Services
We solve operational problems that are costing your business money. Every solution is built from scratch around your specific situation — using Microsoft infrastructure you already own.
Every engagement is a bespoke build. No productised templates. Below — the surfaces we work across.
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Your team is probably handling processes manually that repeat daily, weekly or monthly. We identify the most expensive of these and eliminate them completely. The result is measurable salary cost recovery and capacity to grow without adding headcount.
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Most businesses make decisions based on reports that are already out of date by the time they are read. We connect your data sources and build real-time dashboards on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric that give your leadership team an accurate picture of the business at any moment.
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Your team works around limitations in your current systems every day — usually with spreadsheets or workarounds that create more manual work. We build custom applications fitted exactly to how your business operates — Canvas, Model-driven or the new pro-code Code Apps experience.
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Repetitive customer queries, document classification, quote management, approval routing — these are tasks that consume staff time but follow predictable rules. We deploy AI agents on Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot that handle this work automatically, around the clock.
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If your clients or partners submit documents, request information or track progress by emailing your team, there is a better way. We build branded self-service portals on Microsoft Power Pages and custom React stacks that remove your team from the middle of routine interactions.
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Most businesses run multiple systems that do not talk to each other — which means staff manually move data between them. We connect Sage, SQL Server, Dynamics, custom ERPs and SaaS via Power Automate, Azure Data Factory, Logic Apps and custom APIs so information flows automatically where it needs to go.
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Cloud flows (automated, instant, scheduled, Dataverse-event), attended and unattended desktop RPA on machine groups, child flows, parallel branches, try-catch-finally scopes, custom connectors (OpenAPI), on-premises data gateway, AI Builder, Process Mining, solutions and managed environments for ALM, Application Insights telemetry.
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Custom data models, DAX measures, DirectQuery and Import modes, Row Level Security, embedded analytics, paginated reports, real-time streaming datasets. Fabric OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Dataflows Gen2, Data Factory pipelines, Real-Time Intelligence and Direct Lake mode.
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Canvas apps for mobile and desktop, model-driven apps on Dataverse, the new pro-code Code Apps experience (React + TypeScript), custom connectors, SharePoint integration, offline capability, Power Fx logic, responsive design.
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Custom Copilot agents on Copilot Studio, autonomous agents on Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o / o-series), RAG on Azure AI Search, M365 Copilot extensions, declarative agents, Copilot connectors, prompt engineering, evaluations and content safety.
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External portal design on Microsoft Power Pages, Entra External ID integration, Dataverse table permissions, document upload workflows, multi-step forms, liquid templating, web templates, custom JavaScript and CSS branding.
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SQL Server integration, REST / SOAP / GraphQL APIs, legacy ERP connectors (Sage 300, Sage 200 Evolution, Sage X3, SYSPRO), Azure Data Factory, Logic Apps, Microsoft Fabric Data Factory, custom Azure Functions, on-premises data gateway, medallion lakehouse architecture.
About Preact
Preact is a South African data analytics and Microsoft Power Platform consultancy. We're a small team of senior consultants who design, build and hand over working systems on the Microsoft stack — Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio and Power Pages — integrated with the ERPs South African businesses actually run: Sage 200 Evolution, Sage 300, SYSPRO and Dynamics 365.
We're remote-first: we work over Microsoft Teams, directly inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant, so there's no waiting on travel schedules — and if your team would rather work side by side, we're happy to run workshops on-site at your offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and everywhere in between. Every engagement is bespoke — no productised dashboards, no reseller markup, no army of juniors.
Free, no-obligation business analysis. We do the digging.