Past event
Fabric, from the people running it
A Tallinn Data Week morning organised by Sparkle Solutions, with the community invited. Äripäev and NabuMinds spoke about their move to Microsoft Fabric.
- Date
- 09:00 to 13:00
- Venue
- Palo Alto Club, Telliskivi 57, 10412 Tallinn
- Organiser
- Sparkle Solutions
- Language
- in English
Recording
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Agenda
Doors open, coffee
Welcome
Fabric in 2026: what it's worth, what it costs, what to decide first
Pieter Jansen (Sparkle Solutions)
Qlik to Fabric at Äripäev: the method, and where AI actually helped
Liis Rush (Äripäev)
Several businesses, several source systems and several versions of every customer, all reported in Qlik. Liis showed how a small part-time team is moving it all to Microsoft Fabric: what to migrate first, how to untangle one customer across many systems, and how to prove the new reports match the old. Then came the AI story: why written standards come before any assistant, where AI sped things up and where it confidently got it wrong.
Coffee break
NabuMinds: from an existing platform to Fabric, and what came next
Aaron Lee Amarga (NabuMinds)
Aaron explained why NabuMinds moved its existing platform to Microsoft Fabric, how its own team took over running it after a short kickstart, and where dbt fits. In his view Fabric goes beyond reporting: a Fabric data agent answers business questions and Real-Time Intelligence watches live data, which saves money by catching critical issues early.
Fabric IQ: the company brain
Pieter Jansen (Sparkle Solutions)
AI agents are only as smart as the business context you give them. Fabric IQ lets you describe your business, its customers, products and how they relate, on top of your data. Pieter explained what it is and what it takes, and showed a live example of an agent answering questions across the business.
Meet the experts: one-minute intros to the demo corners
Lunch with demo and expert corners
Anneli Tomingas (Sparkle Solutions)
Over lunch, guests walked between Sparkle Solutions' demo corners, with short demos at 11:45, 12:10 and 12:35. The programme listed Fabric data agent (ask your data questions in plain language), Real-Time Intelligence (live data, live dashboards, automatic alerts), calibrating agent models (getting an agent to give the right answer, and measuring it) and capacity management (what is using your Fabric capacity, and how to measure it).
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