Can Microsoft Fabric help me? Let’s find out in three hours.
A free assessment for directors and VPs who own a data platform decision. Three sessions, one written report, and an honest answer either way.
Three a month, because Martin runs all three sessions himself. Applications reviewed within two business days.
You have been told Fabric is the answer.
You have been told Microsoft Fabric is the answer. You have also been told that by three vendors, two analysts, and someone on LinkedIn who has never seen your data.
What you actually need to know is narrower and harder:
Does Fabric solve the specific thing that is costing you time and money right now? What would it look like on your estate, with your source systems and your team? What does it cost to run, honestly, once the pilot is over?
Those questions have real answers. They just take a few hours of looking at your situation rather than at a product page.
Three sessions, one report you own.
Session 1. What actually happens today.
Sixty minutes. You talk, we map. Your source systems, how data moves, where it breaks, what your team spends the week doing. Within 48 hours you get a one page diagram of your current state. Most clients tell us it is the first time anyone has drawn it.
Session 2. Can Fabric help, and where it will not.
Sixty minutes. We come back with a verdict against the problem you named in session 1, in one of three forms: Fabric now, Fabric later, or not Fabric, do this instead. We show the reasoning, including the parts that argue against us.
Session 3. What it would look like.
Sixty minutes. Target architecture, a phased roadmap, capacity sizing with a real cost range, and the first 90 days. If there is a fit, we propose a three week proof of concept with a written success test.
The Fabric Fit Report.
Everything above in one document you own. Written so the person who was not in the room can read it and decide. That is usually the point of it.
Nothing in money. Four things in kind.
Nothing in money. The assessment is free because it is how we decide whether we want to work together, and that is worth three hours of our time.
It does cost you four things:
- A real problem with a number on it. “Our month end close takes nine days.” “We cannot report across the two ERPs.” Not “we want to modernize.”
- Someone who can approve spend, in the room by session 3 at the latest.
- Sixty minutes of prep before session 1: a list of your source systems and one sample report that matters.
- All three sessions booked up front. Assessments that get rescheduled twice do not finish, and a half finished assessment helps nobody.
Built for a decision, not a browse.
This is for you if
You are a director, VP, or head of data at an organization that already has a working reporting estate and a decision to make about what comes next. Typically 3 or more source systems, an existing Power BI or SQL Server footprint, and a team of 1 to 10 people supporting it.
This is not for you if
You are researching Fabric with no timeline and no budget. We will say so quickly, and point you to the Fabric naming conventions guide and the monthly Delivery Patterns note instead. Both are free and neither requires a meeting. If you are already committed to Fabric and want hands on build help, skip the assessment and email info@datamartin.ca directly.
The person who signs the report does the work.
An honest answer to “can Fabric help me” takes about eight hours of work behind the three hours you see. Reading your estate, sizing capacity, drawing an architecture that would survive contact with your actual source systems, and writing it down well enough that your CFO can follow it.
Martin does all of that himself. Not a junior consultant, not a templated deck with your logo dropped on the cover. That is the whole reason the assessment is worth having, and it is also the reason there are three of them a month rather than thirty.
If a month fills up, we will tell you and offer you the next opening. We will not pretend a slot is disappearing to make you hurry.
The honest no. Some of these assessments end with us telling you that Fabric is not your answer right now, and that a smaller fix to what you already own would get you further this year. We would rather tell you that in session 2 than discover it together in month four of a build. You keep the report either way, including the part that says do not hire us yet.
Martin Rojze, DataMartIn.
Microsoft Certified Trainer. Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600), Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700), Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300). Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data and AI. Delivers Microsoft’s Fabric Analyst in a Day workshop.
We Know Data.
Three a month, run by the person who signs the report.
Assessments run in the order applications arrive. Tell us the problem and the number attached to it, and you will hear back within two business days either way.