DataOS + Microsoft Fabric

The fastest path to useful, governed, and AI-ready data

In recent years, organizations have realized something critical: Having data is not enough. What truly makes the difference is having a data operating system that allows you to leverage it in an agile, governed, and scalable way. Together with our partner Microsoft, SDG Group has created an approach that combines the best of both worlds: Microsoft Fabric as a unified platform as well as a DataOS, providing industrialization, methodology, and automation.

Today, we are explaining it in a simple and approachable way.

What is a DataOS… and why do you need it?

If you think about it, an operating system on your computer organizes processes, manages resources, and ensures that everything runs smoothly.

A Data Operating System (DataOS) does exactly the same—but with your data.

It enables all your processes—ingestion, transformation, quality, governance, observability, deployment, metadata management—to operate in a coordinated, automated, and secure way. And best of all, it eliminates duplicated efforts and allows each new use case to build on already optimized processes.

At SDG, we see modern data systems based on very clear principles. They must be composable, scalable, observable, automated, cloud-native, open, governable, and AI-ready. Only then can they keep up with the real pace of business, which now demands near real-time results over multi-month projects.

Microsoft Fabric: the platform that simplifies everything

If there is one word that defines Microsoft Fabric, it is unification.

Fabric is a comprehensive, fully integrated SaaS platform where all data services—ingestion, storage, engineering, data science, analytics, and governance—coexist seamlessly. This not only reduces time, but also complexity and costs.

With Fabric, all teams work within a single optimized and connected environment:

• OneLake as a single source of truth
• High-performance Data Warehouse engine
• Notebooks, pipelines, semantic models, and visualization with Power BI
• Native generative AI capabilities
• Unified data governance and security
  
  

Why combine DataOS + Microsoft Fabric?

Because Fabric gives you the what… and DataOS gives you the how.

Fabric provides a ready-to-use platform. DataOS provides the methodology, best practices, and automation needed to use that platform in an industrialized, efficient, and reliable way.

When you combine both, you get:

1. Metadata-driven ingestion and orchestration
   Capable of running in batches that optimize parallelization and performance.
   

    

2. Modular, governed transformations with dbt
   Since Fabric is an open platform, SDG integrates it natively as our standard transformation framework.
   

    

3. CI/CD and database versioning
   We automate deployments across dedicated environments using Azure DevOps, SqlPackage, and automated pipelines that detect changes, validate before deployment, and assess impacts beforehand.
   

    

4. Integrated governance, security, and observability
   DataOS extends the platform with observability, traceability, and auditing frameworks.
   

    

Together, this approach ensures that any data project is industrialized and sustainable from day one.

Real impact on organizations 

The partnership between SDG and Microsoft enables our clients to:

• Reduce development time by up to 40%
• Ensure quality and consistency across all data domains
• Integrate generative AI more easily
• Lower operational costs by centralizing services and automating processes
• Increase business autonomy through governed and accessible models

At a time when companies are looking to accelerate and consolidate their data strategies, this approach transforms complexity into a reliable, flexible, and scalable ecosystem.

DataOS is continuously evolving towards a future where data works for you