🚀 Pilot to Production: Your Fast Track to #MicrosoftFabric Success Unlock a proven path to scale Microsoft Fabric from early pilots to enterprise-wide adoption. Learn how to accelerate deployment, optimize governance, and drive real business value. 🔗 Read the blog to get the practical guide! https://lnkd.in/eQBmNEzd

Every day you delay, governance costs keep piling up without visibility. With Microsoft Purview’s new Usage Monitoring (Preview), you can finally build a chargeback model that connects governance activities to real costs. In our latest blog, we break it down to a 5-step repeatable playbook 👉 https://2tl.co/475Uovz This isn’t theory, it’s actionable guidance for IT leaders and governance professionals. Don’t wait for the finance team to ask hard questions. Be ready with answers. #MicrosoftPurview #ChargebackModel #CostOptimization #Microsoft365

#Microsoft renewals are evolving—how do you know if you're actually prepared? In this Insights for IT Negotiations episode, Adam Mansfield breaks down Microsoft's strategy, from #Copilot adoption trends to the push for early commitments and the rise of consumption-based models. Before you sign on the dotted line, ask the tough questions and maximize your leverage in #ITnegotiations. Take back control of your Microsoft renewal negotiations. Listen here: https://hubs.ly/Q03BQb2R0

💡 Missed yesterday’s Patch Tuesday Call? We broke down exactly how to turn your Microsoft Co-op funds into marketing fuel. Here’s what members learned: ➡️ Where to track earned and planned funds in Partner Center ➡️ The 5-step Co-op lifecycle — earn, plan, execute, claim, get paid ➡️ What qualifies (and what doesn’t) for reimbursement Don’t miss future sessions — they’re built to help partners grow smarter and faster. https://lnkd.in/gnmQ6isY Rob Fegan Eddie Bader Sandie Knight John Nicolau #MicrosoftPartners #PatchTuesday #RyzeCommunity #PartnerSuccess

Your clients aren’t the only ones frustrated by slow, disconnected systems. So are your lawyers. When matter data, billing, and updates are scattered across multiple tools, your lawyers spend more time fixing errors than practicing law. The result? Morale drops. So does productivity. Firms leading the shift aren’t overhauling everything. They’re simplifying what already exists. The Microsoft Industry Cloud for Law Firms connects everything your teams need within the Microsoft environment they already use. No extra steps. No new systems to learn. Just one unified place to manage the full matter lifecycle with less rework, better collaboration, and faster decisions. See how connected legal operations drive real performance: https://lnkd.in/gN6qTr4y #MatterMadeSimple #LawFirmLeadership #LawyerExperience #LegalTech #MicrosoftIndustryCloud #BuiltForLegal

Five Ontology Types. I submit these "have" to be built in numerical order, whether documented separately or not. In what types do Enterprise Architecture modeling and metamodeling fit? Process modeling? Information flows? Resource flows? Data modeling (i.e., CDM, LDM, PDM, DB schema)? https://lnkd.in/emBqfgg2

The European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft following concerns over its bundling of Teams with its Office productivity suite, marking a significant development in EU #techregulation. In our latest #Perspectives, Daniel Hunt and Alex Cooper explore the legal implications of the Commission’s decision, its focus on Microsoft’s dominant position in SaaS productivity tools, and what it signals for future #enforcement in the #digitalmarkets space. https://lnkd.in/e-w8zqZr

When Teams Start Talking About Abandoning Microsoft Fabric Over the past few weeks, a growing number of teams have been openly discussing their frustrations with Microsoft Fabric — some even planning to “jump ship.” As someone who has spent the past year deep in Fabric, I understand the sentiment. Here’s what’s really happening 👇 1. The SaaS Trap Many adopted Fabric thinking “Microsoft will manage everything.” But data platforms are never fully hands-off — even SaaS. Governance, workspace sprawl, CI/CD, and capacity tuning still demand strong internal discipline. 2. The Documentation & Tooling Gap Fabric is evolving faster than its documentation. Engineers hit friction not because the tools are bad, but because guidance lags behind releases. That gap causes confusion, rework, and frustration. 3. Consulting Fatigue Too many “experts” jumped early into Fabric without deep delivery experience. Many customers ended up with slide decks instead of working CI/CD pipelines — eroding trust across the ecosystem. 4. The Shiny-Object Problem There’s valid concern that Microsoft’s focus on Copilot and buzz features may distract from fundamentals like stability, notebooks, and Spark SQL views. And that’s fair criticism. But here’s my take: Abandoning Fabric entirely might not be the lesson. The lesson is that you need a clear delivery culture before adopting any platform. If your team doesn’t have CI/CD standards, naming conventions, or clear data ownership — no tool will fix that. Fabric has growing pains. So did Databricks. So did Snowflake. But teams that learn to design around Fabric’s strengths — Direct Lake, unified governance, Power BI integration — are quietly delivering real business value. Curious to hear: If your team is staying on Fabric, what’s actually working for you? And if you’re leaving — what platform fits your data culture better? Let’s open the discussion. #MicrosoftFabric #DataEngineering #BusinessIntelligence

In this episode of our Accelerating Sustainability Together series, Microsoft’s Nico De Golia and Cassie Pemberton explore how organizations stay ahead of global rules—and use compliance to fuel growth. 🎥 Watch the episode to learn how regulatory readiness builds resilience: https://msft.it/6042s0v4s #AcceleratingSustainability #ESGCompliance

Every IT leader wants quick answers when systems stall. So, it’s natural to think: “If we work directly with Microsoft, we’ll get to the solution faster.” It sounds logical, until you’ve lived it. Inside Microsoft, tickets still move through multiple teams, each focused on a narrow piece of the problem. Every handoff resets context. That means your team spends valuable time re-explaining the issue while production waits. Here’s the paradox: Direct access can actually slow you down. If you want to keep momentum while working inside a layered support model, try this: - Own the narrative. Write one clear problem summary with timestamps, affected systems, and business impact. Share it with every new contact who joins the thread. - Track transitions. Note when a case changes hands or teams—those are the moments where context is lost. - Create continuity. Keep one internal owner on your side responsible for documenting what’s been tried and what’s pending. - Ask targeted questions. “What data would help your team move faster?” gets better results than “Can someone update me?” The fastest route through any escalation chain is the one where you control the narrative. What are doing to control your escalation paths?