The Azure Modern Data Warehouse provides powerful Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities and can transform your complex data into business insights to share across your organisation — allowing you to save money and do more with the data you already have. As a Microsoft Partner, you can trust in our team to help you plan, build and deliver your modern data warehouse.
SOME OF OUR Azure Modern Data Warehouse ENGAGEMENTS
Modern Data Warehouse
Easily bringing together all your data at any scale and giving you insights through analytical dashboards, operational reports and advanced analytics.
Our expertise covers all aspects of Azure Modern Data Warehouse.
- From combining structured/unstructured/semi-structured data using Azure Data Factory,
- Performing scalable analytics with Azure Databricks,
- To using native connectors to Azure Synapse Analytics to move data at scale
- And using Azure Analysis Services to serve thousands of end-users.
Our engineers can help you expertly bring your data together and make it work for you.
AZURE MODERN DATA WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT
Ballard Chalmers develops, re-engineers, deploys and manages enterprise applications in the cloud or on-premises. As a company of leading professionals, our suite of comprehensive services enables speed to market, scalability and futureproofing for business-critical applications. We’d like you to consider us your outsourced development team.
AZURE MODERN DATA WAREHOUSE CONSULTING
As a Microsoft partner, our developers are industry veterans and experts in the features and technology of Microsoft technology. Bring in our developers for small engagements such as advice, recommendations, risk management review or licencing assessments; or a full development team for larger engagements such as proof of concept or application failure resolution.
AZURE MODERN DATA WAREHOUSE SUPPORT
As a Microsoft practice, we can provide ongoing application support for custom software whether we built it or it's an existing system. Our support staff are fully qualified software engineers, not helpdesk staff. That means your support team will be very familiar with the technology used and be able to provide the expertise you need, when you need it.
AZURE MODERN DATA WAREHOUSE RESOURCING
Increase the capacity of your in-house team for Azure Modern Data Warehouse with our expert team augmentation. Take our Microsoft partner expertise and give your team the boost required. If you are tight for deadlines or taking on a larger project than normal in-house, this is a simple and fast solution.
Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory is a fully managed, hybrid data integration service that allows you to make, schedule and orchestrate your ETL/ELT workflows. With over 90 built-in connectors at your fingertips, Azure Data Factory makes it is easy to visually integrate disparate data sources.
Azure Data Lake Storage
Azure Data Lake Storage is a storage platform that enables you to run high-scale analytics workloads without the need for data silos. Azure Data Lake Storage provides a single space for ingestion, processing and visualisation.
Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks is an Apache-Spark based analytics service that is fast, simple and easy to use collaboratively. Azure Databricks allows you to unlock insights from big data analytics, machine learning and real-time analytics, and build artificial intelligence solutions.
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics is an enterprise analytics service designed to provide rapid insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse combines SQL technologies, Spark technologies, Pipelines, ETL/ELT and deep integration with other Azure services.
Azure Analysis Services
Azure Analysis Services is an enterprise-grade analytics engine as a service that you can use to govern, deploy, test and deliver BI solutions. Azure Analysis Services combines data from multiple sources into a single semantic data model, providing easy data discovery for business users.
Power BI
Use Power BI, the suite of business analytics tools, to deliver insights throughout your organization from individual non-technical users to organizational-wide insights. Power BI allows you to directly connect to data stored in your data warehouse, providing simple and interactive exploration to improve confident decision making.
Azure Modern Data Warehouse Case Studies
Lighthouse Group
Lighthouse Group is a collective of financial advisory firms that provide financial solutions tailored to meet their client’s needs, for both for the individual and corporate. Lighthouse Group uses market-leading business technology and their own bespoke product solutions to deliver consistent customer outcomes for their clients.
Square Marble Technology
Square Marble Technology (SMT) is an innovative financial technology company with 25 years of experience in building fintech software. With its mission to ‘square the circle’ by pursuing perfection in every aspect of their customers’ financial management, the company is breaking new ground by using business intelligence as the foundation of its application development in ‘order to cash’ software.
Sedgemoor District Council
Azure Modern Data Warehouse consultancy for the Revenues and Benefits area of Sedgemoor District Council. Sedgemoor District Council in rural Somerset serves its population of 113,000 with services including housing, planning, recycling, rubbish collection and council tax.
Power BI
Power BI is the Ballard Chalmers tool of choice for developing reports and dashboards. With Power BI Embedded used for embedding reports into the applications that we develop for our clients.
We also develop data warehouses and Power BI data models that allow our clients’ Power users to self-serve and create their own dashboards and reports from their own data.
You can find out more about our work with Power BI on our Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence page.
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