The team behind an early Microsoft master-data product came back with a cleaner bet: make one reliable record out of corporate data chaos. Now AI has made that unglamorous job urgent.
The Texas consultancy assembled a Microsoft empire, wandered into payments, sold its way back to focus and went private. Now it has to turn the AI pilot parade into software that actually works on Monday morning.
The Austin consultancy built software to automate the least glamorous work in enterprise tech. Its real test is whether FLIP can make migrations faster without turning governance into cleanup duty.
Brian Knight built three businesses under one roof, sold two of them, and discovered the least glamorous piece was the one he wanted to keep. Today Pragmatic Works turns Microsoft's endless release cycle into a training flywheel anyone can borrow.
Microsoft Fabric is a unified, AI-powered data analytics platform that folds data engineering, data science, data warehousing, real-time intelligence, and Power BI business intelligence into one software-as-a-service experience. At its center sits OneLake, a single multi-cloud data lake that removes the need to copy and move data between tools. Copilot is threaded through every workload, letting people build pipelines, notebooks, and reports with natural language. Generally available since November 2023, Fabric is used by tens of thousands of organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 500.
This Microsoft customer story details how healthcare technology startup Subsalt built a HIPAA-compliant synthetic data sandbox on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric to help medical researchers and students at UT Southwestern Medical Center access real-quality clinical data in days instead of months, accelerating research outcomes while safeguarding patient privacy.
Striim is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company that builds a unified real-time data streaming and integration platform. Founded in 2012 by the team behind GoldenGate Software, Striim uses change data capture (CDC) to continuously ingest, process, and deliver high volumes of data with sub-second latency from databases, logs, and applications into cloud warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric. Its platform powers real-time analytics, cloud migration, and AI-ready data pipelines for enterprises including UPS, American Airlines, Macy's, and Morrisons.