FabOps Customer Story
How Ghobash Group gained operational control of its Microsoft Fabric estate with FabOps
How Ghobash Group gained operational control of its UAE-wide Microsoft Fabric estate
Ghobash Group adopted FabOps as the operational control plane for its Microsoft Fabric estate — surfacing capacity, governance, and cost insights that native tooling couldn't provide, and producing a clear improvement roadmap across performance and governance domains.
The Challenge
Ghobash Group, a UAE multi-sector conglomerate operating across diversified industries (see ghobash.com), needed visibility across its Microsoft Fabric estate that native Fabric and Power BI tooling could not provide alone. Specifically, the data team needed consolidated visibility into capacity utilisation per application, dashboard development activity at the platform level, and cost optimisation opportunities — none of which were available in a single pane of glass.
- Capacity utilisation not visible per application via native Fabric tooling
- Dashboard development and workspace activity not consolidated at the platform level
- Cost optimisation opportunities required manual investigation across multiple sources
The Solution
FabOps surfaced the capacity utilised for each application — visibility across the whole estate that wasn’t available through native Fabric or Power BI tooling alone. Ghobash’s team gained the ability to track dashboard development activity and workspace activity at the platform level. FabOps also surfaced specific quick-win cost optimisation opportunities and provided AI-powered recommendations across pillar categories of governance, performance, modernisation, optimisation, collaboration, cost efficiency, and data quality.
Capacity Utilisation Visibility
Per-application CU visibility across the Fabric estate, surfaced in a single dashboard
Dashboard Governance
Track dashboard development activity and workspace activity at the platform level
Cost Optimisation Opportunities
Quick-win recommendations and a clear improvement roadmap across performance and governance
The Results
Within the trial period Ghobash adopted FabOps as a managed control plane — moving from periodic manual review to always-on monitoring and alerting. The platform demonstrated measurable improvement across the FabOps scoring categories during the trial period, with specific improvement evidence available from the FabOps environment.
“FabOps gave us visibility across our Microsoft Fabric estate that we couldn't achieve through native tooling alone — particularly around capacity utilisation and dashboard governance. Within the trial period we identified specific cost optimisation opportunities and built a clear improvement roadmap across performance and governance. FabOps has become the operational control plane we needed to manage our Fabric environment as we scale.”
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