Your Fabric environment costs more than it should. Here is why.
A forensic review that identifies what is driving cost, what is degrading performance, and what to fix first. Every finding comes with a prioritised action plan.
Fabric cost problems are rarely just pricing problems
Rising cost usually comes from deeper architectural and operational issues that standard monitoring does not surface clearly. The real causes are typically:
This audit is right for you if
Capacity spend is rising but no one can clearly explain what is driving it.
Pipelines are slower than expected with no identified root cause.
There is no clear visibility into what is consuming capacity, or when.
Reports throttle or slow down at peak usage times.
Semantic model refreshes are failing or running inconsistently.
Teams are unsure whether to scale capacity or optimise workloads first.
This is not a workload review. It is a systems diagnosis
Most reviews examine individual workloads in isolation. This audit examines the relationships between capacity configuration, pipeline engineering, semantic model design, storage architecture, and workload scheduling as a connected system. Findings are prioritised by business impact, implementation effort, risk reduction, and cost savings. The outcome is a practical remediation roadmap, not a list of technical observations.
Avoid unnecessary capacity upgrades
Identify hidden capacity consumption
Improve pipeline performance while reducing capacity consumption
Reduce report throttling and improve user experience
A prioritised optimisation roadmap
Increased confidence in platform performance
Six areas examined across your Fabric environment
The specific diagnostic framework and methodology applied within each area are proprietary to this engagement and delivered exclusively as part of the audit report.
Capacity and licensing
Whether your current SKU and licensing structure is costing more than your workloads actually require.
Workload patterns
What is consuming capacity, when, and whether scheduling conflicts are degrading performance across the platform.
Pipeline architecture
Where design inefficiencies are simultaneously slowing delivery and driving unnecessary capacity consumption.
Storage efficiency
Whether your data layer is structured to support both query performance and cost efficient storage.
Semantic layer and reporting load
How semantic model design and refresh patterns are affecting both report speed and overall capacity health.
Workspace configuration
Platform settings and structural decisions quietly working against both cost efficiency and performance reliability.
A structured deliverable. Not a list of observations
Every audit produces the same structured set of outputs.
Five operational domains, scored and ranked
The audit examines six technical assessment areas. Those findings are then consolidated into a five domain operational maturity model that measures the overall health of your Fabric platform. Each domain receives a rating, improvement recommendations, and prioritised next steps.
Illustrative positions shown. Actual markers are set during the audit, from your evidence.
Simple, structured, and fully remote
Complete the intake form
Confirms your environment is within scope. Takes under two minutes. No commitment at this stage.
Scope confirmed, proposal issued
I review your intake details and send a scoped proposal to your email within 24 hours.
Read only access provided
No admin rights required. No changes are made to your environment at any point during the audit.
Audit completed
I conduct the full diagnostic across all six areas and compile findings into the structured report.
Report and readout delivered
Final report delivered within the agreed timeframe, followed by a live readout session with your team.
What is covered. What is not
Environments exceeding these parameters are scoped individually. The intake form confirms fit before any commitment is made.
Not included
- Access provisioning or infrastructure changes during the audit
- More than one readout session
- Support beyond 14 days of report delivery
- Workspaces or capacities outside the agreed scope boundary
One price. No surprises
If you decide to act on the findings, implementation can be scoped separately.
Emmanuel Obikili
Lead Architect / Engineer, Kilvora
Over 10 years delivering enterprise data platform and analytics solutions across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Synapse, SQL Server, and Azure Data Factory. Sectors served include financial services, professional services, public sector, and retail. I specialise in helping organisations diagnose platform cost, performance, governance, and reliability issues before they become expensive operational problems.
Every audit is conducted personally by me. Not delegated.
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Who is this audit not suitable for?
This audit is not the right fit if you are still evaluating whether to adopt Fabric, have no production workloads running yet, or have no active Fabric capacity. The audit is designed for environments already in production and already incurring costs. If you are at an earlier stage, my Fabric Readiness Assessment is the better starting point, and the findings here would have limited practical value.
Do you need admin access, and will this affect our production systems?
No to both. The audit is conducted with read only access. No changes are made to your environment at any point, and there is no risk of disruption to production workloads.
What do you need from us to get started?
Complete the short intake form. Once scope is confirmed, I will request read only access to the relevant Fabric capacities and workspaces. No complex onboarding required.
Is implementation of the findings included?
No. The audit delivers findings, recommendations, and a prioritised roadmap. Implementation is a separate engagement and is discussed at the readout session if you choose to proceed.
Can this be done fully remotely?
Yes. The audit is conducted entirely remotely. The readout session is delivered via Teams or your preferred video platform.
We are relatively new to Fabric. Is this still suitable?
Yes. If you are already incurring capacity costs or seeing performance issues, the audit is relevant regardless of how long you have been on Fabric.
What happens after the audit?
You receive the report, attend the readout session, and have 14 days of post delivery support for questions on the findings. Many clients then proceed with a follow on optimisation engagement.
Ready to find out what is really driving your Fabric costs?
Complete the short form and I will confirm scope and send a proposal within 24 hours. No commitment required at this stage.
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