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Open Water Fabric

Your fast and future-ready framework for Microsoft Fabric

Enable faster deployment, stronger governance, and a scalable, enterprise-ready data platform.
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What is Open Water Fabric?

Open Water Fabric is part of the Open Water Frameworks, DataDivers’s suite of cloud data accelerators.
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Designed to seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Fabric, it provides the architecture, automation, and governance you need to stand up a modern analytics platform, without months of manual setup. Whether you’re migrating to Fabric or optimising your existing data environment, Open Water Fabric helps you deploy, scale, and manage with confidence.

Importantly, Open Water Fabric operates without proprietary technology or licensing constraints, ensuring you're not locked into specific solutions post-deployment. We provide the deployment code, giving you the independence and flexibility to replicate and adapt the deployment as your needs evolve.

Unlocking solutions faster with Open Water Fabric

Open Water Fabric directly addresses the critical challenges faced by organisations in their data transformation journey, paving the way for a more efficient and reliable data infrastructure.

Migrate seamlessy from legacy platforms

Transitioning from legacy systems, such as Business Objects on Oracle databases, can be daunting. Open Water Fabric provides a streamlined path to modernise and migrate to Microsoft Fabric, simplifying what can be a complex task.

Create a standardised and innovative data platform

Avoid turning your Fabric deployment into a fragmented "Wild West." Open Water Fabric helps establish a governed yet innovative platform, eliminating departmental silos and ensuring consistent standards so that decision-making is effective and trustworthy.

Streamline data management and reporting

Moving beyond the inefficiencies and risks of Excel-based reporting, Open Water Fabric consolidates disparate spreadsheets into a unified platform. This reduces manual data handling and enhances organisation-wide analytics and reporting capabilities.

Why choose Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric is an all‑in‑one, software‑as‑a‑service (SaaS) analytics platform that unifies data engineering, integration, warehousing, real‑time analytics, data science and reporting in one governed environment.
Instead of stitching tools together, Fabric gives your teams a single, unified place to manage everything from data ingestion to visualisation.

Fabric's integrated approach provides several advantages for your organisation:

Integrated analytics from data ingestion through reporting
Consistent, user-friendly experiences
Easy access and reuse of all assets
Unified data lake storage preserving data in its original location
AI assistance built into every workload
Centralised administration and governance
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Why work with Open Water Fabric?

Rapid deployment

A typical deployment process can take months. DataDivers's Open Water Fabric frameworks cuts the process to as little as one working day with our experts and experience.

We handle the hard part: cloning environments, maintaining connections, applying rules and making sure everything is wired correctly. You get a ready-to-use platform without the heavy engineering effort.

Cost-efficient, ready-made frameworks

Building your own Fabric framework is expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to maintain, requiring resources and data experts.

Open Water Fabric gives you a proven, reusable framework that costs less than building from scratch and reduces ongoing configuration effort.

We are multidisciplinary experts

Our Data Divers are sought after for their experience, credentials and understanding of all things data. We offer ongoing support and new features with a subscription.

Our people are some of the best in their fields, but they are also humble. This means that everyone, leadership team included, is prepared to roll up their sleeves to help when needed.

Well-architected with proven capabilities

Open Water Fabric is an "out of the box" solution, well-architected and secure by design, reflecting leading industry best practices. With built-in DataOps essentials such as CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting, the platform ensures robust and efficient operations.

We've successfully delivered Open Water Fabric to numerous clients, including groundbreaking deployments that automate ingestion and transformation logic for scalable, repeatable reporting.

Flexible and extendible

Our platform is designed with flexibility and extendibility at its core. It is metadata-driven, making it highly configurable and scalable, and compatible with various data formats, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

Utilise our pipeline templates and custom control schema to effortlessly integrate new data sources and models, ensuring adaptability to your evolving needs.

Built-in documentation and governance

Open Water Fabric strengthens Fabric's governance with comprehensive documentation and structured ingestion, transformation, and storage patterns. This allows your team to concentrate on delivery rather than managing infrastructure. A customised documentation wiki supports maintainability, tailored to your needs.
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No vendor lock-in

With Open Water Fabric, you're purchasing the framework, not just a service. We provide all the documentation, code and tools, empowering you with the flexibility to manage and create your own system on the platform.

This means freedom to adapt and innovate as you see fit.

How we do cloud data platforms differently: Open Water

Our Data Divers have developed a unique approach to delivering the future-ready cloud platforms that our clients need.

Open Water is a specially designed and independently operable framework, on your chosen provider, for establishing the right data platform for you and your business.

Our flagship Open Water frameworks enable the ingestion, curation, storage and accessibility of your data from leading industry platforms like Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, and Snowflake.

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Frequently asked questions about Open Water Fabric

Do I need Microsoft Fabric if I already have a data platform?

We usually recommend that clients continue using their existing data platform and leverage the new components within Microsoft Fabric, such as notebooks, machine learning models or experiments.

Fabric integrates natively with Microsoft Azure and is compatible with most existing platforms. For non-Azure environments, it offers many of the same connectors used by Azure, making integration seamless.

Is Microsoft Fabric compatible with Dataverse?

Yes. Fabric can access Dataverse tables through either shortcuts or Azure Synapse Link for Microsoft Fabric, allowing smooth data integration and analysis across systems.

Does Microsoft Fabric support CI/CD?

Fabric’s CI/CD capabilities are still evolving. Currently, you can implement CI/CD using DevOps pipelines or Power BI Deployment Pipelines, though Microsoft hasn’t yet established a standard recommended method. Our experts can help you determine the best approach for your environment.

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