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Microsoft Fabric Analyst

Microsoft Fabric Analyst

Transform your business with Australia’s leading Microsoft Fabric Consulting team.

Transform Your Data Into Actionable Insights

Report Simple provides expert Microsoft Fabric Analysts to augment your team, bridging the gap between raw data and actionable strategic insights. Our Australian-based specialists seamlessly integrate into your operations, ensuring your Fabric environment is optimised for speed, accuracy, and scalability while reducing the overhead of permanent hires.

Automate Reporting

Stop losing hours to manual data entry. We configure automated pipelines that eliminate redundancy, ensuring your team focuses on analysis rather than assembly.

Dynamic Visualisation

Move beyond static spreadsheets. We build interactive, real-time dashboards that allow stakeholders to drill down into data and answer questions instantly.

Actionable Intelligence

Turn raw data into a strategic asset. Uncover hidden trends, predict future outcomes, and seize growth opportunities that were previously invisible.

Maximise ROI

Make profitable decisions based on facts, not hunches. Use precise analytics to pinpoint operational inefficiencies and significantly reduce waste.

Seamless Integration

Unify your data landscape. We create robust connections between your favourite sources - creating a single, truthful view of your entire business.

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SERVICES

Advanced Data Modelling

Our analysts build robust semantic models within Microsoft Fabric to ensure a single source of truth for your organisation. We optimise relationship schemas and Direct Lake connections to deliver lightning-fast query performance.

Real-Time Analytics

We implement Synapse Real-Time Analytics to capture and process streaming data for immediate operational insights. Your Microsoft Fabric Analyst will configure eventstreams to ensure your decision-makers are always acting on the latest figures.

Pipeline Engineering

Streamline your data ingestion with expertly constructed Data Factory pipelines that automate movement from diverse sources into OneLake. We ensure your data flows remain resilient, error-free, and cost-effective at scale.

Governance and Security

Secure your data estate with comprehensive governance strategies that manage access controls and sensitivity labels across the Fabric ecosystem. We help you maintain compliance while democratising data access for authorised stakeholders.

Power BI Optimisation

Bridge the gap between data engineering and visualisation by optimising how Power BI consumes data from Microsoft Fabric. Our analysts refine DAX measures and report performance to deliver clarity and speed to your leadership team.

190+ Australian Enterprises Choose Report Simple. 

570+ Successful Projects

We bring deep experience to every engagement, having delivered hundreds of scalable analytics solutions across government and private sectors.

100% Australian Owned

We don't farm your data out to offshore teams. Our team is Australian-based, ensuring clear communication, local timezone alignment, and strict data sovereignty.

Your Tenant, Your IP

We build inside your environment so the solution is entirely yours - code, models, and IP. You stay in control, with the freedom to continue independently.

Matt Lazarus Report Simple

We believe data should empower, not overwhelm. Simplicity is in our DNA.

Matt Lazarus

Founder of Report Simple

Collaborating with Report Simple lifted our marketing data strategy to a whole new level... The results speak for themselves with a 62% increase in ROI.

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CMO, Beeline

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Our Proven Microsoft Fabric Analyst Process

We utilise a rigorous engagement framework to ensure our analysts integrate seamlessly into your workflows, delivering tangible improvements to your data architecture from day one.

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Discovery and Requirement Alignment

We begin by auditing your current data maturity and specific project roadblocks to define the exact technical profile required. This ensures we deploy a Microsoft Fabric Analyst with the specific skills—whether in OneLake engineering or Power BI reporting—to address your most critical challenges.

Agile Deployment and Execution
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Our analysts adopt an agile workflow to rapidly prototype, test, and deploy data solutions within your Fabric tenant. We focus on quick wins, such as optimising slow pipelines or fixing broken semantic models, while simultaneously building a scalable foundation for future analytics.

Optimisation and Knowledge Transfer
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Beyond technical execution, we focus on elevating your internal capabilities through comprehensive documentation and team upskilling. We ensure that once our engagement concludes, your team possesses the confidence and architectural understanding to maintain the Fabric environment independently.

FAQ

What does a Microsoft Fabric Analyst actually do, and how do they improve the accuracy, reliability, and clarity of organisational reporting?

A Microsoft Fabric Analyst helps organisations move from inconsistent, manual reporting to a governed, unified analytics environment where information behaves predictably and supports confident decision making. Their work focuses on structuring data models, validating definitions, troubleshooting inconsistencies, managing lineage, and ensuring every dataset connects cleanly within Fabric’s ecosystem of OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse, Warehouse, Lakehouse, and Power BI. Analysts reduce the noise created by multiple versions of truth by standardising logic, resolving refresh issues, improving performance, and aligning metrics with real business operations. They translate raw data into trusted insight, protect organisations from errors caused by fragmented sources, and support leaders with reporting that is accurate, timely, and strategically aligned. Report Simple analysts are known for creating environments where teams feel clarity rather than overwhelm because the information they rely on is structured, governed, and easy to understand.

How does Report Simple support Microsoft Fabric Analysts and the organisations they work with, especially during major transitions from legacy systems to unified analytics?

Report Simple supports Microsoft Fabric Analysts by designing environments that make analytical work simpler, cleaner, and more impactful. Legacy systems often create hidden inconsistencies, broken relationships, unverified assumptions, and ungoverned logic that force analysts into reactive problem solving. We address this by building Fabric architectures that stabilise ingestion, enforce semantic structure, and establish consistent validation pathways so analysts can focus on insight rather than repair. Our analysts and consultants work together to ensure metrics are defined clearly, pipelines operate predictably, and modelling patterns follow best practice. This reduces confusion, accelerates analysis, and allows internal analysts to work with confidence. Many organisations report a dramatic drop in reporting errors and manual intervention once their environment is aligned with Report Simple’s governance standards.

Organisations also rely on Report Simple because we understand the human side of analytical roles. Analysts often become the central translators between data engineering, business teams, and leadership, and this can be overwhelming when systems are chaotic. We communicate clearly, document thoroughly, and create environments where analysts feel supported rather than burdened by complexity. Our approach ensures analysts become strategic contributors rather than data firefighters. When analysts operate within a well designed Fabric environment, their work strengthens decision intelligence, improves organisational trust in reporting, and supports long term transformation without the instability that usually accompanies technical shifts.

Can Microsoft Fabric Analysts strengthen governance, data integrity, and regulatory trust across large organisations?

Microsoft Fabric Analysts play a critical role in strengthening governance by enforcing consistency, validating transformations, and maintaining transparent lineage across datasets and semantic models. Because Fabric centralises all assets in OneLake, analysts can apply unified naming conventions, metric definitions, role based access, and data quality rules that reduce drift and improve auditability. They ensure that every dataset originates from a verified source and follows predictable logic, which significantly reduces the discrepancies that previously created tension between departments. This stability is essential for industries such as government, healthcare, national services, sustainability reporting, and financial regulation, where trust in numbers directly affects compliance and decision making. Analysts help organisations avoid regulatory risks by ensuring data flows are clean, traceable, and aligned with internal and external assurance requirements.

A Microsoft Fabric Analyst also connects governance with culture by helping teams understand how and why data behaves the way it does. A Canberra based agency might rely on an analyst to maintain transparency for program performance reporting, while a transportation or energy organisation may depend on analysts to verify environmental or operational metrics that flow into ESG disclosures. Analysts sustain trust by documenting clearly, validating regularly, and ensuring alignment between the real world operations and the metrics that represent them. With Report Simple’s guidance, analysts become the guardians of data quality, enabling organisations to make confident decisions supported by stable, structured, and compliant information.

How can Microsoft Fabric Analysts support AI readiness, automation, and advanced analytics while ensuring organisations still need human analysts despite growing AI capabilities?

Microsoft Fabric Analysts support AI readiness by ensuring organisations have the stable, clean, and consistently modelled datasets required for predictive analytics, scenario modelling, anomaly detection, and natural language exploration. AI systems depend on verified definitions and governed semantic structures; without them, AI amplifies mistakes rather than improving insight. Analysts prepare the organisation by identifying incoherent logic, clarifying ambiguous metrics, restructuring data flows, and ensuring that Fabric components refresh predictably across OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse, Warehouse, and Power BI. This gives AI models the trustworthy foundation they need for effective training and responsible outcomes. Analysts also design the pipelines that feed automated workflows, allowing operational reporting, compliance checks, and performance alerts to run reliably without manual intervention. A logistics company might, for instance, use automation to trigger real time alerts for inventory variances or service delays, supported by analysts who maintain the logic behind those thresholds and ensure the automation works accurately under real world conditions.

Even as AI evolves, analysts remain essential because AI cannot interpret business nuance, correct flawed modelling decisions, resolve ambiguous definitions, or redesign broken datasets. Analysts provide the reasoning, context, and governance that AI cannot replicate. Report Simple supports analysts by building structured environments that integrate human judgment with AI assisted capability, ensuring organisations benefit from faster insight without sacrificing accuracy or trust. Analysts ensure AI works correctly, ethically, and strategically, keeping organisations in control of their information rather than handing it blindly to automation.

Why do organisations choose Report Simple when they need Microsoft Fabric Analysts who can improve reporting accuracy, strengthen governance, and simplify complex data ecosystems?

Organisations choose Report Simple because our Microsoft Fabric Analysts combine strong technical capability with clear communication, emotionally intelligent support, and a disciplined approach to governance that makes complex ecosystems feel manageable. Many teams operate within environments filled with inconsistent definitions, unclear lineage, and reactive reporting, which creates operational noise and undermines trust. Report Simple analysts stabilise these environments, rebuild semantic models, and align definitions with how the organisation actually measures performance so reporting becomes consistent, accurate, and strategically useful. Clients consistently describe our analysts as calming, structured, and trustworthy because we remove complexity and replace it with clarity. Our analysts help organisations move from fragmented systems to unified reporting experiences that reduce confusion, strengthen collaboration, and make decision making faster and more reliable across finance, operations, sustainability, risk, and executive teams.

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