Microsoft Fabric Consulting
Gulf BI Analytics helps UAE businesses adopt Microsoft Fabric the right way. Fabric unifies your data engineering, warehousing, semantic models and Power BI on OneLake. We design the architecture, migrate your existing Power BI estate, and set up governance so Fabric scales without runaway cost.
How we help with Microsoft Fabric
Fabric architecture & strategy
A right-sized Fabric design — workspaces, capacities, OneLake and medallion (bronze/silver/gold) layers mapped to your data and budget.
Lakehouse & data engineering
Lakehouse and warehouse design with pipelines and notebooks to land, clean and model your data reliably.
Direct Lake semantic models
High-performance Direct Lake models so Power BI reads straight from OneLake — fast, without import-refresh overhead.
Migration from Power BI
Assessment and phased migration of your existing Power BI datasets and dataflows into Fabric, with no loss of numbers.
Governance & cost control
Capacity monitoring, workspace governance and security so Fabric usage stays controlled and predictable.
Enablement
Training for your data team on Fabric workspaces, lakehouses and Direct Lake so they can run it themselves.
Microsoft Fabric, adopted without the guesswork
Fabric is powerful but easy to over-provision. We design for what your data and decisions actually need — and make cost and governance part of the plan from day one.
- Senior-led architecture — capacity and cost planned up front, not discovered on the bill.
- Direct Lake models for Power BI performance without import refresh.
- Clean migration path from your existing Power BI estate.
- Governance, security and monitoring built in.
- Your team trained to operate Fabric after handover.
Microsoft Fabric consulting — frequently asked questions
What is Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is a unified analytics platform that combines data engineering, data warehousing, data science, real-time analytics and Power BI on a single data lake called OneLake, instead of stitching together separate tools.
Should we move from Power BI to Fabric?
It depends on your data volume and roadmap. We run a short assessment and give you a straight answer — Fabric is not right for every team, and we will tell you if it is not.
What is Direct Lake and why does it matter?
Direct Lake lets Power BI read data directly from OneLake without importing or scheduled refresh, giving import-level performance on large datasets with near-real-time data.
Can you migrate our existing Power BI datasets to Fabric?
Yes. We assess your current datasets and dataflows and migrate them in phases, validating the numbers at each step.
How do you keep Fabric costs under control?
We right-size capacity to your workload, set up monitoring and alerts, and design efficient models so you do not pay for over-provisioned compute.
Thinking about Microsoft Fabric?
Book a free consultation and we’ll assess whether Fabric fits your data — and map the fastest path if it does.