Data Platforms

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Build a strong data platform that turns scattered information into trusted value. Paragon Micro brings the architecture, engineering, and governance to keep data reliable, usable, and ready to scale.

Data Platforms Solutions

End to end data platform coverage across lakehouse, warehouse, and integration estates, built with engineering discipline, governance, and reliability from day one.

Client OutcomeHow Paragon Micro Delivers

A large enterprise used an acquisition integration project to strengthen its data platform foundation, migrate business data, and improve collaboration across multiple tenants and subsidiaries.

The Situation

The customer needed to move users, mail, and documents from an acquired Google environment into its primary Microsoft tenant.
The customer also needed secure data access across Teams and SharePoint while supporting collaboration across multiple subsidiaries and business units.

The Outcome

Paragon Micro Solution Architects supported discovery, migration planning, source review, domain integration, cutover setup, testing, and documentation.
The customer gained a cleaner data foundation, improved source connectivity, stronger collaboration access, and a trusted path for future platform modernization.
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Components: Acquisition Integration | Google Cloud To Microsoft Migration | Mail Migration | Document Migration | Microsoft Tenant Integration | Intune | Autopilot | B2B Guest Access | Teams | SharePoint | BitTitan User Migration Bundle | Microsoft Licensing | Testing | Documentation

Customer Success Highlight

“Paragon Micro helped turn an acquisition integration challenge into a cleaner data platform foundation, giving our teams better access, stronger collaboration, and a trusted path for future modernization.”
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How We Help Build the Right Solution for You

Our data specialists turn fragmented sources, governance gaps, and platform complexity into a practical operating plan built around your data, workflows, and goals, without silos, rework, or a one-size-fits-all approach.

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FAQsPlatform Strategy & Architecture Selection

How do we select the right platform architecture at scale?

Start with the workloads, not the vendor. Review query patterns, data volume, latency needs, governance requirements, team skills, and cost model. Then choose the architecture your business can operate, scale, and govern long term.

When should a warehouse give way to a lakehouse pattern?

A lakehouse pattern makes sense when the business needs broader data types, lower storage friction, advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI readiness. A warehouse should stay where structured reporting, governance, and performance are already working well.

How do we align existing standards with modern platform architecture?

Map current standards to the new platform across access, metadata, quality, retention, naming, reporting, and controls. Keep what still works, improve what creates friction, and retire standards that no longer support the operating model.

FAQsData Engineering & Pipeline Design

How do we design pipelines for different business domains?

Define shared engineering standards first, then let each domain shape pipelines around its source systems, users, refresh needs, and data products. The goal is consistent operations without forcing every team into the same design.

How do we design pipelines for different business domains?

Create reusable patterns for ingestion, transformation, testing, monitoring, and deployment. Without standards, each new pipeline adds complexity, cost, and support risk.

Should monolithic ETL give way to domain oriented data products?

Yes, when teams need faster ownership, clearer accountability, and better reuse of trusted data. Domain-oriented data products work best when supported by shared platform standards, governance, and quality controls.

FAQsData Integration & Source Connectivity

How do we identify source dependencies before integration?

Trace source systems, owners, data refresh schedules, downstream reports, security rules, business logic, and failure points. Dependencies should be documented and tested before the source is connected to production workflows.

How do we onboard sources when downtime is not acceptable?

Use staged integration, parallel runs, validation windows, and rollback planning. Critical sources should be tested against production expectations before users depend on the new data flow.

What do we do when sources fail validation after onboarding?

Pause the rollout, isolate the source issue, compare source and target logic, and correct mappings, transformations, or timing gaps. Validation failures should trigger a controlled fix process, not manual workarounds.

FAQsData Quality, Observability & Lineage

Is the data quality program strategy or just reporting?

It should be a strategy. Reporting shows what went wrong. A real data quality program defines ownership, rules, monitoring, issue resolution, and prevention so trusted data becomes part of daily operations.

How do we unify quality monitoring across pipelines?

Use common checks, shared metrics, centralized observability, and clear ownership across all pipelines. Teams should see quality issues early, understand business impact, and know who is responsible for fixing them.

Is full data lineage realistic or over engineered?

Lineage is realistic when it focuses on critical data, regulated workflows, executive reporting, and AI inputs first. Trying to map everything at once creates noise. Start where trust and risk matter most.

FAQsCost Management & Performance

How do we turn cost recommendations into action?

Assign every recommendation to an owner, a workload, a budget, and a decision path. Cost optimization works when it becomes part of platform operations, not a report reviewed once a quarter.

How do we size compute without overcommitting?

Use workload history, peak demand, concurrency, growth forecasts, and performance targets. Compute should align with proven usage and business priorities, not oversized assumptions.

How do we make cost allocation change platform behavior?

Show spend by team, workload, platform, and outcome. When teams understand what they consume and what it costs, platform behavior becomes easier to manage.

FAQsSecurity, Access & Governance

How do we unify access policy enforcement without disruption?

Start with baseline roles, data classification, approval paths, and monitoring. Then phase policy enforcement by risk level, so access improves without breaking critical workflows.

How do we handle multiple compliance frameworks without duplicate controls?

Map each framework to a shared control library. One strong control should support multiple requirements, reducing duplicate work and making audit evidence easier to manage.

How do we keep access baselines current as the platform evolves?

Review roles, permissions, data movement, service accounts, and policy exceptions on a set schedule. Access governance should evolve with the platform, not trail behind it.

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