Microsoft Fabric Consultancy
Microsoft Fabric consultancy without the enterprise overhead.
We are an independent UK consultancy helping businesses plan, build and run Microsoft Fabric. Capacity sizing, OneLake, data warehousing, lakehouse design and Power BI on Fabric — explained in plain English, sized to what your team actually needs.
What is Microsoft Fabric, in plain English?
Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft's all in one analytics platform. It bundles the bits you used to buy separately — data integration, a lakehouse, a data warehouse, real time analytics, data science and Power BI — into a single SaaS service backed by OneLake, a unified storage layer your whole organisation can share.
In practice, that means fewer moving parts, one billing model based on capacity units, and a much shorter path from raw data to a Power BI report that someone actually opens. The trade off is that capacity, workspace design and governance need a bit of thought up front, which is where a good Fabric consultant earns their keep.
Where we help
- • Fabric readiness and roadmap
- • Capacity sizing and management
- • OneLake and workspace design
- • Lakehouse and data warehousing
- • Pipelines and dataflows
- • Power BI on Fabric and Direct Lake
- • Governance, security and chargeback
How we help
Practical Microsoft Fabric consulting, from first workshop to live workloads.
Capacity planning and management
We help you pick the right Fabric SKU, set up capacity alerts, and put guardrails in place so a runaway notebook does not knock out your Power BI reports. Ongoing capacity reviews keep the bill predictable.
Lakehouse and data warehousing
Whether you need a lightweight lakehouse, a full Fabric warehouse, or both side by side, we design a sensible medallion layout, agree naming conventions, and load your data sources in a way the team can maintain.
Pipelines, dataflows and shortcuts
We build the plumbing — Data Factory pipelines, Gen2 dataflows, OneLake shortcuts and notebooks — so your data lands where it should, on a schedule, with monitoring you can actually read.
Power BI on Fabric and Direct Lake
Fabric changes how Power BI talks to data. We help you decide where Direct Lake fits, where import still wins, and how to migrate existing datasets without breaking the reports people rely on.
Governance, security and chargeback
Workspace structure, domains, role based access, sensitivity labels and capacity chargeback to internal teams. Boring on paper, essential once more than one team is using the platform.
Data science and Copilot readiness
Once the lakehouse is healthy, the door opens to notebooks, ML models and Copilot in Fabric. We help you scope realistic first use cases instead of buying a tool in search of a problem.
Capacity management
Getting Fabric capacity right.
Most Fabric problems trace back to capacity. Pick an F SKU that is too small and reports throttle at month end. Pick one that is too big and finance starts asking awkward questions. We look at your actual workloads — Power BI refreshes, pipelines, warehouse queries, notebooks — and recommend a sizing that has headroom without being wasteful.
We also set up the monitoring that matters: the Fabric Capacity Metrics app, alerting on smoothing and bursting, and a simple review rhythm so capacity is checked monthly rather than after a complaint.
Data warehousing on Fabric
Lakehouse, warehouse, or both?
Fabric gives you a SQL endpoint over a lakehouse and a full T-SQL warehouse that share the same OneLake storage. That is genuinely useful, but it also creates a design decision on day one. We help you pick the right pattern for each domain — typically a bronze and silver lakehouse for raw and cleaned data, with a gold warehouse for the curated star schemas Power BI consumes.
The result is a tidy, well documented data warehouse your analysts can query with SQL, your Power BI developers can model against, and your future self can extend without rewriting everything.
How we work
A small, senior team — no big consultancy theatre.
Discover
A short workshop on your data sources, current tools and the decisions you want Fabric to support.
Design
A pragmatic Fabric architecture covering capacity, workspaces, lakehouse and warehouse layout, and Power BI.
Build
We deliver in short iterations — pipelines, models, reports — so you see something working in weeks, not quarters.
Embed
Documentation, training and an optional managed support arrangement so your team feel confident running it.
Who we work with
Most of our Fabric work is with mid sized UK businesses — typically anywhere from 50 to a few thousand staff — who already use Power BI and are thinking about Fabric as the next step. We also help organisations migrating off Azure Synapse, on premise SQL warehouses or a patchwork of dataflows and Excel.
You do not need a huge data team to get value out of Fabric. A lot of our clients have one or two analysts and a willing finance or operations lead. We slot in alongside them.
Why an independent consultancy
We are not a reseller and we do not get a kickback from Microsoft licensing. That means we will happily tell you when Fabric is overkill, when a simple Power BI Pro setup would do the job, or when one workload would be cheaper on Azure SQL than on a Fabric warehouse.
Honest advice, with a long track record across reporting, dashboards and data warehousing, is usually what people are buying when they bring us in.
Related services
Microsoft Fabric sits alongside everything else we do.
Fabric work usually pulls in our Power BI consultancy, dashboard design, data analytics services and Power BI training so the platform, the reports and the people grow together.