Intelligent Data Unification Assessment with Fabric

In today’s fragmented data landscape, organizations often struggle to extract timely insights and prepare for AI-driven transformation. The Intelligent Data Unification Assessment with Fabric is a strategic consulting engagement designed to evaluate your current data estate and deliver a clear, actionable roadmap for modernization. Delivered by Argano’s experts, this assessment helps unify and govern enterprise data, unlock efficiencies, and lay the foundation for advanced analytics and AI. This 4-week engagement is tailored to your organization’s scope and readiness, culminating in a future-state architecture blueprint and phased implementation plan leveraging Microsoft Fabric and Azure services.

This engagement helps your organization move from complexity to clarity by focusing on what accelerates outcomes:

• Siloed unified data access: Break down silos and connect systems to support faster, more confident decisions
• Modern analytics foundation: Replace outdated tools with a scalable architecture built for speed and adaptability
• AI-ready governance: Establish clear frameworks and security practices to support responsible AI adoption
• Aligned modernization strategy: Link technology investments directly to business goals with a phased, actionable roadmap
• Early wins that build momentum: Identify high-impact opportunities that demonstrate value and strengthen stakeholder buy-in

How This Assessment Extends Microsoft Technologies:

• Microsoft Fabric: Central to the engagement, Fabric is used to unify data sources, implement scalable analytics, and validate real-world use cases during the pilot phase.
• Microsoft Power BI: Identifies opportunities to evolve from descriptive to predictive analytics using Power BI’s advanced capabilities.
• Microsoft Azure Analytics: The assessment includes an Azure Landing Zone setup guide and cloud cost estimates, indicating integration with Azure services for analytics and data management.
• Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Data: Helps unify customer data and identify predictive use cases for segmentation, personalization, and journey optimization.
• Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys: The roadmap and skilling plan support responsible AI adoption and personalized customer journeys through better data orchestration.
• Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management: Surfaces AI opportunities in forecasting, demand planning, and operational efficiency through data modernization.
• Dynamics 365 Sales: Enables predictive lead scoring, campaign optimization, and customer behavior modeling by aligning data initiatives with business outcomes.

High-Level Agenda

• Week 1-2 Current State Analysis: Stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops, inventory of data sources and systems, pain point identification.
• Week 3 Future-State Planning: Architecture blueprinting, envisioning sessions, gap analysis, strategic alignment.
• Week 4 Roadmap & Governance Design: Development of phased modernization roadmap, governance and operating model recommendations, skilling plan, executive readout.

*Cost and timeline are estimated based on scope of work, and for more complex environments or regulatory compliance requirements, an additional two weeks are added to the standard 4-week engagement.

Key Deliverables:

• Current state assessment
• Gap analysis
• Future-state architecture blueprint
• Modernization roadmap
• Governance and operating model recommendations
• Skills matrix and skilling plan
• Azure Landing Zone setup guide
• Cloud cost estimate
• Pilot use case charter
• Executive readout presentation deck