Technical Whitepaper: Financial Data Hardening on Microsoft Fabric
This whitepaper provides the implementation blueprint finance leaders and platform owners use to deploy a governed, tenant-isolated financial data foundation on Microsoft Fabric.
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1. Reference Architecture
- Tenant-isolated ingestion from SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, and Oracle.
- Bronze, silver, and gold layering for auditability and governed analytics.
- Power BI semantic model design for CFO-ready metric consistency.
2. Data Hardening Controls
- Supplier deduplication controls with confidence scoring and merge lineage.
- Duplicate payment anomaly checks before board or lender reporting.
- Working capital metric normalization across business units and entities.
3. Security and Governance
- Private endpoints, RBAC, managed identities, and key management patterns.
- Purview lineage and policy mapping for regulated finance environments.
- Role-based distribution model for executive, controller, and analyst views.
4. Delivery Timeline
Typical implementation: 10 weeks from discovery to production analytics, with first validated insights in week 2.
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