Microsoft Fabric Migration · Durham
Microsoft Fabric Migration in Durham
Migrating Durham organisations onto Microsoft Fabric, where a useful amount of data may not need to move at all. Shortcuts let a workspace reference data where it already sits, so an estate spread across storage accounts and lakes can frequently be brought into one view without a copying exercise nobody wanted to fund.
Why this comes up
The problem
The migration plan involves copying several terabytes between storage accounts before anyone has established that it is necessary.
What you get
What we deliver
- Existing storage assessed for what can be referenced rather than relocated
- Workloads sequenced so the least dependent move first
- Semantic models and reports migrated with their dependencies mapped
- Pipelines rebuilt where the old orchestration does not translate cleanly
- Access and workspace structure designed rather than reproduced
- Old services decommissioned as each workload completes rather than left running
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what microsoft fabric migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Microsoft Fabric
- OneLake
- Power BI
- Azure
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Financial services
- Manufacturing
- Public sector
- Retail
- Healthcare
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Microsoft Fabric Migration in Durham — common questions
- Can we avoid moving data?
- Often, for a substantial part of it. Referencing existing storage rather than copying removes duplication, avoids a migration window and means one authoritative copy — which is worth establishing before anyone budgets for a large transfer exercise.
- What about our existing reports?
- They generally migrate with modest effort, and their dependencies are the part to map. A report referencing a dataset that references a source that references something else needs the whole chain understood, and that chain is rarely documented anywhere.
- Do pipelines translate directly?
- Partially. Orchestration built in other Azure services has an equivalent here and not always a mechanical one, so budgeting for rebuild rather than translation gives a more realistic estimate — and it is an opportunity to simplify pipelines that grew organically.
- How do we avoid running everything twice?
- Decommission as you go, workload by workload. The common failure is completing the interesting migrations and leaving the awkward ones on the old platform indefinitely, which means paying for both and maintaining two sets of knowledge for years.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Microsoft Fabric Migration in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise