Most software and service organizations have the data they need, but it lives across disconnected systems, spreadsheets, and workflows. That makes reporting slow, AI unreliable, and customer-facing insight hard to scale. Impacture turns that fragmented back end into a secure foundation that works like a 24x7 data analyst and AI agent — delivering trusted dashboards, reports, automation, and customer-ready insight without requiring you to build the full data and AI stack yourself.
Brian Bredehoeft
Architect & Customer succes
Connected intelligence is the principle that data, analytics, and AI do not function as separate projects but as one connected system. Each layer feeds the next, and a central hub orchestrates the whole — letting service organisations scale insight, automation, and AI from one secure architecture rather than running separate projects per customer.
Your organization may already have valuable operational data, but if it sits across disconnected systems, it cannot reliably support dashboards, customer reporting, or AI-driven service. That creates delays, manual checks, inconsistent numbers, and missed opportunities to add value for your own team and your customers. Impacture solves that by turning fragmented back-end data into a secure, scalable layer for insight, automation, and AI — effectively giving you a 24x7 data analyst and AI agent as part of your product or service.
Most organizations do not need another dashboard tool first. They need a reliable way to centralize, standardize, optimize, automate, and visualize their data so insight can be shared in a secure, scalable, and repeatable way with employees, partners, and customers. That is what Impacture delivers.
This page explains how Impacture does that, what business value the model creates, how CentreBlock uses it in practice, and how we take customers from fragmented data to always-on reporting, delivered dashboards, and practical AI.
Impacture is an end-to-end platform and managed service that turns fragmented back-end data into validated, secured, and directly usable insight for both Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It brings together the functions that organizations often try to piece together across integration tooling, data storage, dashboards, chatbot experiments, and manual reporting — and turns them into one scalable service that delivers outcomes, not just plumbing.
Many software vendors in the service sector face the same problem: their application contains valuable operational data, but that data is locked in. Customers ask for dashboards, predictions, and automation, but the back-end is not set up for it.
Impacture solves this by turning fragmented back-end data into always-on reporting, customer-ready insight, and practical AI. That means operational data becomes connected, structured, secured, and reusable — so it can support dashboards, reports, chatbots, and agentic workflows without constant manual work or one-off fixes.
The resulting environment becomes an extension of your software or service. Your customers experience dashboards, reports, and AI as part of your product, while Impacture manages the infrastructure, governance, connector logic, and ongoing improvement underneath.
CentreBlock, a software vendor in the service sector, shows what this looks like in practice. With Impacture in place, the platform no longer functions only as back-end infrastructure; it becomes an always-on reporting, dashboard, and insight layer for CentreBlock and its customers.
Reporting time reduced from days to minutes. Where manual exports and spreadsheet processing previously took days, the platform now delivers automated reports that are immediately available to end-customers.
One validated data source for all analytics. Contradictory figures between departments or reports have disappeared. Every user works from the same gold-layer data.
Fast onboarding of new customers. New customers can be onboarded to dashboards and AI functionality quickly, without CentreBlock having to set up a separate environment each time. Each audience only sees the data and insight that are relevant to them.
AI-ready structured data. Because the data is already cleaned, validated, and governed, it can be used much more quickly and reliably for AI applications such as chatbots, copilots, and agentic workflows.
Customer-facing analytics as a product feature. CentreBlock can offer dashboards and insights as part of its own software product, helping turn data into visible customer value.
Impacture creates value through six connected pillars that together centralize, standardize, optimize, automate, visualize, and securely share insight. Instead of treating ingestion, governance, analytics, AI, and distribution as separate projects, Impacture connects them into one commercial model that can deliver value to employees, partners, and customers through the Impacture Sharing Engine.
This pillar brings data together. It centralizes data from spreadsheets, operational software, SQL environments, APIs, and other connectors into the Ingestion Lake, then standardizes and optimizes it in the Transformation Lake. Because it runs on Microsoft Fabric, the same architecture can start with small practical use cases and scale all the way to some of the largest data environments in the world.
This pillar makes data safe and trustworthy. It governs who can see what, applies data-quality rules, and enforces Row-Level Security (RLS) so employees, partners, and customers only see the data that is meant for them.
This pillar delivers always-on insight. Validated data is turned into operational dashboards, reports, benchmarks, and customer-facing views that can be distributed through the Impacture Sharing Engine as part of the client experience.
This pillar enables AI that can actually act. Instead of working from scattered or unvalidated inputs, AI uses governed gold-layer data to answer questions, support employees, and automate tasks through chatbots, copilots, and agentic workflows.
This pillar puts value in the hands of your customers. Insights, dashboards, reports, and AI output can be delivered through the Impacture Sharing Engine via embedded experiences, APIs, portals, and direct software integrations, in a secure, scalable, and repeatable way.
This pillar provides continuous improvement without extra overhead. It connects the other pillars through monitoring, orchestration, source onboarding, model tuning, and governance updates, so the platform keeps improving as needs evolve.
Connected intelligence is the principle that data, analytics, and AI do not function as separate projects but as one connected system. The Impacture data platform is the technical translation of that principle: each pillar feeds the next, and the Hub orchestrates the whole.
For service organisations with multiple end-customers, this means you do not run a separate analysis project for each customer. You have one architecture that scales, is secured, and continuously improves. The connected-intelligence approach makes it possible to start with dashboards today and add AI workflows tomorrow, without having to rebuild your foundation.
Data Fabric — An architecture approach where data from different sources and formats is made accessible in an integrated way, regardless of where that data physically resides. Impacture uses data-fabric principles to abstract source connections from the analysis layer.
Medallion Architecture — A layered data model with three levels: bronze (raw data), silver (cleaned data), and gold (modelled, validated data). Each layer adds quality and structure. This forms the backbone of every Impacture data platform.
Impacture Sharing Engine — The distribution component that delivers dashboards, reports, and AI output to employees, partners, and customers via embedded integrations, APIs, or portals, with secure access controls built in.
DTAP — Development, Test, Acceptance, Production. An environment structure that ensures changes are tested and validated before they go into production, preventing errors in the data pipeline from reaching end-users.
Row-Level Security (RLS) — A security mechanism that determines at row level which data a user may see. Within Impacture, RLS ensures that each end-customer has access exclusively to their own data.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — A way of making AI answer based on approved company data and documents instead of relying only on general training data. Impacture uses RAG to make chatbot and assistant output more useful, more explainable, and more reliable.
Agentic Workflow — An AI workflow where an autonomous agent independently executes tasks, makes decisions, and triggers actions based on data patterns and predefined rules. Goes beyond passive analysis: the AI acts.
Always-On Insight — The layer within Impacture that turns validated data into dashboards, reports, benchmarks, and customer-facing insight, delivered through the Impacture Sharing Engine.
Impacture gives service-oriented software organisations a secure, managed way to turn fragmented data into always-on reporting, dashboards, automation, and AI for their own teams and their customers.
A structured path from fragmented source data to trusted reporting, delivered dashboards, and practical AI.
Impacture identifies which systems, files, and platforms need to be connected, which data matters most, and which employees, partners, and customers need access to which insight. This is also where the access model is defined, so every audience sees only what is relevant to them from one scalable setup.
The technical environment is set up on Microsoft Fabric. Connectors are configured, the Development, Test, Acceptance, and Production (DTAP) flow is established, and data starts landing in the Ingestion Lake for the first time.
Raw data is transformed through the medallion architecture: bronze (raw), silver (cleaned), and gold (modelled and validated). In practice, this is where data is standardized and optimized in the Transformation Lake, and where data-quality rules and business logic are applied.
Row-Level Security (RLS) is configured so each audience only sees the data it is allowed to see. Data retention policies, access rights, and compliance rules are set up, and data-observability monitoring goes live.
Dashboards, reports, and customer-facing insight are built on the gold layer. The Impacture Sharing Engine then delivers that output in a secure, scalable, and repeatable way to employees, partners, and customers.
Based on the validated data, AI workflows are set up. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) gives AI answers based on approved company data and documentation instead of guesswork, while agentic workflows are configured for specific automation tasks. The platform starts to behave like a 24x7 data analyst and AI agent for teams and customers alike.
The platform goes live for end-users. Impacture remains responsible as a managed service for monitoring, optimisation, and ongoing development. New sources, reports, or AI applications are added iteratively.
How Impacture's pillars combine to centralize, standardize, optimize, automate, visualize, and securely share insight.
| Pillar | Function | Key capability |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Technical base layer | Source connections, medallion storage (bronze/silver/gold), DTAP environment on Microsoft Fabric |
| Data Governance | Access control and quality assurance | Row-Level Security per end-customer, data-quality rules, retention policies, automated anomaly detection |
| Impact Analytics | Analysis and reporting | Operational dashboards, trend analyses, benchmarks, whitelabel delivery to end-customers |
| AI & Automation | Autonomous AI workflows | RAG for contextual answers, agentic workflows for task execution, always operating on validated gold-layer data |
| Sharing Engine | Distribution of output | Embedded dashboards, APIs, direct software integrations, multi-tenant security at every distribution point |
| Hub (Connected Intelligence) | Orchestration and continuous improvement | Monitoring, new source onboarding, model tuning, governance rule updates |
Each pillar reinforces the next, so insight, automation, and AI can be delivered as one connected service.
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Architect & Customer succes
When data lives across disconnected systems, reporting becomes slow, manual, and inconsistent. Impacture turns that fragmented landscape into an always-on intelligence layer with trusted dashboards, automated reports, and one shared version of the truth.
Brian Bredehoeft
Architect & Customer succes
Always-on reporting and AI only work when data is trustworthy, access is controlled, and every number can be traced. Impacture provides the governed foundation that turns fragmented data into secure, scalable insight for your own teams and the customers you serve.
Brian Bredehoeft
Architect & Customer succes
