Microsoft Fabric · For data, BI and IT leaders
Microsoft Fabric Consulting: Faster Reports, Controlled Capacity Costs, Audit-Ready Governance
One trusted data platform instead of scattered tools, for enterprises and public-sector organizations: we take you from assessment and target architecture through OneLake, Power BI and Purview to a production-ready Fabric platform. Insight42 is recognized with the German Innovation Award for decentralized, risk-eliminating architectures.
One platform, four questions that drive cost and risk
Microsoft Fabric brings data integration, data engineering, warehousing, real-time analytics and Power BI together on one SaaS platform, with OneLake as the shared data store. You run fewer tools, but four questions move to the front: How should workspaces be structured? Who may do what? How is shared capacity governed? And how does your existing data get onto the platform without copying everything?
You get the answers before they turn into costly rework: an architecture that treats governance, security and cost as design inputs from the start.
What our Microsoft Fabric consulting gives you
1. Microsoft Fabric assessment: is Fabric worth it for you?
You get a clear decision on whether and how Fabric fits, plus a rollout plan from discovery through pilot to production. We assess data sources, existing platforms, licensing and requirements and rank use cases by value, such as time-to-insight and data trust.
2. Target architecture that grows with your organization
Every team knows where data lives and who may do what: workspace taxonomy and naming standards, domains and ownership, separate dev/test/prod environments, a role and permission model and your network posture, documented as a reference architecture.
3. OneLake, Lakehouse & Warehouse: stop copying data
OneLake shortcuts unify data across domains and clouds without copying it, so you don’t store and secure the same data twice. We define your bronze/silver/gold pattern (medallion architecture), document lakehouse and warehouse decisions per use case and, where needed, add a real-time lane with Eventstreams.
4. Power BI: reports everyone trusts
Certified datasets and consistent measures end report sprawl and debates over whose number is right. We connect Power BI to lakehouse and warehouse and clarify which licenses creators and consumers need, so you buy only what you use.
5. Purview & data governance: every number traceable
Your data becomes discoverable, trusted and compliant: Microsoft Purview for lineage, classification and search, mandatory sensitivity labels for curated gold data and clear ownership of data products.
Run it securely and with less manual work
6. Security without slowing teams down
Secure by default: least-privilege permissions through workspace roles and Entra ID, a OneLake security strategy and, where required, private links and outbound rules. If you are regulated, we align the platform with GDPR, BSI C5 and NIS2.
7. Capacity & FinOps: no surprise bills
Fabric capacity is shared: without guardrails, one heavy workload slows everyone down and costs rise unexpectedly. We size capacity SKUs, set up scaling, pausing, scheduling and workload prioritization, and give you usage monitoring with cost allocation per team or tenant, so you see who drives which cost.
8. CI/CD: safe, repeatable releases
Changes to pipelines, models and reports are tested before your users see them and reach production in a traceable way: separate dev/test/prod workspaces, version control and release processes that follow your standards.
9. Migration in controlled steps
Step by step instead of big bang: we first connect your existing data sources through shortcuts, then move workloads from your current platform. Every step is checked against acceptance criteria agreed with you up front, so you know exactly when it is done.
10. Implementation: from pilot to production
Platform build, data pipelines and reports, operations runbooks and a structured handover, so your own team can run the platform. More on our overall approach under Data Platforms & Analytics.
Where does your Fabric platform stand?
In a 30-minute initial call you get clarity on your starting point, your governance and security requirements and whether a Microsoft Fabric assessment makes sense for you.
Why Insight42
- Pass audits with less effort: architectures aligned with BSI C5, NIS2 and GDPR from day one, for enterprises and public-sector organizations in Germany and Europe.
- One accountable team: assessment, architecture, implementation and operations from one source. No hand-offs, no finger-pointing, less coordination for you. Founded and led by Martin-Peter Lambert in Ingolstadt.
- Results that run in production: we build and run our own products (Secretary42, Unimatrix-OI, InheritanceVault) and bring the same discipline to your project.
- You stay in control: data residency, key custody (BYOK/HYOK) and a documented exit strategy are built in from day one, not bolted on later.