Fabric and Power BI Optimization Service
Enhance performance, trim capacity costs and free your team to innovate.
The Challenge Optimizing Power BI and Fabric
Most large organizations face challenges in optimizing Power BI and Microsoft Fabric to prevent throttling, control costs, and maintain performance. Throttling occurs when capacity resources are exceeded, leading to degraded user experiences. Inefficient DAX and M code, complex data models, and inadequate capacity planning contribute to slow report refreshes and increased costs.
The Solution
We offer three tailored services to address your unique optimization needs:
1. Tactical Optimization Projects
When urgent performance issues arise, our tactical optimization service delivers swift resolutions. We specialize in overcoming problems such as optimising code, troubleshooting semantic model limitations, streamlining complex data refresh processes, and rebalancing workloads to ensure peak performance.
2. Health Check Assessment
Our comprehensive health check provides an in-depth evaluation of your current environment. By analyzing performance and reviewing cost optimization opportunities, we offer strategic recommendations for immediate improvements. This service requires minimal security access, making it an ideal starting point for your optimization journey.
3. Managed Optimization Service
Our managed optimization service offers ongoing support through continuous performance monitoring and monthly expert consultations. This proactive approach helps identify potential issues before they impact operations and includes strategic capacity planning to ensure optimal resource utilization. Additionally, our service can include a “help hotline” for quick access to optimization expertise whenever performance issues need immediate attention.
Benefits
Restore Speed: Reports become responsive and usable. Queries and visuals load in milliseconds instead of tens of seconds, leading to a dramatically improved user experience and reduced frustration.
Cut Peak Load: Optimized models and workflows typically reduce peak capacity usage by 25–50%, helping to avoid throttling and ensuring consistent performance during high-demand periods.
Avoid Costly Upgrades: By reducing inefficient resource usage, many clients avoid the need to scale up or out to higher capacity SKUs. This leads to significant cost savings without compromising performance.
Reduce Refresh Times: Streamlined refresh processes ensure that data arrives on time and is ready when users need it. This improves the reliability of scheduled reports and dashboards.
Unlock New Fabric Features: Freeing up capacity makes it feasible to adopt additional Fabric workloads, such as Data Science, Real-Time Analytics, or Data Engineering, without degrading existing performance.
Lower Stress for Analysts and Developers: With fewer issues to troubleshoot and fewer user complaints, teams can shift their focus from firefighting to delivering insights and driving business value.
Improve Reliability and Trust: Faster and more predictable performance builds trust in your analytics environment, encouraging broader adoption and deeper use of data across the business.
Enhance Governance and Control:Optimization efforts often surface governance gaps, enabling better control of dataset sprawl, refresh schedules, and access management.
Increase ROI on Microsoft Fabric Investment:Ensuring that your environment runs efficiently helps maximize the value of your licensing and infrastructure spend.
The Process
- Discovery & Review: We start with a quick onboarding and review of your Power BI and Fabric environment to identify performance issues, cost drivers, and governance gaps.
- Analysis & Recommendations: We analyze DAX, M code, model design, refresh patterns, and capacity usage. You receive a prioritized action plan covering both technical fixes and governance improvements to prevent future issues.
- Implementation & Tuning: We help apply the changes—optimizing code, models, and configurations—while introducing governance practices that support long-term performance and reliability.
- Validation & Handover: We confirm results through monitoring and usage testing, then hand over a summary of improvements and governance recommendations to keep your environment healthy.
Outcomes
Our methods have delivered tangible results for our clients. For instance, we assisted a B2B retail client in reducing peak capacity usage by 25% and eliminating performance throttling. This optimization avoided an $18,000 monthly Fabric upgrade and normalized month-end processing within regular business hours. More importantly, senior developers were able to focus on strategic initiatives instead of managing performance issues.