Microsoft Fabric governance and economics
Know who consumes shared Fabric capacity, what can safely change and whether it worked.
FabOps connects consumption with ownership, prioritises governed interventions and verifies the result with evidence that platform and finance teams can use.
Available through Azure Marketplace.
FabOps is an operational control plane for Microsoft Fabric governance, consumption and performance visibility. It creates a defensible showback model from available evidence and identifies what may be safe to change, what needs investigation and what should remain untouched.
The operating problem
The bill is visible. Ownership and intervention evidence are harder to establish.
Shared Fabric capacity makes it difficult to connect consumption with business ownership, service value and safe operating decisions. FabOps creates a common evidence layer for platform, finance and delivery teams.
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Unclear ownership
Workspaces and workloads consume shared capacity without a reliable business owner or an agreed review process.
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Disputed cost
Finance sees the total bill but cannot explain which services, teams or changes are driving it.
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Reactive operation
Capacity decisions are made after incidents, with limited evidence of what changed or whether the intervention worked.
FabOps is strongest in shared estates where cost, ownership or reliability pressure has become material.
Governed operating decisions
Three decisions FabOps helps you make
FabOps turns technical estate data into a controlled operating conversation across platform, finance and business ownership.
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Who owns the consumption?
Connect workloads, teams and accountable owners using the available consumption, workspace and operating evidence.
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What can safely change?
Prioritise interventions using expected value, operating risk, business criticality and the customer's capacity model.
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Did the intervention work?
Compare the estate before and after the change using the measures agreed at the start.
One operating view
See the estate through the decisions it requires
FabOps brings capacity pressure, ownership, governance status and priority action into one view. Each signal should lead to a named review, an agreed intervention or a documented decision to leave the estate unchanged.
- 1 Governance status Controls that are present, missing or overdue.
- 2 Priority action The next intervention to review and the evidence supporting it.
The interface shown is a current FabOps portal view. Available measures depend on the connected Fabric estate, enabled data sources and selected service level.
Measured in live estates
Evidence from enterprise Fabric operations
FabOps is evaluated through operating outcomes, customer evidence and defined measurement periods.
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63%
Efficiency benchmark
Validated across multiple enterprise deployments.
Enterprise benchmark
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99.9%
Refresh reliability
Measured on critical reporting in an approved customer context.
Customer-approved outcome
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30–50%
Fabric resource cost-reduction potential
Identified through FabOps Safe Consumption. Financial treatment depends on capacity commitments, growth plans, contractual arrangements and whether capacity can be reduced or repurposed.
Customer-attested potential
Platform and managed control
Choose the operating model that fits the estate
FabOps can be used as a platform, paired with regular Onyx review or introduced through a Fabric Economics Assessment. Organisations with unclear ownership, baseline or financial treatment should start with the assessment.
How do you want to use FabOps?
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Standard
Platform access for a defined estate
£299/month
Up to 20 workspaces
For a team managing a defined Fabric estate and needing a consistent view of capacity, ownership and governance.
- Governance Scoring
- Cost Optimisation
- Performance Monitoring
- Standard support
- Copilot for Fabric
- AI Recommendations
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Professional
Broader control for a shared estate
£599/month
Up to 100 workspaces
For organisations with wider shared use that need deeper analysis, prioritisation and regular operating review.
- Everything in Standard
- Copilot for Fabric
- AI Recommendations
- Model Optimisation
- Priority Support
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Enterprise
Assessment-led managed control
Custom
Unlimited workspaces
For complex estates that need a Fabric Economics Assessment, managed control, agreed service levels and a commercial structure matched to the environment.
- Everything in Professional
- Dedicated Expert
- Custom configurations
- Support terms agreed during qualification
- Advanced integrations
Features, estate limits, support and service cadence vary by option. The entitlement table below is the authoritative comparison.
Available through Azure Marketplace to support a streamlined commercial route.
Fabric Economics Assessment
Start with the economics of the estate
We will review the current Fabric footprint, ownership model and operating pressure, then confirm whether FabOps is the right next step.
The first conversation will confirm the trigger, estate fit and appropriate commercial route.