Insights

Getting the foundations right with Microsoft Purview

One51 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Purview can deliver on its promise of a unified data governance platform, but some early architectural decisions are harder to unwind than they look. Here is what is worth thinking through before you start.

AI Harnesses: Turning Model Intelligence Into Business Outcomes

One51 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT

For most of the generative AI cycle, AI products were essentially chat interfaces. You opened a window, asked a question, and the model replied. In that world, the obvious path to improvement was waiting for a better model. Better reasoning, larger context windows and stronger instruction-following all translated directly into a better user experience.

Microsoft Fabric alongside a legacy platform: Where to start

One51 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Most organisations don’t get to start with a blank slate. A full migration from a legacy data platform to Fabric is a significant commitment, and often the appetite simply isn’t there yet. So how do you start getting value from Fabric today, without waiting for a migration that may never come?

Building trust and increasing usership for a self-serve reporting platform

One51 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Every BI team eventually faces the same question from their users:“Where does this data actually come from?”

Unlocking Utility Graph Network Intelligence with Databricks + GraphFrames

One51 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Utilities have spent decades building reliable Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as systems of record to capture assets as they exist in the field. These GIS platforms are highly effective in supporting operational monitoring and day-to-day management of the network. However, modern grid management now requires grid-level analysis across connected assets, not just operational reporting. They now require the capability to compute, validate, and reason over the network at scale—covering its present state, how it has evolved over time, and how it may evolve in the future. This shift moves GIS beyond a static system of record, positioning it as the foundation for network intelligence within utilities.

WEEKLY AI NEWS – 22 May 2026

One51 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT

1. Databricks Genie Powers Industry Solutions

Why we picked this: Pinned as priority: published by Databricks (priority topic for our team).

The manual processes holding property operators back, and how AI is changing that

One51 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Why property is primed for AI, and why most efforts stall

Property operators in 2026 are not short of data. Buildings generate it continuously: maintenance requests, lease events, utility readings, inspection records, contractor updates, compliance obligations. The problem is rarely volume. The problem is that this data sits across disconnected systems, reconciled manually, and rarely assembles into a clear picture in time to act on it.

How Infrastructure as Code Enabled a Smarter Energy Network

One51 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:26:07 GMT

Being part of the modern energy market comes with huge challenges. It is not about managing a few centralised energy sources and providing power in one direction anymore, the network is decentralised in millions of Distributed Energy Resources, renewables, rooftop solar panels, home batteries and electric vehicles. Energy flows in two ways: scalable cloud computing is often required to ingest and process the amount of telemetry data provided by IoT devices, smart meters, sensors and automated substations to assist in predictive maintenance, forecasting and end user applications that showcase daily energy consumption and costs. The hyper-volatility of the energy market demands constant updates on energy trading platforms and a digitized grid requires cyber security, compliance with regulatory frameworks and disaster recovery capabilities.

Manual intervention alone is no longer sufficient. Delays in provisioning can lead to operational and financial impacts, dissatisfied customers and even outages. Underlying technology has become critical to grid reliability and performance. It is increasingly difficult to meet modern standards without automation.

Laying the groundwork for a modern energy platform

Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solve these issues by providing a framework that automates the provisioning of infrastructure through reusable templatesfollowing enterprise policies, best practices and reference architectures. This provides a solution featuring:

Speed: infrastructure provisioning can be reduced from days or weeks to minutes as there is no need to deploy resources by hand, the same applies to their decommissioning.
Reliability: recovery can be accelerated through automated redeployment.
Auditability: supports auditability and contributes to compliance requirements.
Security: policies are embedded in code, so it reduces the risk of misconfiguration through policy-driven deployment.
Error mitigation: as templates follow the standard testing procedures before release, no infrastructure settings are configured by hand and chances of human error are greatly reduced.

From cloud to code: bringing the platform to life

Following the diagram, the flow is comprised of:

Source Control and Continuous Integration: The Terraform code for the resource modules, variables and configurations (IaC) is committed to the Azure DevOps repository. Versioning is handled by the platform using Git Tag commits pushed by the developers, these ensure what is promoted to production.
Orchestration and State (Terraform Cloud): TFC is in control of the different workspaces for the development, staging and production environments. It also stores the state file, tracking the current and desired state of infrastructure in Azure and helping prevent conflicting changes through state management and locking.
CI/CD Flow: a plan is triggered in TFC on every commit, checking syntax errors and previewing changes on Azure (CI). In CD, an approved plan (manually or via tags) is then applied.
Deployment (Azure): using the Azure Resource Manager API, Terraform communicates with the Azure cloud to provision the physical infrastructure being managed.

It is important to mention as well that stacks are created in the Terraform Cloud to group different resources or modules that integrate an enterprise platform. This way it is possible to deploy a full solution through automated pipelines aligned with predefined company standards, policies, and configurations. These could be entire applications or data platforms that consist of compute, databases, networking, secret vaults and storage.

Turning infrastructure into competitive advantage

In summary, a shift from manual provisioning to IaC yields several benefits for an energy company:

Accelerated operational efficiency and time to market: speed improvements, elimination of bottlenecks and rapid scalability.
Enhanced reliability and business continuity: rapid disaster recovery and reducing the risk of financial and reputational impact through faster recovery.
Proactive risk mitigation and security: built-in cybersecurity and reduction of human error.
Streamlined compliance and governance: automated auditability and enforced standardization.

Partnering for transformation

Modern energy demands more than incremental change – it requires a step shift in how your infrastructure is designed, deployed, and managed.

At One51, we help organisations move from reactive, manual processes to scalable, automated, and resilient platforms using IaC with Terraform and Azure. Combining deep technical expertise with real-world delivery experience, we enable faster deployments, stronger governance, and infrastructure built to keep pace with your business.

Ready to modernise your infrastructure and unlock real operational impact?

Get in touch with our team to start the conversation and take the first step toward a more agile, secure, and future-ready platform. Contact us now.

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Data Products as Essential Infrastructure in Modern Energy Organisations

One51 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Across the Australian energy sector, the conversation has shifted.

The AI releases that will matter to energy businesses in 2026

One51 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Energy leaders don’t get the luxury of treating AI as a novelty.