Move to Microsoft Fabric without blowing up your capacity budget.
Inlet Data gives mid-market teams senior Fabric expertise as fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagements: working code and written analysis, not billable hours and slide decks.
- Fixed fee
- Fixed scope
- Senior-only
- Weeks, not quarters
We modernize teams running
Fabric is easy to start, and easy to overspend on.
The platform is the easy part. Sizing it honestly, sequencing the move, and not overpaying a big integrator to find out. That's where teams get stuck.
Capacity costs creep
Fabric Capacity Units don't map cleanly onto Synapse DWUs or Premium P-SKUs. A lift-and-shift over-provisions, throttles at the worst moment, and the monthly bill compounds.
Integrators bill in quarters
Large SIs scope in quarters, staff your project with juniors, and hand off offshore. You pay for ramp-up and a statement of work before anything runs.
The route isn't clear
You can see Fabric is the destination. What you don't have is the sequence, the honest capacity number, and a roadmap your team can actually execute.
Size your Fabric capacity in about a minute.
Enter your current environment for a rough F-SKU and cost on live Microsoft Fabric pricing. It's an estimate. We pressure-test it properly in a readiness assessment.
Recommended capacity F64. Pay-as-you-go $8,410 per month, $100,915 per year. One-year reserved $5,004 per month, $60,045 per year, about 41% less. Migration complexity Low.
Recommended SKU
F64
Pay-as-you-go
$8,410/mo
$100,915 /yr
1-year reserved
≈41% less$5,004/mo
$60,045 /yr
Migration complexity
Low
Primary cost drivers: hourly refresh, 200 premium-required users.
At F64 and above, report consumers don't need individual Power BI Pro licenses.
Rough estimate, not a quote. Pay-as-you-go has no commitment (pause anytime); 1-year reserved requires an annual commitment for roughly 41% less. Compute only. OneLake storage is estimated separately. Based on Microsoft Fabric F-SKU US-region list prices, June 2026. Final sizing depends on workload patterns and concurrency.
Get a written breakdown for these numbers, or talk it through with us.
Three ways to work with us.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-fee, with a standalone deliverable you can act on. Most teams start with an assessment and decide the rest from there.
Fabric Readiness Assessment
Fixed fee · 2–3 weeks
A clear-eyed audit of your current estate and a target-state Fabric architecture you can actually execute.
- Current-estate inventory across Synapse, SSIS, ADF & Power BI
- Target-state Fabric architecture
- Capacity sizing & cost estimate (F-SKU)
- Phased, sequenced migration roadmap
Capacity & Cost Optimization
Fixed fee · 1–2 weeks
Find out exactly where your Capacity Units go, and get specific, prioritized ways to spend less.
- Workload & CU-consumption analysis
- Throttling, smoothing & bursting review
- Prioritized, specific recommendations
- Estimated savings attached to each change
Migration & Architecture Implementation
Fixed scope · phased
End-to-end migration delivered as working code, not a backlog of recommendations.
- Pipeline modernization (ADF/SSIS → Fabric)
- Medallion lakehouse build: Bronze → Silver → Gold
- Semantic models & Power BI integration
- Governance and capacity setup
Built to be the opposite of a big-SI engagement.
Small, senior, and specialized, so you get expertise without the overhead, the handoffs, or the surprise invoices.
Deliberately specialized
We do Fabric, and only Fabric-adjacent work. No generalist sprawl, no learning on your dime.
Senior-only, no handoffs
The person who scopes your work delivers it. No junior staff, no offshore handoff.
Fixed fee, fixed scope
You know the price and the deliverable before we start. No hourly meter running in the background.
Code over slideware
You get working pipelines and written analysis, not a deck and a list of recommendations.
Honest sizing
We size for what you actually run, not what's easiest to sell. A smaller capacity is a fine outcome.
Weeks, not quarters
A fraction of a big integrator's cost, shipped in weeks. You keep every line of what we build.
Fixed scope. Honest sizing. A roadmap you can execute.
No discovery phase that bills for months. We agree the deliverable up front, design honestly, build in reviewable phases, and hand it over clean.
Scope
We agree the exact deliverable, price, and timeline up front, in a written SOW. No surprises later.
Assess
We inventory your estate and design the target Fabric architecture, sizing capacity honestly.
Build
We implement in phases as working code: pipelines, lakehouse, and semantic models you can review.
Hand over
You get the code, a runbook, and a readout. Your team owns it from day one, no lock-in.
A medallion lakehouse, end to end.
Your sources land in Fabric and are refined layer by layer, raw to business-ready, then served to Power BI through governed semantic models.
Sources
Synapse · SSIS · ADF · SQL
Bronze
Ingested as-is from Synapse, SSIS, ADF and source systems.
Silver
Cleansed, deduplicated and modeled into a trustworthy core.
Gold
Semantic models and curated marts, ready for Power BI.
Power BI
Semantic models · Reports
No surprises. By design.
We don't publish other people's logos or invent case studies. Here is what we actually commit to on every engagement.
to a written readiness assessment
no juniors, no offshore
agreed before we start
every line of code we ship
Questions data leaders ask.
Straight answers. If yours is not here, just ask.
Let's size your Fabric move, honestly.
Tell us where you're starting from. We'll reply within two business days with whether we can help and what a fixed-scope engagement would look like.
- 01
You send a note
A sentence or two about where you're starting from and what's prompting the move.
- 02
We reply within two business days
With an honest read on whether we can help, and a rough fixed-scope outline.
- 03
We book a kickoff
Only if it's a fit. No retainer, no pressure, no junior account manager.