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Microsoft Fabric Consulting

Microsoft Fabric Consulting

Australia’s Premier Microsoft Fabric Consulting Firm for Unified Analytics

Transform Your Data Into Actionable Insights

Report Simple is Australia’s specialist Microsoft Fabric consulting partner, helping organisations unify their data estate into a single, AI-ready foundation. Whether you are migrating from Azure Synapse or building a new OneLake architecture, our local team delivers scalable solutions that simplify governance and accelerate insights across your business.

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

Microsoft Fabric Setup & Migration

Modernise your data estate with a seamless transition to the cloud. We handle the end-to-end setup of your Microsoft Fabric environment, whether you are migrating from legacy SQL servers or integrating diverse cloud sources. Our consultants ensure your workspace is configured for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency from day one.

Unified Lakehouse Architecture & OneLake

Break down data silos with a robust OneLake strategy. We design unified Lakehouse architectures that bring structured and unstructured data together in a single, governed location. By optimising data models for the 'Direct Lake' mode, we eliminate data movement and ensure your reports run at lightning speed without the need for constant refreshing.

Enterprise Governance, Security & Compliance

Secure your data foundation without slowing down innovation. We implement strict governance frameworks that manage access controls, data lineage, and sensitivity labels across your entire Fabric tenant. Our approach ensures you meet Australian compliance standards while empowering business users to access the trusted data they need.

Data Engineering, Pipelines & Notebooks

Automate your complex data workflows. Our engineers build resilient Data Factory pipelines and custom Python/SQL notebooks to transform raw inputs into analytics-ready datasets. Whether you need real-time streaming or batch processing, we develop efficient ETL/ELT processes that keep your business intelligence up to date.

Power BI Optimisation & AI Integration

Unlock the full potential of Power BI within Fabric. We optimise your semantic models for peak performance and integrate Copilot AI features to enable natural language querying. From designing executive dashboards to enabling self-service analytics, we turn your unified data into clear, actionable insights for every level of the organisation.

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.

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

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Founder of Report Simple

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Our Proven Microsoft Fabric Implementation Process

Our consultants help you plan, implement and optimise Microsoft Fabric solutions that support your business goals.

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Discovery, Architecture & Readiness Assessment

We begin by assessing your current data maturity. Our consultants conduct a deep-dive audit of your existing infrastructure - whether it’s SQL Server, Azure Synapse, or disparate on-premise sources - to identify migration pathways. We define your core business objectives and determine the optimal Fabric capacity and architecture to meet your performance and budget needs.

Strategic Roadmap & OneLake Design
2

Before moving data, we design the destination. We create a tailored Microsoft Fabric strategy that maps out your unified data estate, including OneLake structure, security roles, and governance policies. This phase delivers a clear blueprint for how data will flow from source to insight, ensuring your new environment is scalable, secure, and ready for AI integration.

Migration, Development & Enablement
3

We execute the transition with precision. Our team handles the technical migration of pipelines, notebooks, and semantic models into Fabric, ensuring zero downtime. Once the platform is live, we focus on user enablement - providing hands-on training for your analysts and engineers so they can confidently build, manage, and innovate within the new environment.

FAQ

Why are organisations choosing Microsoft Fabric to modernise their analytics architecture and reduce the complexity created by fragmented data ecosystems?

Organisations choose Microsoft Fabric because traditional analytics environments have grown too scattered and expensive to maintain. Many teams operate separate lakes, warehouses, ETL tools, BI models, and governance layers that produce conflicting metrics and unpredictable refresh behaviour. Fabric unifies these components inside OneLake so ingestion, Lakehouse modelling, Warehouse tables, Delta optimisation, semantic layers, and Power BI all operate in one governed environment. This shift eliminates tool sprawl, improves lineage transparency, strengthens modelling discipline, and reduces cloud waste by consolidating storage and compute. As organisations push toward predictive analytics, Copilot driven exploration, and real time operational reporting, Fabric provides a single foundation that scales naturally rather than forcing teams to maintain disconnected systems that slow decision making.

Fabric also improves operational clarity by bringing transformation logic into a shared engineering framework where pipelines are observable, datasets are certified, and business definitions remain consistent across departments. A financial services team might experience this when previously duplicated revenue logic becomes unified inside the Fabric semantic layer, eliminating reconciliation loops that consumed hours each week. Fabric allows organisations to move from reactive reporting to proactive decision intelligence, where forecasting, anomaly detection, governance rules, and automated operational insights become part of everyday workflows. This makes analytics more accessible, more predictable, and better aligned with long term strategic goals.

How does Microsoft Fabric improve governance, auditability, and metric consistency for organisations that need dependable reporting across finance, operations, and executive teams?

Microsoft Fabric improves governance by restructuring the entire data lifecycle into a single controlled environment. Ingestion pipelines, Lakehouse transformations, Warehouse layers, semantic modelling, and report outputs all follow predictable rules, making lineage clear and reducing the risk of metric drift. When Fabric is implemented well, every dataset inherits naming standards, validation logic, refresh patterns, and access controls that remain stable even as the organisation grows. This removes the ambiguity that emerges when teams build silos of unsupported SQL scripts, undocumented transformations, or business logic scattered across spreadsheets and legacy tools. Organisations that require strong audit trails, such as those in healthcare, finance, logistics, and public services, gain confidence that every metric comes from a verified source.

Report Simple strengthens this governance model by designing Fabric architectures that support both transparency and long term maintainability. We help organisations replace unclear modelling practices with structured Warehouse tables, certified semantic layers, and lineage patterns that remove guesswork. Teams no longer debate which dataset is correct because Fabric enforces a single definition of truth that Power BI inherits automatically. This combination of engineering precision and emotionally intelligent guidance ensures organisations can defend decisions, satisfy regulatory requirements, and maintain clarity even as data volumes grow. Governance becomes intuitive rather than restrictive, enabling users to explore insights without compromising control.

How does Microsoft Fabric Consulting accelerate legacy modernisation, and what does the migration process look like when outdated systems are replaced with a unified data cloud model?

Microsoft Fabric Consulting accelerates legacy modernisation by mapping existing dataflows, warehouses, spreadsheets, and integration tools into a structured Fabric blueprint that aligns with operational reality. Many organisations rely on pipelines built over years of incremental fixes, leading to unclear ownership, manual dependencies, and unpredictable refreshes. Fabric consolidates these components using Lakehouse zones, Delta optimisation, curated Warehouse models, and unified semantics that replace scattered logic with a predictable cloud architecture. During migration, consultants analyse source systems, define ingestion patterns, rebuild transformation logic inside pipelines, and ensure all Warehouse and semantic layers reflect the organisation’s true business rules. This replaces legacy systems with a coherent structure that is faster, easier to govern, and ready for predictive workloads.

An organisation might experience this during a financial consolidation migration. Instead of maintaining separate SQL scripts, Excel workbooks, and departmental cubes, Fabric ingests all sources into Delta Lakehouse layers, validates transformation logic through automated pipelines, and publishes a certified semantic model that feeds Power BI. Teams immediately notice faster reporting cycles, reduced reconciliation workload, and clearer lineage. As Copilot and predictive features become part of the ecosystem, Fabric ensures models are reliable, definitions remain stable, and AI operates on curated datasets rather than inconsistent spreadsheets. Migration becomes the catalyst for stronger decision intelligence, lower cloud cost, and a simpler data environment that grows with the business.

How does Report Simple guide organisations through Microsoft Fabric adoption so the environment remains stable, intuitive, and aligned with both engineering and business needs?

Report Simple guides organisations through Microsoft Fabric adoption by designing architectures that feel simple and intuitive even when underlying systems are complex. Our approach focuses on understanding how data moves, where ownership breaks down, and which definitions cause friction between teams. We restructure Lakehouse layers, Warehouse tables, pipelines, and semantics so they reflect real operational behaviour rather than theoretical modelling. Clients often describe our communication as clear, calm, and human centred, allowing them to understand Fabric without feeling overwhelmed. We document logic thoroughly, validate business rules with decision makers, and ensure models scale smoothly as analytics maturity grows.

We also place strong emphasis on performance tuning, responsible cost governance, and long term maintainability. Fabric introduces powerful serverless compute and unified storage patterns, but without structure costs can rise unpredictably. Report Simple designs ingestion frequencies, Warehouse partitions, Delta optimisation rules, and semantic conventions that balance performance with efficiency. As organisations prepare for predictive analytics, scenario modelling, ESG reporting, and Copilot assisted insights, we ensure Fabric provides a stable foundation without unnecessary complexity. The result is an environment that empowers analysts, supports governance, strengthens operational reporting, and remains reliable for years ahead.

How does Microsoft Fabric Consulting support AI assisted analytics, and why do analysts remain essential even as automation becomes more advanced?

Microsoft Fabric Consulting supports AI assisted analytics by establishing the structured datasets, consistent semantics, and governed pipelines that predictive systems require. AI cannot resolve conflicting logic or incomplete lineage, so Fabric ensures every metric is defined clearly and every dataset follows a unified modelling pattern. When Fabric powers Copilot exploration, anomaly detection, or real time forecasting, AI depends entirely on the accuracy of these structures. A transportation organisation might experience this when operational telemetry, maintenance records, and workforce scheduling data are merged into Delta Lakehouse layers that provide AI with stable, trusted inputs. Fabric removes the uncertainty that comes comes from spreadsheet driven logic and ensures predictions reflect real operational behaviour.

Analysts remain essential because AI lacks context, nuance, and domain understanding. Machines can generate models, but they cannot confirm whether the underlying definitions support business goals. Analysts validate assumptions, interpret economic signals, refine transformation logic, and design decision pathways that AI cannot infer. Report Simple ensures organisations adopt AI in a responsible, governed manner that protects accuracy, enhances decision intelligence, and strengthens operational confidence. Rather than replacing analysts, AI becomes a tool that accelerates their impact inside a Fabric environment designed for clarity and trust.

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Related services & resources

Find the perfect fit for your data strategy. Microsoft Fabric is a game-changer for unified analytics, but choosing the right platform requires careful comparison. Whether you need to integrate Fabric with your existing stack or evaluate alternatives, we provide the full spectrum of data services to guide your decision.

Extend Your Fabric Environment

These platforms are often used alongside Microsoft Fabric for maximum impact

  • Excel - Connect directly to OneLake for live financial modelling without manual data exports.

  • Power BI - Leverage 'Direct Lake' mode to visualise billions of rows instantly with zero latency.

  • Power Automate - Trigger real-time business actions and alerts based on live changes in your data.

Compare Cloud Data Platforms

Not the perfect match? These services might be what you’re looking for

  • Azure - Customise your cloud infrastructure or plan your migration from Azure Synapse.

  • BigQuery - Compare Fabric’s unified capacity model against serverless analytics speed.

  • Snowflake - Evaluate the trade-offs between Fabric’s all-in-one SaaS and multi-cloud warehousing.

Specialised Fabric Resourcing

Find the right mix of Microsoft Fabric skills to deliver, optimise, or scale your solutions

Fabric Success Stories & Applications

Discover how Microsoft Fabric is used across different industries and scenarios

  • Affordable Car Loans- See how we unified lending data to deliver real-time operational visibility for this finance leader.

  • Zoho- Break down CRM silos. Discover how we centralise Zoho data into OneLake for a 360-degree business view.

  • Nonprofit- Drive donor confidence. Learn how Fabric creates a single source of truth for impact reporting and transparency.

  • Choosing the Right Data Management Tools- Strategic Guide: How to assess if Microsoft Fabric is the right investment for your data maturity level.


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