Reporting is becoming fragile
Refresh failures, spreadsheet handoffs, and conflicting measures are slowing decisions and eroding trust.
Microsoft Fabric, made practical
Turn scattered data into clear direction.
Meridian Software Inc helps growing organizations assess, design, and build modern data platforms with Microsoft Fabric—grounded in 20 years of enterprise delivery experience.
20years of experience
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Financial services
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Home building
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Is this where you are?
Three signs it is time to rethink your data platform.
Fabric can simplify a growing analytics estate—but only when the business case, operating model, and timing are right.
Your data stack keeps expanding
More tools, pipelines, and workarounds are increasing cost and making ownership difficult to understand.
Governance needs to catch up
Security, lineage, access, and shared definitions need a consistent foundation before analytics can scale.
Not sure Fabric is the right move? A readiness assessment will tell you whether to proceed, pilot, or wait.
Explore the assessment Capabilities
From first question to a platform your team can run.
Practical guidance and hands-on implementation, sized for organizations that need enterprise thinking without enterprise complexity.
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Fabric readiness
Understand where you are, where Fabric fits, and what to do next—with a decision-ready roadmap.
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Architecture & design
Build a secure, scalable blueprint for data ingestion, storage, governance, and analytics.
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Migration & implementation
Move from legacy platforms and disconnected reporting to a well-engineered Fabric foundation.
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Power BI reporting
Give decision-makers trustworthy metrics, intuitive dashboards, and one version of the truth.
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Training & enablement
Build confidence through practical training tailored to your technology, roles, and use cases.
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Ongoing support
Keep your platform reliable, cost-aware, and improving with expert support when you need it.
Start with clarity
Microsoft Fabric Readiness Assessment
A focused engagement that turns uncertainty into an achievable, investment-ready plan.
- Stakeholder discovery and current-state review
- Data, reporting, infrastructure, and skills assessment
- Target architecture and prioritized use cases
- Licensing, capacity, governance, and risk considerations
- Phased roadmap and executive findings presentation
Clear ways to engage
Start focused. Build with confidence.
Transparent starting points, with scope tailored to your environment and goals.
Power BI Launchpad
Move one priority reporting use case from idea to decision-ready dashboard.
From $7,500 CAD
- Discovery workshop
- Semantic model
- Executive dashboard
- Knowledge transfer
Fabric Foundation Sprint
Establish the architecture and first production-ready Fabric workload.
From $12,500 CAD
- Solution architecture
- Environment setup
- Initial data pipeline
- Governance baseline
Managed Fabric Support
Keep your data platform healthy, supported, and continuously improving.
From $2,500 CAD/mo
- Platform monitoring
- Issue support
- Cost optimization
- Monthly improvement plan
Migration and enterprise-scale programs are scoped individually. Prices exclude applicable taxes and Microsoft licensing.
Practical team enablement
Build capability while the work gets done.
Training is connected to your environment, roles, and business questions—so your team leaves ready to operate and improve what we build together.
Private team sessionsLive remote deliveryEmbedded coaching
Discuss team training
Fabric decision briefings
Understand the operating model, investment choices, governance responsibilities, and measures of success.
Power BI reporting workshops
Strengthen modelling, measure design, report usability, publishing practices, and stakeholder adoption.
Fabric platform enablement
Work hands-on with architecture, pipelines, warehousing, security, deployment, monitoring, and support.
How we work
Enterprise discipline. Human-scale delivery.
We make the path visible, involve your team early, and design for the people who will own the platform after launch.
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Discover
Align on business goals, users, data, and constraints.
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Design
Create the roadmap, architecture, and delivery plan.
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Deliver
Build in visible increments with quality and governance embedded.
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Enable
Transfer knowledge and support continuous improvement.
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Meridian brings two decades of perspective to the decisions that determine whether a data platform simply launches—or lasts.
Built on experience across regulated, operational, and public-sector environments.
Experience that travels
Complex environments have taught us to keep solutions clear.
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Financial services—trusted data, controls, and executive visibility.
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Supply chain—connected operations and performance insight.
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Home building—practical reporting across projects and functions.
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Government—governed platforms in accountable environments.
Representative experience
What the work looks like in practice.
Engagement details are anonymized to respect client confidentiality.
A governed enterprise warehouse foundation
Aligned business definitions, delivery controls, and executive reporting around a maintainable data architecture.
- Trusted measures
- Controlled access
- Clear ownership
Operational insight across disconnected systems
Connected fragmented operational data into consistent reporting designed around the decisions teams make every day.
- Shared reporting model
- Reduced manual handling
- Decision-ready views
Accountable analytics in a governed environment
Balanced delivery speed with documentation, security, transparency, and long-term supportability.
- Governance by design
- Documented decisions
- Team enablement
Meridian products
Purpose-built software, coming soon.
We’re applying the same practical approach to focused products for organizations and communities.
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Make the next decision with fewer unknowns.
These are the questions organizations commonly ask before starting a Fabric or Power BI engagement.
Ask a different questionDo we need to move everything to Fabric at once?
No. A focused pilot is usually the safer starting point. We identify one valuable, contained workload, validate the architecture, and expand only when the evidence supports it.
Is Microsoft Fabric right for every growing business?
No. Your data volume, reporting needs, existing investments, skills, governance requirements, and budget all matter. The readiness assessment may recommend proceeding, piloting, improving the current environment first, or waiting.
Can you work alongside our existing IT or data team?
Yes. Engagements can be delivered collaboratively, with architecture decisions, implementation reviews, documentation, and hands-on knowledge transfer built into the work.
What happens after implementation?
You receive documentation and enablement for the delivered scope. Ongoing support is also available for platform health, issue resolution, cost awareness, and prioritized improvements.
Are the published package prices final?
They are transparent starting prices in Canadian dollars. Final scope and pricing depend on your environment, data complexity, security needs, timeline, and required deliverables, and are confirmed before work begins.
Let’s find your next step
Bring us the data challenge you’re trying to solve.
In a complimentary 30-minute consultation, we’ll discuss your goals, current environment, and whether there’s a practical fit.
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