Microsoft Fabric Consulting Dubai —
built locally, deployed across the GCC.
Microsoft Fabric Consultant in Dubai for mid-market manufacturers, FMCG distributors and 3PLs across UAE, Saudi, Oman and Bahrain. OneLake, Lakehouse, Direct Lake Power BI. UAE-based delivery, present at the plant and the warehouse — not offshore.
Trusted by manufacturing, FMCG, packaging and logistics operations across India, the GCC, Singapore, the UK and North America.
50+
Clients delivered
150+
Projects
14+
Years in industrial data
5
Markets
Who this is for
Microsoft Fabric built around your role
Microsoft Fabric consulting for mid-market industrial businesses in Dubai, across the UAE and the wider GCC — the outcome each leader owns, mapped to what we build on OneLake and Direct Lake.
CIO / IT Head
The problem
You run SAP S/4HANA plus a tail of plant and warehouse systems across the UAE and Saudi, and every board question turns into a fortnight of manual consolidation before anyone trusts the number.
What we build
A OneLake lakehouse that reads all of it — SAP, MES, WMS — into one governed model your own team can support, with no offshore dependency.
One governed version of the truth across the GCC estate
Head of Data
The problem
The overnight refresh fails again at 4am, so Sunday’s operations review opens on Thursday’s data and the room quietly goes back to Excel.
What we build
Direct Lake semantic models over OneLake — the report reads live Delta Lake tables, so there is no refresh window left to break.
No overnight refresh to fail
Operations Director
The problem
OTIF, DIFOT and plant OEE live in three systems and a spreadsheet, so the miss is visible only after Lulu or Carrefour has already raised the chargeback.
What we build
Live operations dashboards in Power BI — OTIF, DIFOT and OEE in one view, exceptions flagged before the customer chases.
Fewer misses reach the customer
CFO
The problem
Month-end still runs on AED-and-USD restatements reconciled by hand, and the group pack is days old before anyone reads it.
What we build
Azure Data Factory pipelines feeding a governed model that reconciles multi-currency once — finance and operations read the same figure.
Reporting refresh cut up to 90% (Korpack)
The Problem
Patterns we see in every engagement
Most Microsoft Fabric consulting in Dubai is sold by global SIs and delivered offshore. The architect is in Dubai; the build is in a different time zone. By the time a Power BI change lands, the question has moved on. These are the patterns we close.
Offshore delivery means 18-hour turnaround on simple changes.
The architect is in Dubai. The build team is in another country. A simple measure change takes a day to land. Operations stops asking — they go back to Excel.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition + non-SAP estate.
UAE mid-market typically runs SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud or SAP ByD in the ERP plus a long tail of operational systems — MES at the plant, WMS at JAFZA, TMS connecting Saudi-UAE-Oman lanes. Fabric consolidates all of them; SAP-only analytics tools cannot.
Customer scorecards from Lulu, Carrefour, Spinneys, Choithram are not in any internal system.
DIFOT is the customer metric. Your internal OTIF reads 5–7 points higher. The chargeback dispute happens 30 days after the miss. The dashboard reconciles the gap before the chargeback lands.
GCC working week and Arabic + English reporting.
Sunday-Thursday or Monday-Friday across the GCC. Power BI handles RTL Arabic but bilingual semantic models need careful design. We build it correctly the first time.
What we build
What we build for UAE clients
Six engagement shapes that map to the UAE / GCC industrial pattern.
One Lakehouse for the GCC region
Replaces
Six separate Power BI workspaces — one per country — that nobody can roll up cleanly.
- Operations across UAE, Saudi, Oman and Bahrain consolidated into one OneLake
- Region-by-region drilldown, group-level rollup, multi-currency base in AED or USD
- Per-country compliance review handled per workload — not blanket
- Cross-country supply chain visibility for FMCG distribution and 3PL operations
Group leadership sees the GCC region as one picture. Country managers see their country in detail.
Power BI Direct Lake on SAP S/4HANA Cloud / ByD
Replaces
Stale SAP reports that arrive Tuesday with last Thursday's data.
- Live integration with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and SAP ByD via certified OData APIs
- Power BI Direct Lake — no refresh, no hydration penalty
- Replace stale SAP statutory reports with Direct Lake Power BI for management reporting
- SAP Embedded Analytics stays useful for SAP-internal drill
Operations stops working from stale SAP exports. Decisions move closer to real-time.
Customer DIFOT dashboards for UAE retail
Replaces
The Lulu vendor scorecard PDF that lands monthly and starts a chargeback dispute with no internal data to defend.
- DIFOT per customer per SKU reconciled to vendor scorecards (Lulu, Carrefour, Spinneys, Choithram, Geant)
- Root cause Pareto — stock, production, paperwork, customer-side
- Auto-prep of dispute pack with evidence per disputed order
- Chargeback exposure visible in real time
Chargeback dispute success rises. Customer scorecard becomes a managed metric.
JAFZA / KIZAD warehouse intelligence
Replaces
The WMS dashboard that nobody outside the warehouse opens.
- Pick accuracy, dock-to-stock cycle, cross-dock yield
- Labour productivity per shift and per task type
- Inventory accuracy with cycle-count variance
- Visibility across multiple DCs — JAFZA, KIZAD, Hamriyah, Sharjah
Warehouse operations becomes visible to supply chain leadership, not just warehouse managers.
Manufacturing analytics for UAE plants
Replaces
The plant-by-plant Excel that takes a week to consolidate into a group review.
- OEE, predictive maintenance, energy intensity
- KIZAD, Hamriyah, Sharjah, RAK plant coverage
- Cross-plant benchmark with consistent OEE definition
- Predictive maintenance where signal coverage justifies it
Plant-level performance becomes comparable. Operational best practice transfers between sites.
AED-base multi-currency reporting
Replaces
The 'restate to AED for finance, restate to USD for group' Excel that runs at month-end.
- Base-currency normalisation built into the semantic model
- Statutory reporting (per country compliance) and management reporting from one source
- Auto-currency conversion using approved month-end rates
- Audit trail per conversion — every rate captured at the time of the transaction
Month-end close drops by days. Finance and operations agree on the same number.
Business outcomes
What changes after a Fabric build
Figures are from delivered MDI engagements, tagged to their source; capability outcomes apply to every governed build.
up to 90%
Faster reporting refresh
Korpack: 1.5h → 15 min
−85%
Pipeline runtime cut
Korpack — CDC + Direct Lake
40–60%
Fewer ad-hoc report requests
Copilot on a governed model
6 weeks
To first working output
MDI standard cadence
One governed model across UAE, Saudi, Oman and Bahrain
Direct Lake dashboards — no refresh window to break
AED and USD reconciled once for finance and group
AI-ready semantic models, documented for Power BI Copilot
Client results
Proof, not promises
Verified outcomes from delivered work on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Each links to the full case study.
How we work
From onsite walkthrough to first value in 6 weeks
Discover on-site at your Jebel Ali, KIZAD or Sharjah operation. Prototype delivered against your data. Deploy across the GCC region.
01
Discover — onsite, in your operation
Two weeks. Onsite walkthrough at your Dubai / Sharjah / KIZAD operation. Workshop with the Operations Director, IT Head, named end-users. Map data sources, score data quality, identify the domain that moves first.
02
Prototype — Lakehouse + first Direct Lake report
Two weeks. Fabric Lakehouse plus one production Power BI Direct Lake report. We bring the reference architecture; we deliver against your data. Parallel-run for 2 weeks before cutover.
03
Deploy — across the GCC region
Four to ten weeks. Roll out across regions or departments. For multi-country GCC rollouts (UAE + Saudi + Oman), deploy phase extends to 8–10 weeks because of cross-tenant data flows and per-country compliance review.
Technology stack
Platform
Power BI
Pipelines
ERP
Operational
GCC-specific
Why MyData Insights
Why choose MDI for Microsoft Fabric in Dubai
Dubai-based, GCC-wide delivery
Amit is in Dubai and present at the plant and the warehouse — not an architect in one time zone handing off to a build team in another.
Microsoft Fabric & Power BI specialists
We build only on the Microsoft stack — Fabric, OneLake, Power BI, Azure Data Factory — so your IT team can support what we deliver, with no niche-vendor lock-in.
Built for industrial operations
OEE, OTIF, DIFOT and fill rate — not generic dashboards adapted to your sector after the fact.
Governance-first
One governed semantic model per domain, row-level security at the model layer — so the number stays trusted long after go-live.
GCC-ready by design
AED base currency, Arabic RTL reporting, the GCC working week and per-country compliance handled per workload — built correctly the first time.
First working output in six weeks
A working governed model and a production Direct Lake report live in six weeks on a fixed scope — not a 50-slide roadmap.
Common questions
What buyers ask us
Are you onsite or remote?
Onsite for Discover (1–2 visits per week during the phase) and for go-live moments. Remote for build and steady state. Amit is Dubai-based; the delivery team operates across Dubai and Hyderabad.
Do you work with our existing SI?
Sometimes. Where the global SI is responsible for the SAP project and we are responsible for Fabric, we partition cleanly. Where the SI is also selling Fabric and we are brought in as a second opinion, we are transparent with you about the comparison.
What about Microsoft Direct CSP partners in Dubai?
We work alongside named UAE CSP partners for licensing. Our work is the build and the delivery. Licensing typically goes through your existing CSP relationship.
Saudi data residency — does that mean we need a separate Azure tenant?
Not always. Some regulated workloads do need Azure Saudi Central. For most non-regulated operational data, the UAE North region is sufficient even when the data is from Saudi operations. We assess per workload in Discover.
How much does it cost?
We work in fixed-scope, fixed-fee phases — Discover, Prototype, Deploy — never open-ended time and materials. The fee is quoted precisely after Discover, once we have seen your source systems and the scope of the build, because those are what actually move the number. What we commit to upfront is the timeline: first working output in 6 weeks, not a 50-slide roadmap. Invoiced in USD or AED, UAE VAT handled per invoice, and set up for both UAE FZCO and India Pvt Ltd entity billing. Microsoft Fabric capacity is a separate Microsoft licence.
Engagement
Free Fabric Architecture Review — Dubai
Thirty minutes with Amit on your actual stack — the SAP and plant systems feeding it, where the overnight refresh breaks, and what a OneLake lakehouse would change. In Dubai or on a call. No slides, no obligation.
What you get
- A read of your SAP and operational source systems
- A OneLake and Direct Lake target sketch
- Fabric F-SKU capacity sizing for your workload
- Per-country GCC compliance and data-residency notes
- A 6-week roadmap to first working output
Ready to move
Book a 30-minute Microsoft Fabric diagnostic in Dubai
30 minutes with Amit, in Dubai or on a call. No slides. No pitch deck. No obligation to proceed. We walk through your existing stack and where Fabric would land first.