One governed lakehouse for your entire firm.
Microsoft Fabric Datalake unifies your DMS, practice management, billing, and CRM data into a single OneLake lakehouse — governed once, reported on everywhere, and ready to power AI when you are.
Built for regulated industries
Your firm's data lives in five systems that don't talk to each other.
Documents sit in iManage or NetDocuments. Matters and billing live in Aderant, Elite 3E, or ProLaw. Relationships live in your CRM. Getting a single answer to "how profitable is this practice group" means an analyst manually reconciling exports in Excel — and by the time it's done, the numbers are already stale.
Microsoft Fabric Datalake gives your firm one governed OneLake lakehouse instead. Every system feeds it, every report reads from it, and it's ready to serve as the foundation for AI the moment you need it.
Single source of truth
Every system's data lands in one OneLake lakehouse instead of a dozen exports and pivot tables.
Governed at the source
Purview and row-level security tie data access to the Entra ID roles your firm already manages.
AI and reporting ready
The same governed data layer feeds Power BI dashboards today and self-hosted AI tomorrow.
One lakehouse. Every source system.
Purpose-built for law firm data — not a generic data warehouse migration.
OneLake Lakehouse
A single, open (Delta Parquet) copy of your firm's data — no more duplicated exports living in five different tools.
Prebuilt DMS & PMS Connectors
Data Factory pipelines that pull from iManage, NetDocuments, Aderant, Elite 3E, and ProLaw on a schedule you control.
Medallion Architecture
Bronze, silver, and gold layering turns raw exports into clean, business-ready tables without hand-built ETL scripts.
Power BI Direct Lake Reporting
Executive dashboards query OneLake directly — no import refresh lag, no duplicated semantic models.
Purview Governance & Sensitivity Labels
Client and matter confidentiality rules follow the data automatically, from ingestion through to a partner's dashboard.
Entra ID-Based Row-Level Security
Associates see associate-level data, partners see partner-level data — enforced at the data layer, not per-report.
AI-Ready Data Layer
The same governed lakehouse becomes the data foundation for Self-Hosted AI, Copilot, or custom model fine-tuning.
Real-Time Pipelines
Eventstream and scheduled Data Factory pipelines keep billing, realization, and utilization numbers current, not month-old.
Right-Sized Fabric Capacity
We size and monitor your Fabric capacity (F-SKU) so reporting workloads don't blow through your Microsoft budget.
From five systems to one governed lakehouse.
A proven build process designed around legal operations and finance teams, not just IT.
- 01
Discovery & Data Mapping
We inventory every system holding firm data — DMS, PMS, CRM, billing, timekeeping — and map source fields to a target model.
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OneLake Provisioning & Security Model
We stand up your Fabric workspace and capacity, and configure the Entra ID-based security model that governs who sees what.
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Pipeline Development — Bronze Layer
Data Factory pipelines connect each source system and land raw data into bronze tables on a schedule you control.
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Transformation — Silver & Gold Layers
We clean, conform, and model the data into business-ready tables: matter profitability, realization, utilization, and more.
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Semantic Model & Power BI Dashboards
We build the firm-wide semantic model and executive and practice-group dashboards on Power BI Direct Lake.
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Governance, Training & Go-Live
Purview sensitivity labels are applied, your analysts and IT team are trained, and we go live with ongoing pipeline monitoring.
Real use cases. Real results.
What finance, operations, and IT teams do with the lakehouse on day one.
Firm-wide profitability in one dashboard, not five spreadsheets.
Billing data from your PMS and matter data from your DMS combine into a single profitability view by practice group, office, or partner — no manual reconciliation.
See realization trends by practice group as they happen.
Scheduled pipelines keep billing and collections data current, so leadership sees trends in near real time instead of waiting for month-end exports.
Comp committees get clean, reconciled numbers automatically.
The gold-layer tables that feed dashboards are the same numbers compensation committees rely on — no separate reconciliation project every cycle.
The same lakehouse can power your Self-Hosted AI deployment.
Clean, permissioned data in OneLake is exactly what retrieval-augmented search and fine-tuning need — so your AI initiative isn't starting from a blank slate.
Built on the Microsoft data platform you already license.
No third-party data warehouse. No separate vendor relationship to manage.
Frequently Asked Questions
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