Microsoft Fabric Harness
Fabric delivery in a fraction of the time
Map, design, validate and build your Microsoft Fabric platform with our custom-built AI harness. It carries 25 years of data platform expertise, so AI works the way our senior consultants do, every step is checked, and you get a platform that is right the first time.
Not a Generic AI Tool
Anyone can connect AI to Microsoft Fabric. What they can’t give it is 25 years of knowing how a data platform should be designed, built and run. A harness is our tested playbooks, tools and checks that guide AI step by step, and this one carries the expertise of our Head of Data Platforms and the consultants who deliver Fabric for our clients every day. And it works with most AI subscriptions, so you can usually use the one you already have.
Our best practice
How we design lakehouses, warehouses and medallion layers, written down and applied the same way on every engagement.
Your glossary and data dictionary
We build a dedicated business glossary and data dictionary for your data, so AI uses your definitions and never guesses what a number or a field means.
Tested scripts
Pipelines, notebooks and table patterns we have already proven in production, not code written from scratch.
Checks at every step
Built in validation and sign off points that catch problems before they reach your platform.
What the Fabric Harness Does
Every engagement follows the same staged path. Your team signs off the design and the numbers before anything is built, and a senior consultant reviews each step.
- 1Lineage
- 2Sign off
- 3Medallion design
- 4Numbers validation
- 5Sign off
- 6Build
Map what you have
Automatic lineage
Every measure in your current Qlik, Power BI or SQL estate is traced back to its sources and documented.
Design before you build
Medallion layers
Bronze, Silver and Gold layers are designed from the lineage, then tested and refined with you.
Build from the design
Pipelines and tables
Fabric pipelines, notebooks and tables are generated from the signed off specification.
Check what is there
Audit and tune
Already on Fabric? It audits your environment and shows where to save capacity and cost.
What You Get
On our own Fabric engagements, the harness has cut development time by about 70%. Our consultants spend that time where it counts: understanding your business and getting the design right.
About 70% faster
Development time on Fabric cut by about 70%, so value arrives months sooner.
Right the first time
The design is tested before the build and every number is reconciled, so rework falls away.
Senior expertise every time
Built and kept current by our Head of Data Platforms, so 25 years of experience is in every engagement, whoever is on your team.
Documentation you keep
Lineage, design and technical documents are produced as part of the work and handed over to your team.
Safe on Your Data
Speed never comes at the cost of control. The same strict rules apply on every engagement.
Only with your permission
The harness is never connected to your environment unless you have agreed to it.
Your access rules
It works under the consultant’s own access rights, so it can only see and do what that person is already allowed to.
Reviewed before production
Nothing reaches production until a consultant has reviewed it, and it can run read only when you only need analysis.
Inside your network
When your data can’t leave your network, the harness can run on a local instance inside it, within your data processing standards.
Works With Our Other Harnesses
The Fabric harness works hand in hand with our other harnesses, so lineage feeds the design and your reports move across without surprises.
Data Lineage Harness
Maps every measure in your current estate, so the Fabric design starts from facts, not guesswork.
Power BI Harness
Builds the Power BI semantic models and reports that sit on your new Fabric foundation.
Microsoft Fabric Consulting
Migrations to Fabric, new lakehouses and warehouses, and tuning of existing Fabric environments.
One of our custom-built AI harnesses. See all our AI work.
Fabric Harness: Our Approach
Discover
We connect the harness to your current estate, with your permission, and map its lineage, so we know exactly what you have and how every number is calculated.
Transform
We design your medallion layers with you, validate the numbers, get your sign off, and then build on Microsoft Fabric in stages.
Enable
We hand over the documentation the harness produced and train your team through Data & AI Fluency, so they can run and extend the platform.
A Fabric platform you can trust, delivered in a fraction of the time.
Let’s Connect
Schedule a Call
Book a call with a senior consultant to see how the Fabric harness would work on your data platform.