Microsoft Fabric · OneLake · DirectLake
A lakehouse is not a win if reporting still takes four minutes.
Fabric only pays off when the storage format, the semantic model and the query path agree. DirectLake over Delta Parquet is the difference between sub-second and a coffee break.
Scope
What we deliver
OneLake SaaS Architecture
Single unified data lake for your entire enterprise organization stored in open Delta Parquet format.
Data Factory Pipelines
Automate complex data ingestion, transformation workflows, and cloud REST API connectors with 100+ native drivers.
Synapse Data Engineering
High-performance Apache Spark clusters and notebooks for large-scale data transformation, cleaning, and ML pipelines.
DirectLake Power BI Engine
Execute sub-second reporting over multi-terabyte Delta tables directly without data import or slow DirectQuery latency.
Dataverse Link to Fabric
Zero-copy shortcuts connecting Dynamics 365 Finance, Operations, and Business Central directly into OneLake.
Microsoft Purview Governance
Centralized data lineage tracking, row-level security policies, sensitivity labeling, and access auditing.
Questions
Answered straight
Microsoft Fabric integrates directly with the Microsoft ecosystem (Power BI, Dynamics 365, Teams, Office 365) with native OneLake shortcuts, zero-copy architecture, and compute capacity sharing (F-SKUs). Unlike Snowflake or Databricks, DirectLake Power BI reports query Delta Parquet files in OneLake without data movement or duplicate storage costs.
A standard Synapse/ADF to Microsoft Fabric migration takes 4 to 8 weeks depending on pipeline volume. By consolidating disparate SQL Pools, Spark clusters, and ADF pipelines into a single Fabric F64 capacity, enterprises typically achieve 30% to 50% cloud cost reduction.
Fabric features native shortcut links to Dataverse (Link to Fabric). This allows you to query Dynamics 365 F&O, Business Central, and CRM data directly in OneLake in real-time without writing custom ETL pipelines or copying data into external databases.
DirectLake mode allows Power BI to query multi-terabyte Delta tables stored in OneLake with in-memory VertiPaq speed, bypassing slow DirectQuery translations while eliminating data import refresh latencies.
Next
Tell us how long your slowest report takes.
If the answer is minutes on a lakehouse, the storage format, the semantic model and the query path are disagreeing. We will find which one.