Seddon Plant & Engineers Ltd
Seddon Engineering Group
Retail B2B & B2C
Seddon Plant & Engineers Ltd are suppliers of Construction, Groundcare & Environmental products. We also offer a full service back up for a range of manufacturers including the sourcing and distribution of Spare Parts throughout the UK
Seddons Plant & Engineering, a leading distributor of plant machinery and equipment, needed a modern data platform to unify their growing volumes of operational and sales data. Their existing systems made it difficult to gain real-time insights across multiple business dimensions like sales channels, reps, territories, cost centres, and management types.
Data was spread across different sources and required significant manual effort to produce consistent reporting. As the business expanded, it became critical to improve data governance, accelerate decision-making, and enable more detailed slicing of performance data — such as week-on-week, month-on-month, year-on-year, by sales rep, manager, or order type.
After reviewing Seddons’ challenges, The Data Crew proposed the adoption of Microsoft Fabric — the new unified data and analytics platform from Microsoft.
Microsoft Fabric offered a perfect fit: a fully integrated solution combining data ingestion, storage, transformation, and visualisation in a single, governed environment. Fabric’s OneLake unified storage, Lakehouse architecture, and Real-Time Analytics capabilities provided the scalability and simplicity Seddons needed to future-proof their reporting and analytics capabilities.
We architected and implemented a full Microsoft Fabric environment structured around two key workspaces:
Using a medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers):
ETL processes were orchestrated through Fabric Pipelines and Notebooks, leveraging Spark and SQL transformations.
We then built a centralised Semantic Model to abstract data complexity and deliver a consistent, unified view for all users, supporting slicing by rep, territory, management type, order channel, and more.
Beyond implementation, we ensured Seddons’ internal teams were equipped for long-term success:
We built not just a data platform — but an environment Seddons can own, adapt, and expand as their needs grow.
The new Microsoft Fabric data platform for Seddons Plant & Engineering has:
Seddons can now quickly slice their performance data across multiple dimensions — delivering faster, more accurate insights that drive smarter business decisions.
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