Independent advisory for European mid-market firms modernizing off legacy platforms onto Databricks, Fabric, and ADF — without the two-year program and the big-consultancy overhead.
End-to-end migration off legacy warehouses onto Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or ADF — architecture, mapping, and cutover, not just a target diagram.
8–18 weeksCopilots and agentic workflows layered onto a Databricks or Fabric estate once the foundation is solid — scoped pilots, not moonshots.
Pilot to productionA modernization roadmap sequenced against your growth priorities, covering platform choice, ingestion patterns, and cost-to-serve.
4–8 weeksOngoing, CXO-level counsel on data strategy, platform decisions, and organizational design — on retainer, without the full-time cost.
RetainerLight-touch data governance and GDPR/DPDP alignment layered onto a modernization program, so compliance isn't an afterthought.
Fixed scopeA short set of stakeholder conversations and a review of your current data estate — legacy platforms, pipelines, and where the pain actually is.
Target platform assessed against your workloads — Databricks, Fabric, or ADF — benchmarked against 20+ years of migration delivery.
A phased, board-ready plan — sequencing quick wins against structural rebuilds, with clear ownership and cost-to-serve at every step.
Optional hands-on advisory through build and cutover, so the roadmap doesn't stall the moment the workshop ends.
Most AI pilots stall because they're bolted onto a data estate that isn't ready — fragmented sources, no lineage, unclear ownership.
We sequence it the other way: modernize the platform first, then layer copilots and agentic workflows on top, scoped to a use case that pays for itself.
The result is a pilot that can actually go to production, not a demo that stalls in committee.
Meridian Data Advisory is built on two decades of enterprise data strategy and modernization work across global systems integrators — spanning insurance, retail, healthcare, and financial services.
That includes delivering multiple legacy-to-modern migration programs onto Databricks, Fabric, and ADF, building cloud-native platforms that cut data delivery timelines by over a third, and standing up the governance and compliance layer around them when it's genuinely needed.
The work here is the same caliber, delivered directly — without the layers of a large consultancy in between.
Start with a 20-minute call. If a platform assessment is the right first step, we'll scope it there.