In this session we present the ups and downs, challenges and workarounds as well as timely learnings of our biggest Fabric Migration project to date.
Our customer, the Thommen Group was struggling to maintain a legacy BI & DWH solution built on SQL and Cognos. We were already helping them get the most out of Power BI and were engaged to design a cloud migration strategy for their complete BI stack. After spending weeks designing a modern Lakehouse architecture based on Synapse Analytics and Power BI, Microsoft decided to launch Fabric... Of course we saw the immense potential that Fabric would have in this situation and the customer was brave enough to make the switch and allow us to build the new data platform completely on Fabric.
Let me be blunt: The journey was no walk in the park... Fabric was still very much in a preview state when we started in August 2023, but thanks to the flexibility of the customer and some innovative workarounds we managed to get their new data platform up and running in record time.

In this session you will be presented with following real world examples on:
1) How to implement a Meta Data Driven Orchestration in Fabric
2) How to plan for, test and implement capacities
3) How to design a robust Devops process in Fabric
4) Workspace Design Principles (Security, Governance, Devops)

This sesission will be valuable to both the Fabric Architect confronted with making design decisions as well as business stakeholder to understand the complexities and benefits that a fabric project brings with it.