11 December 2024 TimeXtender Simplifies End-to-End Microsoft Fabric Deployments on SQL Database Share this message TimeXtender now enables seamless, end-to-end deployments on Microsoft Fabric’s SQL Database, empowering organizations to handle diverse data needs efficiently. By integrating with Microsoft Fabric, TimeXtender streamlines data ingestion, transformation, and delivery while ensuring robust governance, compliance, and performance. Seamless Data Integration and Transformation TimeXtender’s low-code platform automates the data lifecycle with three key components: 1. Data Ingestion Effortlessly consolidate raw data from various sources into Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake. With automated workflows, TimeXtender optimizes scheduling and dependency management, ensuring efficient and reliable data ingestion from cloud, on-premises, or custom sources. 2. Data Preparation and Transformation Leverage minimal coding to cleanse, validate, and enrich data, perform advanced calculations, and build dimensional models. TimeXtender creates a single source of truth, supporting scalable analytics and consistent insights across the organization. 3. Semantic Layer Delivery Easily create version-controlled semantic models that connect directly to tools like Power BI, Qlik, and Tableau. This intuitive layer ensures full data lineage and facilitates faster decision-making through shared data understanding. Optimizing Microsoft Fabric Deployments TimeXtender accelerates Microsoft Fabric adoption by combining advanced automation with SQL Database support, delivering: AI-Driven Code Generation: Automates transformation scripts for faster development. Cost Optimization: Reduces consumption unit (CU) costs with efficient code tailored to Microsoft Fabric. Lifecycle Orchestration: Unifies ingestion, transformation, and visualization workflows. Data Quality Controls: Ensures accuracy and reliability at every stage. Secure and Scalable Workflows: Employs metadata-driven automation to protect sensitive data. Accelerated Deployment and Savings TimeXtender helps organizations implement Microsoft Fabric up to 10 times faster, cutting costs by 70–80% and simplifying transitions from traditional systems. With its user-friendly interface, it bridges skill gaps and supports rapid deployment of lakehouses, SQL databases, and analytics solutions tailored to business needs. Flexible, Future-Ready Architectures TimeXtender’s dual-path approach—supporting both SQL Database and Lakehouse deployments in Microsoft Fabric—offers: Deployment Flexibility: Choose the architecture that suits your needs today while ensuring seamless transitions as priorities evolve. Cost and Performance Optimization: Benchmark and adjust deployments for efficiency. Effortless Migration: Develop once and switch between SQL Database and Lakehouse models without rebuilding. This adaptable strategy ensures your data architecture evolves alongside your business, delivering efficiency, scalability, and lasting performance. More about TimeXtender: Data Integration Master Data Management Data Quality Orchestration TimeXtender How can we help? Whether something’s still unclear or you’re ready to take the next step, Barry and Eric are happy to talk it through. Email us, call us, or book a meeting at a time that works for you. Call us Mail us 25 August 2026 Your semantic layer is becoming the API for AI Semantic layers are not new, but AI is giving them a new role. Where they once primarily powered dashboards, semantic models are increasingly becoming the layer that provides AI with reliable business context. AI Data Governance Microsoft Fabric Qlik Semantic Layer TimeXtender 20 August 2026 Generic OAuth redirect URIs for agentic IDEs You can now configure Native OAuth clients with redirect URLs beyond just http and https, enhancing integration with AI-powered IDEs like Cursor and Kiro. Tenant Admins can manage these settings in Administration > OAuth, allowing for more flexible configurations. New Release Qlik 19 August 2026 View Direct Access gateway benchmark results in Administration activity center The Direct Access gateway now displays benchmark test results in the Administration activity center, enhancing transparency for administrators regarding gateway performance. This feature allows users to troubleshoot reload performance and assess network conditions without the need to access log files. Direct Access gateway version 1.7.17 is required for this functionality. New Release Qlik
25 August 2026 Your semantic layer is becoming the API for AI Semantic layers are not new, but AI is giving them a new role. Where they once primarily powered dashboards, semantic models are increasingly becoming the layer that provides AI with reliable business context. AI Data Governance Microsoft Fabric Qlik Semantic Layer TimeXtender
20 August 2026 Generic OAuth redirect URIs for agentic IDEs You can now configure Native OAuth clients with redirect URLs beyond just http and https, enhancing integration with AI-powered IDEs like Cursor and Kiro. Tenant Admins can manage these settings in Administration > OAuth, allowing for more flexible configurations. New Release Qlik
19 August 2026 View Direct Access gateway benchmark results in Administration activity center The Direct Access gateway now displays benchmark test results in the Administration activity center, enhancing transparency for administrators regarding gateway performance. This feature allows users to troubleshoot reload performance and assess network conditions without the need to access log files. Direct Access gateway version 1.7.17 is required for this functionality. New Release Qlik