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Ascent Technology offers end-to-end, cost effective, Enterprise Data Platform and Azure, Consulting and Support Services.

Johannesburg
Joined January 2011
Copilot is ready the day you switch it on. It reads whatever your permissions let it read – confidently, at speed. Readiness is the state of the data underneath, not the licence count. 🔗 ascent.tech/copilot-readines… #AscentTech #DataPlatformModernisation
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One lake. One copy of the data. One set of rules across every engine and every report. The platform exists – the discipline is counting the copies before you switch it on. 🔗 ascent.tech/solutions/azure-… #AscentTech #OneLake
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Three reports, one ERP, three revenue numbers. Look past the reports: six copies of the same data sit between the source and the screen. We call it the copy tax – and the platform to stop paying it already exists. 🔗 ascent.tech/microsoft-fabric… #AscentTech #MicrosoftFabric
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South Africa is debating where its data should live. September's breaches reached institutions whose systems were never touched – through copies held by suppliers. Residency answers where. Sovereignty answers who. 🔗 ascent.tech/data-sovereignty… #AscentTech #DataProtection
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SQL Server 2016 is out of support. Windows Server 2016 follows in January, SQL Server 2017 next October. The queue only ends on a platform with no version to queue for. 🔗 ascent.tech/solutions/azure-… #AscentTech #SQLServer
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Four Microsoft dates between July and February decide what your estate will cost next year. None of them will say so on the invoice. 🔗 ascent.tech/microsoft-licens… #AscentTech #MicrosoftCSP
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You cannot govern an estate you have not counted. A database health check is not a diagnostic – it is the count. 🔗 ascent.tech/solutions/databa… #AscentTech #DatabaseHealth
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King V made the board accountable for the data estate. A policy is not an answer – an inventory is. 🔗 ascent.tech/king-v-data-gove… #AscentTech #DataCompliance
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Any CSP can match a licence price. What a price list cannot tell you is who answers for the bill, the ticket and the architecture as one. One partner, one accountable line. 🔗 ascent.tech/products/cloud-p… #AscentTech #MicrosoftCSP
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Every SQL Server deadline funds a project that ships nothing new – real budget, months of testing, and if all goes perfectly, nothing changes. There is a version of that project you only ever run once. 🔗 ascent.tech/migrate-sql-serv… #AscentTech #SQLMigration
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Microsoft subsidised SQL Server deferral for a decade. That ended in July. Waiting is now metered, back-billed to day one – and it buys Critical fixes only, on no schedule. 🔗 ascent.tech/sql-server-exten… #AscentTech #SQLServer
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SQL Server 2016 is out of support, and for the first time in three cycles Azure is not a free exit. The deadline was published years ago. The repricing is the news. 🔗 ascent.tech/sql-server-2016-… #AscentTech #SQLServer2016
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A CSP that only moves licences is a reseller with a Microsoft badge. The better question is whether your CSP can read the architecture your licences run on. 🔗 ascent.tech/selecting-the-ri… #AscentTech #MicrosoftCSP
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You cannot buy your way out of a data problem with more Copilot licences. Readiness is a programme: govern what each use case touches, in the right order, before you switch it on. 🔗 ascent.tech/copilot-readines… #AscentTech #DataPlatformModernisation
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Every silo in your data estate is a tax on every decision that depends on it. Microsoft Fabric collapses that sprawl into one governed platform – and how you sequence the move matters more than the licence. 🔗 ascent.tech/from-complexity-… #AscentTech #MicrosoftFabric
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Copilot arrives knowing nothing about your business. It reads what your permissions let it reach, and answers with a confidence your data may not have earned. AI readiness is data readiness. 🔗 ascent.tech/ai-readiness-dat… #AscentTech #DataPlatform
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