A Lakehouse is a modern data storage and management system that combining the best features of data lakes and data warehouses. A Lakehouse is a virtual data warehouse where data is stored in Parquet file storage and a SQL endpoint is provided to enable querying of the stored data. A Lakehouse can store structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.

A Lakehouse is a modern data storage and management system that combining the best features of data lakes and data warehouses. A Lakehouse is a virtual data warehouse where data is stored in Parquet file storage and a SQL endpoint is provided to enable querying of the stored data. A Lakehouse can store structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.

A Lakehouse allows you to keep a single copy of data for reporting, analytics, and AI thus eliminating the need for separate warehouse and lake environments.

Lakehouses use open standards such as Delta Lake, enabling portability between platforms and preventing vendor lock‑in.

Medallion architecture is an approach to organising data into layers of Bronze (raw, dirty data), Silver (cleaned, validated, fixed, integrated and transformed data) and Gold (high quality, curated data ready for reporting and analysis). An approach that lends itself to implementing performant BI and Data Analytics solutions with appropriate data governance, compliance and security for a secure, trustworthy single source of truth dataset.

Medallion architecture is an approach to organising data into layers of Bronze (raw, dirty data), Silver (cleaned, validated, fixed, integrated and transformed data) and Gold (high quality, curated data ready for reporting and analysis). An approach that lends itself to implementing performant BI and Data Analytics solutions with appropriate data governance, compliance and security for a secure, trustworthy single source of truth dataset.

When you partner with us, you gain access to the decades of collective experience of our entire team to support you in making the most of your people, data, and technology. Our collaborative approach and absolute commitment to transparency, knowledge sharing, and client owned solutions, means we very much work with you rather than for you, and we would like you to see us as an extension of your team. The Return on Investment can often be directly compared to that of recruiting an internal hire - by working with us, the knowledge and skills of our whole team are there on tap, as much or little resource as you need, with little or no long-term commitment. Once you have matured your capability, it may well be that we can support you recruiting that internal hire a little further down the line.

When you partner with us, you gain access to the decades of collective experience of our entire team to support you in making the most of your people, data, and technology. Our collaborative approach and absolute commitment to transparency, knowledge sharing, and client owned solutions, means we very much work with you rather than for you, and we would like you to see us as an extension of your team. The Return on Investment can often be directly compared to that of recruiting an internal hire - by working with us, the knowledge and skills of our whole team are there on tap, as much or little resource as you need, with little or no long-term commitment. Once you have matured your capability, it may well be that we can support you recruiting that internal hire a little further down the line.

Data Governance covers areas such as security, integrity, policy, agreements and anything that may impact the availability and use of your data. Some data governance rules may be enforced through legal regulations whereas others may be based on internal policy decisions. Poor data governance can lead to data breaches and all the legal and business challenges that goes with such incidents.

Data Governance covers areas such as security, integrity, policy, agreements and anything that may impact the availability and use of your data. Some data governance rules may be enforced through legal regulations whereas others may be based on internal policy decisions. Poor data governance can lead to data breaches and all the legal and business challenges that goes with such incidents.

By consolidating organisational data into a single governed storage layer, the Lakehouse ensures consistent, trustworthy data for BI, AI, analytics, and operational workloads.

A unified, well‑governed, high‑quality dataset foundation provides the ideal input for LLMs, machine learning models, and AI applications.

Self‑service tools built on top of central, trusted, governed data enable business users and analysts to create insights without reliance on IT bottlenecks.

Fabric enables the ingestion of raw data into a Bronze Lakehouse, refined and enriched data into Silver, and fully modelled reporting‑ready data into Gold repositories. These layers help ensure data quality, governance, and performance across an organisation's reporting estate.

Fabric enables the ingestion of raw data into a Bronze Lakehouse, refined and enriched data into Silver, and fully modelled reporting‑ready data into Gold repositories. These layers help ensure data quality, governance, and performance across an organisation's reporting estate.

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Modern solution for Single Source of Truth repositories

Lakehouses are the modern solution for Single Source of Truth (SSOT) repositories to serve all data analytics, BI and AI needs.

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner Data & AI Azure we are well placed to advise on all things data and help you navigate your way through design and implementation of a robust modern data platform and Lakehouse based repository. The following article, Single Source of Truth Repository - Where should it be?, explains what a SSOT is and will help you to determine if a data warehouse is right for you.

We follow the modern approach of Medallion Architecture when approaching Lakehouse design projects, organising your data into three core layers:

Bronze - raw, dirty, untampered with data
Silver - cleansed, transformed and integrated data
Gold - curated Single Source of Truth data ready for AI and BI consumption

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Lakehouse?

Why should organisations adopt a Lakehouse‑first strategy?

What makes the Lakehouse architecture future‑proof?

What Is Medallion Architecture?

What are the benefits of working with a consultancy like PTR?

What is Data Governance?

How does a Lakehouse improve data reliability?

How does a Lakehouse accelerate AI and advanced analytics?

How does the Lakehouse empower business users?

How does Fabric support the Medallion Architecture?