- Organisation
- Centrica Energy UK
- Predecessor
- a Power BI semantic model constrained by scale across fragmented finance, billing, trading and pricing data
- Destination
- Microsoft Fabric integrated with Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, HDInsight jobs and Power BI
- Workload
- finance, trading, profit-and-loss, risk, forecasting and reporting over billions of rows
- Stage
- Operational and deployed
- Retirement status
- The constrained reporting model was moved to Fabric; the source does not state that HDInsight, all legacy data platforms or parallel billing systems were retired.
- Confidence
- High
- Next trigger
- A dated cutover, formal retirement statement or material later implementation milestone.
Programme context
Centrica Energy UK moved its constrained finance semantic and reporting model onto Microsoft Fabric, creating a unified Fabric-backed platform for finance, trading, risk, forecasting and reporting.
Why this matters: This record identifies a named Irish or UK organisation, a bounded predecessor state, a destination platform, an affected workload and a source-stated operational stage.
Migration timeline
| Date or stage | Milestone | What changed | Evidence status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before migration | Scale-constrained reporting | A Power BI semantic model operated over fragmented finance, billing, trading and pricing data while billing systems ran in parallel. | Source-stated predecessor context |
| Operational state | Fabric-backed model deployed | Centrica deployed Microsoft Fabric for responsive finance reporting over the named data estate. | Source-stated operational state |
| 16 Jan 2025 | Dated source | Microsoft published the customer story. | Dated first-party evidence |
Workload migration matrix
| Workload | Predecessor | Destination | Status by 26 Jul 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| finance, trading, profit-and-loss, risk, forecasting and reporting over billions of rows | a Power BI semantic model constrained by scale across fragmented finance, billing, trading and pricing data | Microsoft Fabric integrated with Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, HDInsight jobs and Power BI | Operational and deployed |
Implementation and architecture
- Microsoft Fabric provides the destination semantic and reporting platform.
- Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory and HDInsight jobs remain named integration components.
- Power BI provides the reporting layer over the Fabric-backed model.
Known unknowns and contradictions
- The exact production cutover date.
- Whether any HDInsight workloads were retired.
- The completion state of the separate billing-system migration.
No missing fact is inferred to broaden the source-supported platform-change claim.
PlatformTrace analysis
This supports migration of the named finance semantic and reporting model and creation of a unified Fabric-backed finance-data platform. It does not establish replacement of every Centrica data platform, retirement of HDInsight or completion of the separate billing-system migration.
Performance, cost, uptime and operational outcomes remain attributed source claims unless independently stated otherwise.
Evidence ledger
- Centrica Energy UK — Microsoft customer story, 16 January 2025
Dated Microsoft customer story identifying the constrained finance model, Fabric destination, named data integrations and operational reporting state.
Approval: Issue #47 standing publication authority and the completed 26 July 2026 five-lane central filter.
Corrections and updates
26 July 2026 — Initial long-form Verified dossier published from the completed five-lane Ireland/UK intake and corrected central filter. Later milestones will be appended rather than silently replacing this state.