Client success stories

Zetta partners with AGER BI to provide specialist Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and data platform capability when client engagements require dedicated expertise beyond Zetta’s core delivery team.

The partnership combines Zetta’s established client relationships, account management and broader technology capability with AGER BI’s specialist Microsoft data and analytics expertise. This enables Zetta to expand the solutions it can offer clients without needing to maintain every specialist capability internally.

A recent engagement demonstrated the model in practice. For a Western Australian public-sector education organisation, Zetta engaged AGER BI to design and deliver a Microsoft Fabric and Power BI minimum viable product. Delivered over two weeks, the solution implemented a complete medallion architecture comprising Bronze and Silver Lakehouses, a curated Gold Warehouse, a governed Power BI semantic model and executive reporting.

Technology consultancies increasingly need access to specialist capabilities without necessarily maintaining every technical discipline within their permanent teams.

Microsoft Fabric is a good example. Delivering a successful Fabric engagement can require expertise spanning data architecture, data engineering, dimensional modelling, semantic modelling and Power BI. Building and maintaining that capability internally may not always make commercial sense, particularly when demand varies between clients and projects.

Zetta’s approach is to bring in specialist partners when doing so provides the best outcome for its clients.

AGER BI provides Zetta with specialist Microsoft data and analytics capability, supporting engagements requiring Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, data engineering, semantic modelling and modern analytics architecture.

Under the partnership model, Zetta maintains the overall client relationship and provides the broader engagement context, while AGER BI contributes specialist technical capability for the areas in which it has deep expertise.

This allows the organisations to operate as complementary partners rather than competing service providers.

The model was demonstrated through a recent engagement for a Western Australian public-sector education organisation. Zetta identified a requirement for a modern analytics platform and engaged AGER BI to provide the specialist Microsoft Fabric and Power BI delivery capability.

Within two weeks, AGER BI delivered an end-to-end MVP incorporating Bronze and Silver Lakehouses, a Gold Warehouse, a governed Power BI semantic model and executive reporting.

The engagement demonstrated how specialist capability can be incorporated into an existing client relationship while maintaining clear responsibilities, efficient delivery and a consistent experience for the end client.

IT service providers are regularly asked to solve technology problems extending beyond their permanent internal capabilities.

The traditional response is often to build a larger multidisciplinary team capable of covering every potential technology requirement. However, maintaining specialist capability across a rapidly evolving technology landscape can create significant cost and utilisation challenges.

Microsoft’s data platform is evolving particularly quickly.

Microsoft Fabric brings together data integration, engineering, warehousing, analytics and business intelligence within a unified SaaS platform. Delivering Fabric effectively requires more than familiarity with individual Microsoft products. It requires an understanding of how the platform’s components should be combined into a coherent, maintainable architecture.

For Zetta, the requirement was not simply access to another technical resource.

The objective was to have access to a trusted specialist who could be brought into appropriate client engagements, understand the business requirement, design the technical approach and take responsibility for delivering the Microsoft data and analytics components of the solution.

The model also needed to protect an important principle: Zetta owns the client relationship.

AGER BI therefore needed to operate as a specialist delivery partner within Zetta-led engagements rather than attempting to replace the broader relationship Zetta had established with its clients.

This created a delivery model based on complementary capability:

This approach enables Zetta to expand its available capability while avoiding the cost and utilisation risk associated with maintaining specialist resources for every technology discipline internally.

AGER BI provides Zetta with specialist capability across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and modern Microsoft data platforms.

The engagement model is deliberately flexible. AGER BI can support discovery and architecture, deliver defined data and analytics projects, or provide specialist assistance within a broader Zetta-led technology programme.

A recent two-week MVP provides a practical example of how the model works.

For a Western Australian public-sector education organisation, Zetta required specialist capability to demonstrate how Microsoft Fabric and Power BI could provide a modern analytics foundation.

AGER BI was engaged to design and implement the solution.

The delivered platform followed Microsoft’s medallion architecture and included:

The architecture separated ingestion, transformation, analytical modelling and presentation into controlled layers.

Rather than delivering an isolated dashboard, the engagement established a reusable Microsoft Fabric foundation that could be expanded as additional analytical requirements emerged.

The MVP used Microsoft Fabric as the central analytics platform and implemented a structured Bronze, Silver and Gold medallion architecture.

Source data was first landed in the Bronze Lakehouse, providing a controlled location for retaining source-level information.

The Silver Lakehouse provided the transformation layer. Data was cleansed, standardised and prepared into trusted analytical datasets before being promoted into the business-facing data model.

The Gold layer was implemented using a Fabric Warehouse containing dimensional fact and dimension structures optimised for analytics and Power BI.

A central Power BI semantic model was then created over the curated Gold data.

This produced a clear architectural flow:

Source Data → Bronze Lakehouse → Silver Lakehouse → Gold Warehouse → Power BI Semantic Model → Power BI Reporting

Each layer had a clearly defined responsibility.

The architecture avoided embedding complex transformation or business logic directly within individual report visuals. Instead, data preparation and analytical logic were implemented in the appropriate platform layers, improving maintainability and providing a stronger foundation for future development.

The data engineering component covered the complete journey from source ingestion through to reporting-ready analytical structures.

Source data was landed within the Bronze Lakehouse, preserving a controlled representation of the information supplied to the platform.

The Silver Lakehouse provided the trusted transformation layer.

Within Silver, data could be cleansed, standardised and conformed before being consumed by downstream analytical structures. This separation ensured that source-level data remained distinct from transformed datasets and prevented reporting requirements from becoming tightly coupled to raw source structures.

The Gold Warehouse provided the business-facing analytical layer.

Trusted Silver data was organised into dimensional structures designed specifically for reporting and analysis. Fact and dimension modelling provided a scalable foundation for aggregations, filtering, comparisons and drill-down within Power BI.

This layered architecture also provided traceability through the platform.

Rather than having transformation logic distributed across spreadsheets, individual Power BI files or report visuals, the solution established a controlled path from source data to decision-ready information.

The same architectural pattern can be reused across future Zetta client engagements requiring Microsoft Fabric analytics capability.

Power BI formed the analytical and presentation layer of the example solution.

A central semantic model was developed over the curated Gold Warehouse, providing a governed analytical interface between the underlying data platform and the reporting experience.

Relationships, dimensions, hierarchies and DAX measures were defined centrally rather than repeatedly within individual reports.

This approach provides several advantages.

Business calculations can be defined once and reused consistently. Future reports can consume the same governed model. Changes to underlying data structures can be managed without unnecessarily redesigning the reporting layer.

The Power BI report was designed to provide both executive-level information and deeper analytical exploration.

High-level summaries enabled users to understand the overall position quickly, while filtering and drill paths supported investigation into the underlying data.

The result was an integrated analytics experience spanning data ingestion, transformation, dimensional modelling, semantic modelling and visualisation.

Governance was considered throughout the solution architecture rather than being treated solely as a reporting concern.

The medallion design provided clear separation between source data, transformed data and reporting-ready structures.

Bronze retained source-level information.

Silver contained cleansed and standardised analytical datasets.

Gold contained curated business-facing structures.

Power BI then provided the governed semantic and reporting layers.

This architecture establishes natural control points for data quality, transformation logic, business rules and access.

Microsoft Fabric and Power BI also provide an integrated Microsoft platform through which security and access can be managed using the organisation’s existing Microsoft identity environment.

Where required, the architecture can be extended with additional controls such as row-level security, workspace access policies and audience-specific reporting without requiring separate copies of the underlying solution.

An important element of the Zetta and AGER BI model is that specialist delivery remains integrated with the broader client engagement.

AGER BI does not operate as an unrelated technical subcontractor working independently of the client relationship.

Instead, Zetta and AGER BI collaborate throughout the engagement.

Zetta provides the broader client context and maintains responsibility for the relationship, while AGER BI focuses on the specialist data and analytics outcome.

For the example Microsoft Fabric MVP, this included regular review and demonstration points throughout the two-week delivery period.

Architecture, data engineering, semantic modelling and reporting were progressively validated as the solution developed.

This enabled issues and decisions to be addressed during implementation rather than being deferred until the end of the project.

The result was a focused delivery model combining Zetta’s client knowledge with AGER BI’s specialist technical capability.

The partnership provides Zetta with a practical mechanism for extending its data and analytics capability when specialist expertise is required.

Rather than maintaining permanent internal capability across every Microsoft data technology, Zetta can bring AGER BI into suitable engagements and scale specialist delivery according to client demand.

Key benefits of the model include:

The two-week Microsoft Fabric MVP demonstrated the model in practice.

Zetta maintained the broader client relationship while AGER BI delivered the specialist technical solution, resulting in a working end-to-end analytics platform within a focused delivery timeframe.

The Zetta and AGER BI relationship combines complementary capabilities.

Zetta provides:

AGER BI provides:

Together, the model allows clients to access specialist capability while retaining a consistent relationship with their established technology partner.

The example engagement demonstrated specialist delivery across Microsoft’s modern analytics stack, including:

AGER BI provides specialist Microsoft data and analytics capability to organisations and technology partners requiring senior expertise without building a large permanent delivery team.

For Zetta, the partnership provides access to specialist Microsoft Fabric and Power BI capability that can be incorporated into existing client engagements when required.

AGER BI’s founder-led delivery model combines architecture and implementation rather than separating solution design from hands-on technical delivery.

This is particularly suited to focused analytics engagements where experienced technical judgement is required alongside rapid implementation.

The partnership with Zetta demonstrates another way AGER BI can work with the Australian technology ecosystem.

AGER BI does not need to own every end-client relationship. Instead, it can complement established technology providers by supplying specialist capability where required, operating within the partner’s broader engagement model and respecting the partner’s ownership of the client relationship.

The result is a flexible model in which Zetta can extend its Microsoft data and analytics capability, AGER BI can focus on specialist delivery, and clients receive the combination of an established technology partner and dedicated Microsoft data expertise.

AGER BI specialises in Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and modern data platform solutions for Australian organisations.

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