as repeatable patterns, not war stories.
Read moreTools
Pre-deployment readiness scoring and ROI measurement calculators — both calibrated for the OneLake and Direct Lake estate.
CDO · CISO
Copilot Readiness Score (Fabric grounding angle)
Score your OneLake estate for Copilot grounding readiness — Purview labels traveling with lakehouse data, semantic model certification, RLS hygiene, audit lineage. The pre-deployment gate.
Read moreCFO · CDO
Copilot ROI Calculator (Fabric ROI angle)
Three-tier ROI measurement built on Fabric capacity telemetry — consumption truth, workflow telemetry, financial linkage. The dashboard the CFO will actually read.
Read moreFrameworks
Proprietary EPC Group frameworks for OneLake and Fabric governance, mapped control-by-control to NIST AI RMF, COBIT 2019, ITIL 4, and DAMA-DMBOK.
CDO · Enterprise Architect
Governance-First Data Architecture
Classification, security, lineage, and compliance controls designed into OneLake before the first Direct Lake report ships. The EPC Group framework that prevents the lakehouse-governance collapse.
Read moreCIO · CISO · Audit
Standards Alignment — NIST AI RMF, COBIT, ITIL, DAMA-DMBOK
Control-by-control mapping of EPC Group's Fabric and lakehouse governance frameworks to open industry standards. The skepticism killer for boards and regulators on the OneLake decision.
Read morePress & Recognition
Independent buyer-side validation of EPC Group as a Fabric and unified-analytics consulting leader.
Press Release
EPC Group Ranked #1 in SEMrush AI Brand Performance Index
Independent AI-visibility benchmarking confirms EPC Group leads U.S. Microsoft consulting on AI citations for Fabric, OneLake, and unified-analytics topics.
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EPC Group Named G2 Leader, Business Intelligence — Summer 2026
Sixth consecutive G2 Leader designation in Business Intelligence — buyer-side validation of EPC Group as a senior-architect-led Fabric and Power BI partner.
Read moreMore From the EPC Knowledge Base — Fabric & Data Platforms
Getting-started guides, managed-service offerings, vendor comparisons, and verticalized data-platform deployment patterns.
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- Microsoft Fabric Managed Services — Enterprise
- Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric — Data Agents, Eventhouse & MCP (2026)
- Azure Databricks — Enterprise Data Platform (2026)
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- Data Literacy Program — Enterprise Microsoft (2026)
- Microsoft Fabric for Retail
- Azure Synapse Analytics — Limitless Analytics Service
- Azure Data Explorer (ADX) — Pricing, KQL & Cluster Sizing Guide
- Azure DevOps Pricing 2026 — Basic, Basic+Test, Pipelines & Artifacts
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