NSW DCCEEW · Biodiversity Offset Scheme
DCCEEW brought scheme data onto Microsoft Fabric
A medallion data model replaced manual SSIS work and gave Power BI reports a curated Fabric source.
Project snapshot
Bring scheme data into a controlled reporting path
The NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water manages data for the Biodiversity Offset Scheme. Its published project record describes source files, legacy SSIS jobs, an on-premises warehouse, and separate Power BI workspaces.
“Data-Driven’s implementation based on Microsoft Fabric has now automated our data integration from various sources and set a foundation for a consolidated data estate long-term. We can now analyse our data more efficiently and make informed decisions faster. Further, our new Microsoft Fabric Data Platform has given us an excellent source for our key Power BI Reports and removed our dependencies on direct-to-source reporting. Data-Driven helped enable our transition to Microsoft Fabric and to discover, ingest and consolidate source data.”
Durvesh Chattopadhyay
Data Management, BOS Digital Transformation Team
Starting point
Source data and report work were spread across platforms
The published record ties the delay to both data movement and data quality work.
- SharePoint CSV and Excel files sat beside BOAMS and warehouse data.
- Legacy SSIS jobs and manual corrections added processing work.
- Separate Power BI workspaces depended on direct source connections.
- Consolidated reporting could take up to ten days, as recorded for this project.
Fabric data path
Each medallion layer had a clear data job
Nightly Fabric pipelines moved source data into OneLake. Fabric pipelines and notebooks then cleaned and joined it. Curated tables supplied the Power BI reports.
- Bronze kept raw SharePoint, BOAMS, and warehouse data in OneLake.
- Silver standardised names, dates, times, and lookup values.
- Gold held curated tables for scheme reports and analysis.
- Role-based access limited who could view or change records.
Published result
Data preparation fell below two hours
The timings below are recorded for this Biodiversity Offset Scheme engagement. They are not a benchmark for other Fabric projects.
10 days
Reported maximum delay for a consolidated report
<2 hrs
Reported end-to-end data preparation time
Nightly
Recorded pipeline schedule
Control boundary
The case records access design, not compliance
The project record names role-based access and curated data layers. It does not publish a compliance finding, security test, or certification.
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