Six weeks. Fixed price. Live Power BI dashboards.
From greenfield Microsoft Fabric tenant to an executive-ready production environment in thirty working days. A dedicated UAT week before go-live. No pilot purgatory. No PowerPoint architecture. Real pipelines, a real semantic model, a real report your business will use on Monday morning.
Engagement Spec
Fabric Accelerator
The pattern we keep seeing
Microsoft Fabric is a brilliant platform. The way it gets bought is not.
Teams buy capacity. They run a proof of concept. Nine months later they still have a proof of concept. The architecture is half built, the dashboards still pull from spreadsheets, and the executive team is asking why.
The Foundations Sprint exists to break that pattern. One priority use case. One focused team. One fixed timeline that gets signed off before we touch the tenant.
By the end of week six you have a governed Fabric environment, a production semantic model, a Power BI report your business has tested and signed off, and a team trained on how to extend it.
"Most Fabric programmes drift because nobody agreed what done looks like. The sprint starts with that conversation, and finishes with the evidence."
Inside the Sprint
One week, one outcome, six times over.
The Fabric Accelerator is a fixed-price engagement that takes your team from a blank Microsoft Fabric tenant to a live, business-signed-off executive dashboard in thirty working days. Six focused stages, each with a single objective, a defined deliverable, and a milestone the business can see in writing. A full week dedicated to UAT before sign-off.
Week
01
Align
Lock the scope before we touch the tenant.
A focused workshop with the people who care about the outcome. We agree the use case, the KPIs that define success, the source systems in play, and who signs off at the end. You leave week one with a delivery plan, not a discovery document.
Outcome.Every stakeholder knows what is being built and what good looks like.
Deliverables
- Use case brief with measurable success criteria
- KPI definitions and target data freshness
- Source system inventory and access plan
- Signed delivery plan with named owners
- Risk and dependency register
Week
02
Provision
Stand up the tenant the right way the first time.
Workspaces are split cleanly across Dev, Test, and Prod. OneLake is structured for the use cases that come after this one. Sensitivity labels, role-based access, and capacity governance are applied from day one. No "we will tidy that up later."
Outcome.A clean, governed foundation that scales to the next use case without rework.
Deliverables
- Fabric workspaces with deployment pipelines
- OneLake structured for medallion architecture
- Security model and sensitivity labels applied
- Capacity governance and workspace policies
- Source connectivity validated end to end
Week
03
Engineer
The data plumbing, built to be inherited.
Source data lands cleanly in Bronze. Conformed, deduplicated, and quality-checked data lands in Silver. Pipelines run on schedule, fail loudly when they should, and write their lineage as they go. No bespoke scripts hiding under a notebook nobody opens.
Outcome.Trusted data ready to power this report and the next five.
Deliverables
- Bronze and Silver Delta tables in OneLake
- Scheduled data pipelines with retry logic
- Data quality framework and validation rules
- Monitoring, alerting, and run history
- Lineage and source-to-target documentation
Week
04
Model & Visualise
The model and the report your executives will actually open.
Gold layer modelling shaped around the KPIs we locked in week one. Star schema. Calculation groups. Row-level security where the data calls for it. The executive report is built and iterated with the business in the room, not delivered as a surprise. Copilot in Power BI is wired up alongside it.
Outcome.A dashboard your leadership team trusts, backed by a model the team can extend.
Deliverables
- Gold layer star schema in OneLake
- Semantic model with measures and calculation groups
- Executive Power BI report, iterated with the business
- Copilot in Power BI pilot configured
- Internal QA pass, ready for business UAT
Week
05
UAT
The week the business owns the build.
Real users run the report against real workflows. Edge cases surface, numbers get reconciled against source systems, and the defect log gets worked down day by day. We sign off on paper, not in a meeting where everyone is too polite to push back.
Outcome.The business has tested it, the numbers tie back to source, and acceptance is in writing.
Deliverables
- Formal UAT test pack with acceptance criteria
- Daily business-led testing and triage sessions
- Source-to-report data reconciliation
- Defect log with severity, owner, and fix turnaround
- Signed UAT acceptance certificate
Week
06
Handover
Make it stick. Walk away when you ask us to.
The final week is about transfer, not dependency. Your team is trained on the platform, the model, and the patterns we used. Runbooks, architecture diagrams, and recorded walkthroughs are handed across. We stay close for fifteen days of hyper-care after sign-off, then step back when you tell us to.
Outcome.Your team owns the platform. We are a phone call away, not a permanent line item.
Deliverables
- Half-day team training session, recorded
- Operations runbook and incident playbook
- Architecture and data model documentation
- Recorded code walkthroughs by component
- 15-day hyper-care with named engineer
What you walk away with
Eight production artefacts. Not a slide deck.
At the end of week six you do not have a roadmap or a recommendation. You have a working environment, a working report the business has tested and signed off, and a team who can extend both.
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Governed Fabric tenant
Dev, Test, and Prod workspaces with deployment pipelines and capacity governance applied.
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Medallion OneLake
Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers organised the way Microsoft recommends. Built to scale.
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Production pipelines
Scheduled, monitored, alerting on failure, with lineage tracked from source to model.
Learn more04
Semantic model
Star schema gold layer with measures, calculation groups, and row-level security.
Learn more05
Executive Power BI report
Designed with the business, signed off by the business. Not a sandbox build.
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Training and runbooks
Recorded walkthroughs, ops runbook, and architecture documentation your team can search.
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15-day hyper-care
A named engineer, a real response time. Issues fixed, not triaged into a backlog.
Learn moreInvestment
Bronze, Silver, Gold. The packages mirror the architecture.
Same six-week shape, three levels of depth. The tiers map to the medallion layers we build for you. Pick the scope that fits the use case - the price is written down before you say yes.
Silver · Standard
Foundations II
Richer scope and an AI layer, in the same six weeks. The default engagement for mid-market clients.
- +3 to 5 source systems (batch)
- +2 Power BI reports, iterated with the business
- +Full medallion plus row-level security
- +Copilot in Power BI tuned and tested
- +Full-day technical training session
- +30-day hyper-care, named engineer
- +Architecture review and roadmap for use case 2
Best for
Multi-source priority where the business wants a real AI layer alongside the dashboard, not in a phase two.
Bronze · Basic
Foundations I
One priority use case, one team, one Power BI report your executives will trust.
- +1 to 2 source systems (batch)
- +1 executive Power BI report
- +Bronze / Silver / Gold medallion in OneLake
- +Copilot in Power BI pilot
- +Half-day team training, recorded
- +15-day hyper-care, named engineer
Best for
First production Fabric use case where the data landscape is contained and the priority is getting one report live.
Gold · Advanced
Foundations III
Production-grade complexity with streaming, agents, and a senior team. Six weeks, no shortcuts.
- +6+ source systems, batch and streaming
- +Multiple Power BI reports plus a Power BI app
- +Real-Time Intelligence, Eventstream, Data Activator
- +Copilot Studio agent built and deployed
- +Two-day technical academy for your team
- +60-day hyper-care with response-time SLA
- +Senior architect, three engineers, dedicated PM
Best for
Enterprise complexity, multiple stakeholders, regulated industries, or a real-time use case the business cannot wait for.
All prices in USD, excluding tax. South Africa engagements can be priced in ZAR. Talk to us about your specific scope.
Fit check
Honest about who this is for. And who it is not.
The Foundations Sprint works when the use case is real and the team can engage for six focused weeks. If that is not your situation, we will say so on the call.
Good fit
The sprint is built for you if
- You have Microsoft Fabric capacity, or you are about to buy it.
- There is one priority use case the business is waiting on.
- You have an executive sponsor who will turn up to week one.
- Your team has the bandwidth to engage for the six weeks.
- You want a production foundation, not a demo or a prototype.
Not yet
We will recommend something else if
- You need ten use cases delivered in parallel. We will scope a programme.
- You are still deciding between Fabric and another platform. Start with readiness.
- Your data sources are still being defined. Week one needs known sources.
- You want staff augmentation rather than a delivered outcome.
- The work is highly regulated and needs months of compliance scoping first.
FAQ
Questions we get on the first call.
Yes. Solv Systems delivers fully remote over Teams and async tooling, aligned to US time zones (EST, CST, and PST). The entire engagement runs remotely from kickoff through to handover.
Even better. Week two becomes lighter and we use the time to retrofit governance, set up the deployment pipelines you have been meaning to put in place, and clean up the workspace structure for what is coming next. You get the same outcome with less rework.
You own the platform. The hyper-care period is included. Most clients move into a smaller monthly engagement for the second use case, or for ongoing optimisation, but there is no pressure to do that. We make a recommendation in week six and you decide.
Yes. Real Time Intelligence in Fabric, Eventstream, and Eventhouse are all in scope where the use case calls for it. We will flag the impact on the six-week timeline during the scoping call so the plan is realistic before we sign.
It is improving fast and the right answer depends on your data and your audience. We pilot it as part of the sprint, alongside the executive report, so your team has a frank view of where it adds value and where it does not by the time you go live. No hype, no oversell.
A senior Fabric architect leads the engagement end to end, supported by two engineers from our Power BI and data engineering teams. You meet them in week one and they stay with you through to handover and hyper-care. No bait and switch to juniors after kickoff.
The scope is locked at the end of week one. If the business raises a change after that, we will discuss whether it lands in the sprint or in a phase two. We do not silently absorb scope and we do not silently slip the timeline. Both decisions get made in writing.
Six weeks from this conversation, you could be looking at a live dashboard.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We will review your use case, your current Fabric estate, and whether the Accelerator is the right fit. If it is not, we will tell you what is.