Publicis Sapient Recognized as a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner

Publicis Sapient has expanded its Microsoft data and analytics credentials, earning the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization and being named a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner. These recognitions reflect our ability to help enterprises modernize complex data estates, accelerate analytics transformation, and establish AI-ready foundations on Microsoft Azure.

Enterprises today face increasing pressure to extract value from fragmented, legacy data environments. Microsoft Fabric addresses this challenge by unifying data engineering, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence on a single, integrated platform. As a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, Publicis Sapient has demonstrated real world success helping organizations adopt Microsoft Fabric to simplify their data landscape, improve data trust, speed decision making, and deploy AI-ready data foundations. 

The Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization further validates Publicis Sapient’s depth in delivering analytics solutions at enterprise scale. This designation is awarded only to partners that meet Microsoft’s highest standards for customer success, advanced technical certifications, and audited delivery excellence across the Assess, Design, Deployment, and Test stages for analytics solutions built on Microsoft Fabric.

To achieve this specialization, Publicis Sapient successfully completed an audit conducted by an independent third-party auditor. The audit evaluated not only technical delivery rigor, but also how Publicis Sapient enables clients through solution documentation and post-deployment knowledge transfer. Publicis Sapient demonstrated audited evidence through production grade implementations delivered across multiple industry verticals. 

At a leading Energy organization, Publicis Sapient implemented an enterprise analytics platform on Microsoft Fabric to consolidate Operational Technology (OT) and IT data for wind and solar assets into a single, unified environment. The solution leveraged OneLake, Fabric Lakehouses and Warehouses, Fabric Data Factory pipelines, notebooks, Dataflows, and Power BI as the primary analytics front end—enabling improved asset visibility, operational insight, and decision making at scale.

For a leading Hospitality organization, Publicis Sapient addressed highly fragmented, brand level data systems by implementing a Fabric based data platform that enabled cross brand insights and reporting. As part of a broader greenfield transformation, the client later transitioned its CRM platform to Microsoft Dynamics, resulting in a unified Microsoft ecosystem. The solution consolidated disparate data silos into a secure, intelligent data platform on Microsoft Fabric, established a direct data pipeline from Dynamics CRM, and with Microsoft Purview to provide centralized governance and data trust.

“Our clients need to simplify their data platforms while moving faster with analytics and AI,” said John Weston, Senior Vice President, Global Microsoft Practice, Publicis Sapient. “These recognitions confirm that we bring both the platform expertise and the execution experience required to deliver real business outcomes with Microsoft Fabric and Azure.”

What sets Publicis Sapient apart is our ability to accelerate legacy application & data modernization—not just platform adoption. Through Sapient Slingshot, our AI powered modernization platform, we help automate and derisk the transition from legacy data warehouses, ETL tools, and custom code to modern, data architectures—enabling faster timelines, higher quality, and lower risk as organizations modernize their data and analytics estates.

Publicis Sapient helps organizations transition from siloed, legacy data platforms to unified analytics environments built on Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Our teams combine deep Microsoft expertise with strong industry context to reduce technical debt, modernize data architectures, and unlock value faster across analytics, reporting, and AI use cases. 

Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services. With over 30 years of digital business transformation experience, we enable enterprise clients to transform how they operate and serve their customers, unlocking new value and enabling them to thrive in an AI-driven world. Our platforms Sapient Slingshot,  Sapient Bodhi and Sapient Sustain use AI built off this deep enterprise context to help organizations modernize their legacy tech systems, build agentic solutions, and automate their IT operations.  The combination of our AI platforms and the expertise of our people enables us to deliver faster and more effective outcomes through solutions that are specific to the unique needs of our clients’ businesses, their industries and their customers.  Publicis Sapient is the technology hub of Publicis Groupe, uniting 20,000 people worldwide across 28 countries. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.

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