Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C301

From Fabric to Finance: Building Enterprise-Grade Planning & Forecasting on Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric has fundamentally changed how enterprises store, model, and analyze data — but many organizations still struggle to turn that data into real-time operational and financial decisions.

In this session, we will explore how to design an enterprise-grade planning and forecasting architecture natively on Microsoft Fabric, using Azure SQL, Power BI, and modern data pipelines to enable real-time write-back, scenario modeling, and governed collaboration across large organizations.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Architect a Fabric-native planning environment that supports concurrent users, auditability, and data integrity
• Design write-enabled analytical models using Azure SQL, Fabric Warehouses, and Power BI
• Implement scenario modeling, forecasting, and what-if analysis directly on enterprise data
• Apply governance, security, and performance best practices for mission-critical workloads
• Avoid common pitfalls that cause Fabric-based planning solutions to fail at scale

The session will include a live technical walkthrough of how data moves from Fabric into planning and forecasting workflows, how user inputs are written back securely, and how changes propagate through enterprise-grade models in real time.

Whether you are modernizing an FP&A platform, enabling operational planning, or deploying large-scale analytics on Fabric, this session will provide practical patterns and architecture that you can apply immediately inside your own Microsoft environment.