Microsoft Fabric.
Live on your data.
In 2 weeks. From $1,500.
A fixed-scope, fixed-fee Fabric engagement for manufacturing, FMCG, and supply chain teams. One source system connected. Bronze and Silver medallion layers built. One Power BI dashboard on your real operational data.
Not a proof of concept. Not a demo workspace with sample data. A production-grade Fabric foundation your team owns at the end of day 10.
2
weeks
From kick-off to live dashboard
$1,500
from
Fixed fee, confirmed before we start
1
source system
SAP, Dynamics, SQL or flat files
0
surprises
Scope locked. Price locked.
What's included
- 1 source system connected — SAP, Dynamics 365, SQL, or flat files
- Bronze ingestion pipeline with scheduled refresh on OneLake
- Silver transformation layer — cleansed, typed, business logic applied
- 1 Power BI dashboard — up to 5 visuals on the KPIs that matter
- 90-min knowledge transfer + full handover documentation
Claim your sprint
Tell us about your setup
Takes 60 seconds. Amit reviews personally and confirms the fee within 1 business day.
Trusted by operations teams at
The Problem
Why most Microsoft Fabric projects stall before going live
Fabric is not the problem. The problem is the six-week scoping phase, the demo workspace that never touches real data, and the architecture review that produces a diagram but no working pipeline.
You bought Fabric licences through your Microsoft renewal. Nothing has been built.
Microsoft Fabric is now included in most E3 and E5 plans. The licences are there. But activating a Fabric capacity, designing a medallion architecture, and connecting it to SAP or your ERP requires someone who has done it before. Most organisations sit on unused Fabric capacity for 6–12 months before doing anything with it.
The last Fabric POC produced a demo workspace with sample data. It never went live.
This is the most common failure pattern in Fabric projects. A partner builds a technically impressive architecture using sample data, presents it to IT leadership, and disappears. The workspace gets archived. Six months later someone asks what happened. The answer: it never touched real data, never had a real owner, and never produced anything a business user could open on a Monday morning.
SAP, ERP, and operations data sit in separate systems with no single source of truth.
A manufacturing plant running SAP B1 for inventory, a separate MES for production, and spreadsheets for quality reporting has three versions of truth — and they disagree. Month-end close is a reconciliation exercise, not a reporting exercise. Until the data is in one place with consistent transformation logic, every Power BI dashboard has numbers someone argues with.
Power BI reports exist. Nobody trusts the numbers.
The dashboards look professional. But ask the plant manager if the OTIF number on screen matches the SAP report, and the answer is usually "roughly." When the underlying data pipelines are poorly designed — wrong refresh schedules, mismatched grain, no data quality layer — every report carries an asterisk. That is a data engineering problem, not a Power BI problem.
What's included
Two weeks. Fixed scope. Real deliverables.
Every day of the sprint has a defined output. Not a meeting. Not a requirements document. Working infrastructure connected to your operational data.
Foundation
Architecture, ingestion, and Bronze layer
Replaces
The 6-week scoping exercise that ends with an architecture diagram and no working code.
- Day 1–2: Source system audit — connect to your chosen system, map the tables you actually need, define the KPIs the dashboard will show. No assumptions.
- Day 3–4: Medallion architecture designed and signed off — Bronze, Silver schemas, partitioning strategy, and naming conventions documented before a single pipeline is built.
- Day 4–5: Bronze layer ingestion pipeline built and running — raw data landing in OneLake Delta format, scheduled refresh configured, pipeline monitoring alerts set up.
End of Week 1: your real operational data is flowing into Microsoft Fabric. Not sample data. Not a demo — your actual SAP tables, production records, your numbers.
Delivery
Silver layer, Power BI dashboard, and handover
Replaces
The second six-week phase that adds three months to a project that should have been live already.
- Day 6–7: Silver transformation layer — cleansed, typed, and deduplicated Delta tables. Business logic applied: date spine, unit conversions, calculated fields. Data quality checks logged.
- Day 8–9: Power BI dashboard built on Silver layer — up to 5 visuals covering the agreed KPIs (OEE, OTIF, inventory turns, fill rate, or whatever is highest priority). Scheduled refresh configured.
- Day 10: Handover — 90-minute knowledge transfer session with your team, setup documentation handed over, and a prioritised list of what to build next.
End of Week 2: a production Power BI dashboard built on real Fabric infrastructure, owned by your team, with documentation that does not require MDI to maintain it.
Scope
Exactly what is — and isn't — included
Fixed-fee works because the scope is unambiguous. If you need something outside this list, we scope it separately — no hidden costs, no overruns.
Included in the sprint
- 1 source system (SAP B1, S/4HANA, ByDesign, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, SharePoint)
- Bronze ingestion pipeline with scheduled refresh
- Silver layer — cleansed, typed, business logic applied
- 1 Power BI dashboard (up to 5 visuals, agreed KPIs)
- On-Premises Data Gateway setup if required
- 1 × 90-min knowledge transfer session
- Architecture and setup documentation
Not included — scoped separately
- More than 1 source system
- Gold semantic layer / Direct Lake Power BI
- Row-level security
- More than 1 Power BI dashboard
- Real-time streaming ingestion
- Custom ML / forecasting models
- Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio
Fixed fee
$1,500 – $2,500
Exact fee confirmed after a 15-minute scoping call. Depends on source system complexity.
Common questions
What buyers ask us
Do we need to buy Microsoft Fabric licences before starting?
Microsoft Fabric is included in most Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 plans via Fabric capacity. Many organisations already have access and have not activated it. Before the sprint starts, we check your existing licence position — if you already have Fabric capacity, we work within it. If not, a Fabric F2 capacity costs around $262/month and is sufficient for the Starter Sprint. We do not profit from licence sales — we tell you what you actually need.
Can we connect SAP Business One or SAP S/4HANA in the sprint?
SAP is the most common source system we connect. The Starter Sprint supports one source — SAP B1, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ByDesign, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, or a SharePoint-hosted flat file. SAP connections use ODBC or the SAP connector via Fabric Data Factory pipelines. If your SAP instance is on-premises, we set up the On-Premises Data Gateway as part of the sprint.
What happens after the 2-week sprint ends?
You get a working Fabric workspace, Bronze and Silver Delta tables, a scheduled pipeline, and a Power BI dashboard — all documented and transferred to your team. There is no ongoing dependency on MDI to keep the lights on. Most clients then move into a phase 2 engagement: connecting additional source systems, building the Gold semantic layer, adding Direct Lake Power BI models, or layering in AI forecasting. That is scoped and priced separately based on what we found during the sprint.
Is 2 weeks really enough to deliver something meaningful?
For one source system with a clearly defined set of KPIs, yes. The sprint works because the scope is fixed: one source, two medallion layers, one dashboard. We have seen organisations spend six months on a Fabric POC that produced a demo workspace with sample data. Two weeks with real data from your actual source system, producing a dashboard your operations team uses on day 15, is worth more than six months of architecture diagrams.
What is the exact price?
The fee is between $1,500 and $2,500. The exact amount is confirmed after a 15-minute scoping call — it depends on the source system complexity and whether an On-Premises Data Gateway setup is required. The fee is fixed before any work begins. No surprises, no change requests on a fixed-scope engagement.
Ready to start
15-minute call. Fee confirmed. Sprint starts within the week.
Tell us which source system you want to connect and which KPIs matter most. We confirm the fixed fee, agree the dashboard scope, and begin on a date that works for your team.