Playbook
Our data is spread across three legacy systems and we need one platform
A new Chief Data Officer has inherited an estate with old Synapse pools, scattered Databricks workspaces, and a Power BI tenant that no one governs. The board wants one platform for the next five years and a clear route from "many tools" to "one trustworthy place".
Trigger — Board sponsorship; consolidation budget approved.
Good outcome — All data flows into one platform with one set of governance rules. Reports, machine learning, and dashboards run on the same trusted data, and Finance no longer pays for three overlapping toolsets.