Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired Osmos and announced it would be folded into Microsoft Fabric. For organizations that depended on Osmos for external data collection and mapping, that announcement created an immediate question: what’s next?
The path forward isn’t one-size-fits-all. Microsoft Fabric is a powerful enterprise analytics platform, but for organizations whose core need is collecting and mapping data from external partners, members, or customers, it may represent far more complexity and cost than the problem actually requires. For many, the better question isn’t how to migrate to Fabric. It’s whether there’s a more targeted solution that solves the same problem, faster and at lower cost.
What to Look for in an Alternative
If your team relied on Osmos to give external users, partners, customers, members, suppliers, an easy way to submit and map data, the replacement you need should also focus on that experience. A few things worth prioritizing:
- Self-service for non-technical users. The value of a tool like Osmos was that business users could handle data mapping without much IT involvement. Any alternative should preserve that and ideally improve on it.
- Fast implementation. With an active transition underway, you don’t have quarters to spend on deployment. Look for a solution with a proven track record of going live in weeks.
- No infrastructure overhaul. The right tool should fit into your existing environment, not require you to rebuild your data stack around it.
- Right-sized cost. If you need targeted data onboarding, you shouldn’t be paying for a full-scale analytics platform to get it.
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A Purpose-Built Solution, Ready to Go
Adeptia Automate was purpose-built to solve the First-Mile Data™ challenge: enabling organizations to collect, map, and integrate data from external partners, customers, and members, with a self-service experience that empowers non-technical users to handle any level of data complexity without IT support.
Adeptia Automate’s Intelligent Data Automation™ solves the data onboarding problem specifically, which means faster deployment, a lower barrier to adoption, and a user experience designed around the people actually doing the work.
Proven Success: A Customer Is Already Live
When the Osmos news broke, a leading national healthcare association needed a replacement quickly. The organization collects incident data from hospitals and clinics across the U.S. and Canada, submitted by facility staff who are not data engineers. The priority was finding a solution that preserved that non-technical experience without forcing a complex migration.
They chose Adeptia Automate. Within two months, the organization was fully live. Their member facilities can log in, upload data files, map to a standard format, and submit, all without technical assistance. The customer noted that Adeptia Automate delivered superior capability for non-technical users compared to what Osmos had offered.
That’s the kind of transition that’s repeatable, and we’re ready to do it again.
If your team is weighing its options, we’re happy to walk through your use case.