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From data silos to trusted insights: how a unified data platform accelerated investment decisions
OUTCOMES
Results of partnership
Decision agility
in real time
The unified data platform enabled the global investment fund to analyze its portfolio faster and respond more effectively to market changes. Decisions that once took days are now made within hours.
More efficient
IT teams
Easier access to reliable data relieved IT teams from routine reporting tasks, enabling them to focus on predictive analytics, data quality improvements, and strategic business initiatives.
Data-driven
decision culture
By unifying its information sources, the global investment fund built an organizational culture in which data has become a trusted foundation for investment, management, and operational decisions.
PROJECT
Genesis and business expectations
One of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, managing Qatar’s strategic assets, sought to enhance operational efficiency and make better use of data in decision-making processes. As the organization expanded its investment activities and global presence, it faced the challenge of efficiently leveraging vast amounts of data coming from multiple sources.
The rapid growth in operational scale exposed the limitations of the existing data infrastructure. Disparate repositories, long lead times for analytical insights, and heavy IT workloads related to reporting hindered real-time decision-making.
The fund sough a solution that would enable the creation of a unified data platform—an environment providing consistent access to information, improving business analytics efficiency, and supporting executive-level investment decisions.
PROJECT TIME
February 2025
INDUSTRY
Finance
COUNTRY
Qatar
SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS
TECHNOLOGIES
Microsoft Fabric
Mirosoft Azure
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft OneLake
Snowflake
THE CLIENT
Who have we helped?
A global investment fund based in Qatar manages the country’s strategic assets, supporting the protection and growth of its financial resources while driving economic diversification. As an international investment organization, it operates across major global markets and invests in a wide range of asset classes, from real estate and infrastructure to the technology sector.
REQUIREMENTS
Business challenges
- Establishing a single source of truth for the entire organization to ensure data consistency and reliability.
- Shortening the data-to-insight time through self-service analytics and streamlined reporting processes.
- Reducing IT teams’ involvement in report generation in favor of a self-service analytics model.
- Building a flexible, future-ready data infrastructure integrated with cloud and enterprise-grade solutions.
- Implementing a data governance model to support security, access control, and regulatory compliance in the financial sector.
ACTIONS
Project execution process
The team conducted a detailed analysis of existing data assets and infrastructure, including Snowflake, Alteryx, and Power BI environments. Key dependencies, overlapping data sources, and performance bottlenecks affecting analytics efficiency were identified.
SOLUTION
Scope and delivery model
In response to the need for data consolidation and standardization, a unified data platform based on the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem was designed and implemented. The solution connected previously dispersed data sources—including Snowflake and Power BI—into a single, coherent system providing full control and trust in organizational data.
The new platform was designed to accelerate decision-making and provide business users with direct access to up-to-date information without relying on IT teams. As a result, the data-to-insight cycle was significantly shortened, enabling real-time investment portfolio analysis.
The implementation also introduced a robust data governance framework, ensuring security, regulatory compliance, and transparency of analytical processes. The flexible cloud architecture ensures scalability and provides a foundation for the platform’s continued evolution toward full integration with enterprise-grade solutions.
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