
Microsoft Fabric Consulting and Azure Data Engineering Services
Microsoft Fabric consulting and Azure data engineering: OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse to Fabric migration, Purview governance and Azure AI for enterprise data.
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One Microsoft data platform, designed rather than accumulated
Most Microsoft organisations did not choose their data platform in one go. They have Azure Data Factory pipelines from one project, a Synapse workspace from another, Azure SQL databases behind line-of-business apps, and Power BI on top of all of it. Microsoft Fabric brings those pieces into one product with one storage layer, but it only simplifies things if the move is planned.
Our Microsoft Fabric consulting and Azure data engineering services cover both sides: building new on Fabric where it fits, and running, tuning or migrating the Azure services you already have. We work in your tenant and subscriptions, follow your security model, and hand over pipelines and models your team can run.
A large share of our work is for pharma and life sciences teams. Our founder, Harsh Khubchandani, came up through pharma commercial operations consulting at ZS, so we design the platform around the data and reports a commercial or patient services team actually uses. If Power BI is where most of your effort sits, see our Power BI consulting page.
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What we build on Microsoft Fabric and Azure
Fabric lakehouse and warehouse
OneLake as the single storage layer, with lakehouses for engineering work and a Fabric warehouse for SQL users, organised by domain and workspace.
- Workspace and domain design
- Lakehouse and warehouse modelling
- Shortcuts and mirroring instead of copies where possible
Data Factory, in Fabric and Azure
Pipelines, Dataflow Gen2 and copy jobs in Fabric, or Azure Data Factory where it is already in place, with parameterised, monitored loads for every source.
- Metadata-driven pipelines
- Incremental and change-based loads
- Failure alerts and rerun logic
Power BI on Fabric
Semantic models built directly on OneLake data, so reports read fresh data without heavy refresh schedules.
- Direct Lake semantic models
- Row-level security by role
- Deployment pipelines
Governance with Purview
The OneLake catalog for discovery inside Fabric, and Microsoft Purview for tenant-wide classification, sensitivity labels and data loss prevention.
- Sensitivity labels on regulated data
- Lineage from source to report
- Workspace roles and access reviews
Azure AI on your data
AI use cases built with Microsoft Foundry (the platform previously called Azure AI Foundry) and Azure OpenAI models, grounded in governed data rather than ad hoc extracts.
- Document extraction and classification
- Question answering over governed data
- Evaluation before rollout
Azure data services
Azure SQL, Synapse and Data Factory estates reviewed, tuned and kept running where a move to Fabric is not yet worth it.
- Performance and cost review
- Security and networking checks
- Documentation of what runs where
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Azure Synapse to Fabric migration
There is no single right path; it depends on what the Synapse workspace does today.
- Dedicated SQL pools move to a Fabric warehouse. Microsoft provides a migration assistant in Fabric that converts schema from a DACPAC or a direct connection and flags objects that need manual fixes; data is then copied with Fabric Data Factory.
- Spark workloads move to Fabric lakehouses and notebooks, usually with modest code changes.
- Synapse and Azure Data Factory pipelines are rebuilt or migrated into Fabric Data Factory, source by source.
- Power BI reports are repointed and, where it helps, rebuilt on Direct Lake.
Throughout, the old and new outputs run side by side and are reconciled before anything is switched off. Some estates are better left on Azure services for now, and we will say so when that is the case.
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Where Fabric and Azure fit for pharma and life sciences teams
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Case snapshot: patient access reporting
A specialty therapy provider was rebuilding its patient access reporting by hand each cycle, with identifiers that did not match between sources. We built clean identifiers and an MDM structure, automated case pipelines, standardised reporting and dashboards. Manual work fell by 60 to 80 percent and reporting stayed stable. In a Microsoft estate, the same pattern is Data Factory pipelines feeding a governed master and Power BI models in Fabric.
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How an engagement runs
Assess
We map your Azure and Power BI estate: what runs, what it costs, who uses it and what breaks.
Design
Target architecture, workspace and capacity plan, security and migration order are agreed before any build.
Build or migrate
Pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses and semantic models go in source by source, with tests and monitoring.
Reconcile and cut over
Reports and outputs are compared with the current ones and switched over only when they match.
Hand over and support
Documentation and walkthroughs for your team, with ongoing support as sources and capacity needs change.
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How we handle your data
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Microsoft Fabric and Azure questions
What does Microsoft Fabric consulting include?
Should we move from Azure Synapse to Fabric?
Do we still need Azure Data Factory if we use Fabric?
What is OneLake?
Can we use Azure OpenAI on our own data safely?
Are you a Microsoft partner?
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Related services
See Power BI consulting for the reporting layer, Databricks consulting if you run Azure Databricks, ETL services for pipeline work on any platform, and pharma commercial analytics for what we build on top for brand teams.
Tell us what your Microsoft data estate looks like today
List the Azure services and reports you run and what is not working. We will come back with a view on Fabric, migration order and where to start.
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