Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Consulting Services

Unifying Data, AI, and Business Intelligence in One Platform

What is Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric is more than an evolution of Power BI—it’s the next generation of enterprise analytics. With Fabric, organisations can unify all their data and AI workloads in a single SaaS experience.

Key Fabric components include:

OneLake – A single, unified data lake for the entire organisation.
Data Factory – Modern data integration and orchestration pipelines.
Synapse Data Engineering – High-performance Spark-based processing.
Synapse Data Warehousing – A cloud-scale, distributed SQL engine.
Synapse Real-Time Analytics – Streaming and event-driven insights.
Data Science & AI – Build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
Power BI – The reporting and visualisation layer, now natively embedded in Fabric.

By bringing these workloads together, Fabric eliminates data silos, accelerates insight delivery, and ensures governance is consistent across the enterprise.

In today’s digital-first world, organisations generate more data than ever before. But data alone isn’t enough—you need a platform that transforms raw information into actionable insights.

That’s where Microsoft Fabric, with Power BI at its core, comes in. Fabric is Microsoft’s unified data and analytics platform, designed to bring together data integration, engineering, warehousing, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence under a single, governed architecture.

Power BI continues to be the industry-leading tool for visual analytics and reporting, now seamlessly integrated into Fabric’s OneLake data foundation. This integration ensures faster performance, improved governance, and end-to-end analytics capabilities that empower organisations to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

At Antares Solutions, we specialise in helping organisations adopt, optimise, and scale Power BI within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.

Power BI in Fabric: What’s New?

Power BI remains familiar to users, but its capabilities are now supercharged by Fabric.

Direct Lake Mode
Query data directly in OneLake with lightning-fast performance, without complex ETL pipelines
Copiot in Power BI
Use natural language prompts to automatically generate visuals, dashboards, and insights
Fabric Workspaces
Power BI workspaces are now enhanced Fabric workspaces, supporting collaboration across BI, data engineering, and data science teams
Unified governance
With Microsoft Purview, organisations get security, compliance, and lineage across all Fabric workloads, including Power BI
Modern Licensing
Power BI Premium capacity (P SKUs) has transitioned to Fabric Capacity (F SKUs), aligning pricing with Fabric’s shared architecture

Why Choose Power BI with Fabric?

1. A Unified Analytics Experience – No more jumping between siloed tools. From data ingestion to visualisation, every step of the analytics lifecycle now exists in one platform.

2. Scalable & Flexible – Fabric capacity (F SKUs) allows organisations to scale up or down depending on business needs, making enterprise analytics more cost-effective.

3. AI-Powered Insights – With Copilot, users can generate reports, uncover patterns, and surface insights in seconds, democratising analytics across all skill levels.

4. Enterprise-Grade Governance – Fabric integrates with Microsoft Purview, ensuring security, compliance, and full visibility of your data estate.

5. Future-Proof Your Analytics – Fabric is the future of Microsoft’s analytics ecosystem. Investing in Power BI within Fabric ensures long-term platform stability and innovation.

How Antares Helps You Succeed with Fabric and Power BI

At Antares, we understand that adopting new technology is as much about strategy and people as it is about tools. Our consulting approach ensures your organisation gets value from Fabric and Power BI quickly and sustainably.

Our services include:

Managed Services – Ongoing optimisation, monitoring, and support.
Power BI & Fabric Strategy – Road mapping analytics adoption aligned with business goals.
Implementation & Integration – Designing, configuring, and deploying Fabric workloads.
Report Development – Building intuitive, engaging, and actionable Power BI dashboards.
Data Modelling – Creating governed data models for self-service and enterprise reporting.
AI & Advanced Analytics – Leveraging Fabric’s data science and Copilot capabilities to go beyond descriptive analytics.
Training & Adoption – Upskilling teams to confidently use Power BI and Fabric.

Getting Started with Fabric and Power BI

Adopting Fabric doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Antares can help you take the right first steps:

1. Run a Fabric Trial – Explore Fabric with an F64 capacity trial that unlocks all workloads, including Power BI

2. Modernise Your Dataflows – Upgrade to Dataflows Gen2 for seamless ingestion and transformation.

3. Leverage Direct Lake Mode – Connect Power BI reports directly to OneLake for instant insights.

4. Explore AI-Driven Analytics – Use Copilot to automatically generate reports and dashboards.

5. Adopt the Fabric Roadmap – Ensure long-term success with Microsoft’s Fabric adoption guidance.

Fabric Fast track with Antares

Unlock the Power of Seamless Data Management with Our
Four Key FastTrack Components

At Antares, we recognise the critical role data plays in driving
informed decisions. Our Microsoft Fabric Accelerator,
embedded within the Antares Fabric Framework,
revolutionises data management, offering a comprehensive
solution designed to enhance efficiency, ensure data integrity,
and accelerate insights.

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FAQ’s

What is Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, and data integration, all in one place.
What are the benefits of Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric simplifies your analytics needs by providing a highly integrated, end-to-end, and easy-to-use product that is designed to work seamlessly with your existing data sources and tools. With Fabric, you can enjoy the following advantages:
– Access to an extensive range of deeply integrated analytics in the industry.
– Shared experiences across experiences that are familiar and easy to learn.
– A unified data lake that allows you to retain the data where it is while using your preferred analytics tools.
– Centralised administration and governance across all experiences.
Is Power BI still available as a standalone product?

Power BI is now part of Microsoft Fabric. While Pro and Premium Per User licences remain available, enterprise capacity is licensed through Fabric (F SKUs).
Do existing Power BI reports still work?

Yes. Your current Power BI content and workspaces remain fully functional. They are simply enhanced by Fabric capabilities.
What are F SKUs?

F SKUs are the new Fabric capacity licences, replacing Power BI Premium P SKUs. For example, F64 capacity replaces the old P1 licence.
What’s the difference between Power BI Pro, PPU, and Fabric?

• Pro: Per-user licence for report sharing.
• PPU: Premium Per User, offering advanced capabilities on a per-user basis.
• Fabric (F SKUs): Capacity-based licences enabling enterprise-wide analytics.
What is OneLake and how does it work with Microsoft Fabric?

OneLake is the foundation on which all the Fabric services are built. It is also known as Microsoft Fabric Lake. It is built into the Fabric service and provides a unified location to store all organisational data where the experiences operate. OneLake is built on top of ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) Gen2. It provides a single SaaS experience and a tenant-wide store for data that serves both professional and citizen developers. OneLake eliminates today’s pervasive and chaotic data silos, which individual developers create when they provision and configure their own isolated storage accounts. Instead, OneLake provides a single, unified storage system for all developers, where discovery and data sharing is trivial and compliance with policy and security settings are enforced centrally and uniformly. All the Microsoft Fabric compute experiences are prewired to OneLake, just like the Office applications are prewired to use the organisational OneDrive. The experiences such as Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Power BI, and Real-Time Analytics use OneLake as their native store. They don’t need any extra configuration.
Is Fabric only for large enterprises?

No. Fabric is designed for businesses of all sizes. Smaller organisations can start with Pro or PPU licences, while larger enterprises benefit from Fabric capacity.
How can I get started with Microsoft Fabric?

To get started with Microsoft Fabric, you need to have a Microsoft 365 account and a Fabric subscription. You can sign up for a free trial or purchase a subscription from the Fabric website. Once you have a subscription, you can access the Fabric portal and start creating your workspaces, lakehouses, and experiences. You can also use the Fabric documentation and tutorials to learn more about the features and capabilities of the platform.