Category: Microsoft

Rajan Chavda Discusses MS Fabric

A Technical Deep Dive with Rajan Chavda, Senior Solutions Architect. For our first Spotlight interview, Nicola, our Head of Marketing, sat down with Rajan Chavda to discuss how Microsoft Fabric is paving the way for analytics and AI adoption, the shift from infrastructure management to plug-and-play analytics, and why the single source of truth remains the enterprise’s main goal.

Microsoft Ignite 2025: The Debrief from Oakland’s LinkedIn Live

If you missed our very first LinkedIn Live, don’t worry – we’ve pulled out all the key points in this handy blog. Here are the practical takeaways from our four experts as they looked back at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and what it all means for the future of data and AI for your organisation!

How Microsoft Fabric is Reshaping the Enterprise Data Platform

At a recent Oakland event co-hosted with Microsoft, we had the pleasure of welcoming Chris Webb, a seasoned Microsoft Fabric expert and member of the Fabric Customer Advisory Team. Chris ran a session exploring Microsoft Fabric in full, answering: Below, we round up the insight Chris shared during the informative session – a must-read if…

Should you Adopt Microsoft Fabric as your Data Platform?

As Microsoft Partners; here at Oakland we’re being asked by more and more clients if Microsoft Fabric could help them to drive better more profitable outcomes from their data? Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric Microsoft Fabric has been out on general release for a while now and is increasingly seen as a serious alternative to a bespoke Data…

Microsoft Purview Latest Insights

As Oakland is ‘everything data’ we are always working on the latest and best ways we can help our clients deliver value, with data governance tooling such a huge part of enterprise organisations data governance journey, we jumped at the chance to host a workshop with our Microsoft partners focused on our Microsoft Purview consulting…

Is Microsoft Purview The Answer to Modern Data Governance?

In today’s data-driven world, effective governance is crucial for managing vast volumes of information while ensuring security and compliance. Microsoft Purview promises a robust solution to modern data governance challenges, offering seamless integration with Microsoft’s ecosystem. As businesses increasingly rely on data to drive decision-making, tools like Purview help streamline data cataloguing, classification, and protection. …

How to create a secure Azure Data Platform

There are many methods you can use to secure your data platform and the data contained within it within Azure. The security controls that will be most effective for each data platform differ based on the usage of the platform, the data sources for the platform and many other factors; Having a holistic view of…

Azure Bicep – Deploy a Data Platform in One Click

Azure Bicep is a declarative language for Azure infrastructure, it is the successor of ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates. Bicep is one of the languages through which Azure has enabled the deployment of IaC (Infrastructure as Code).   What is Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code is the declaration of compute, networking and infrastructure resources…

The rise of Power BI (and BI as a whole) 

The rise of Power BI (and BI as a whole) Over the last few years, Power BI has gone from a visualisation tool on the side to become front and centre in the business intelligence (BI) industry. A combination of including the tool in Office 365 subscriptions and adding more and more features over the…

Gain control of your SharePoint Data

Most medium to large companies have a sizable Microsoft SharePoint space, containing thousands, if not millions of data files – but do you know what exactly is in them? In this post, we’ll lay out three core elements for gaining control of your SharePoint data, below, and most importantly why. Outlining the strategy and tooling…