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Many organisations use Power BI, but few get the modelling, governance, and performance right. Ascent helps build enterprise-grade Power BI foundations that deliver consistent, trusted, high-speed analytics across the business. https://lnkd.in/dp7aQBh9 #AscentTech #PowerBI #BusinessIntelligence #DataAnalytics #Azure

Database reliability isn’t optional - it’s mission‑critical. Here’s why 24×7 DB Admin outsourcing outperforms in‑house teams in uptime, scalability, and cost control. https://lnkd.in/dsjjDpXP #AscentTech #DBA #DatabaseAdministration #DatabaseManagement #SQLServer

Tiered pricing under EA/MPSA will soon be history. Standardised pricing through CSP puts organisations on a level playing field - with the flexibility to scale up or down as needed. At Ascent Technology, we ensure you get best value, best results. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dYuzx_yu #AscentTech #MicrosoftCSP #CloudLicensing

South Africa spent September debating digital sovereignty – GovTech in Durban, a national sovereignty agenda, the hyperscalers announcing capacity. Almost all of it concerned one question: where the data centre stands. For an enterprise, residency is the easier question and largely answered. The harder one is control: who holds the encryption keys, which credentials can reach personal information, which engines holding it are still supported, and how many copies sit with suppliers – including, as September's breaches showed, suppliers whose clients' own systems were never touched. Ascent's view is that sovereignty over data is an operating discipline, not a location. Within our Modernise – Optimise – Protect framework, Protect begins with a count of the copies, a review of standing access and a support-status register for every engine that holds personal information – evidence that exists before a regulator, an insurer or a board asks for it. Johan Lamberts sets out the four questions that decide who actually controls an organisation's data in this month's From the Desk of the MD. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/euXwcWH3 #AscentTech #DataProtection #DataLeadership

Copilot is ready the day it is switched on. Whether it delivers is decided underneath it, by the data estate it reads – and by the permissions that decide what it may read. Most organisations discover this in the first month of a rollout. The tool surfaces whatever the user is entitled to see, and in an estate where entitlements were granted in a hurry and reviewed never, that is more than anyone intended. More licences will not fix it. A foundation made ready first will. Ascent treats Copilot readiness as a sequenced programme rather than a switch: the platform modernised on Microsoft Fabric so the data is governed in one place, the quality and lineage optimised so answers can be trusted, and the permissions and sensitivity labels protected so the AI inherits only what it should. Modernise, Optimise, Protect – in that order, because each step depends on the one before. Done that way, Copilot delivers what Microsoft built it to deliver, on information you can stand behind. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d3rsKd24 #AscentTech #DataPlatformModernisation #DataStrategy

Microsoft Fabric unifies data engineering, warehousing, real-time analytics and Power BI on one lake – OneLake – where data is stored once and read by every workload. Mirroring brings operational databases in without pipelines; shortcuts reach data where it already sits; Direct Lake serves Power BI without imports or scheduled refreshes; OneLake security governs all of it with one set of rules. Ascent's Microsoft Fabric Services cover evaluation, migration planning, implementation, governance and ongoing optimisation – delivered through our Modernise – Optimise – Protect framework and, in South Africa North, with every workload and every byte of storage inside the border. We start at the source systems we already run for clients, decide what mirrors and what is reached through shortcuts, and retire extracts and loads in order once the numbers reconcile. The result is one governed copy of the estate for analytics and AI – and a much shorter list of places the data lives. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dWR53_ic #AscentTech #OneLake #DigitalTransformation