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Favorable Review
Product: Microsoft Fabric
Faster reporting and integration, but initial setup remains complex
Critical Review
Product: Microsoft Fabric
Unclear Cost Structure and Resource Usage Create Challenges in Software Management
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likes
The unified workspace is genuinely the standout feature. Before Fabric, getting a clean dataset ready for reporting meant coordinating across multiple teams and tools. Now, much of that workflow lives in one place, which has improved both speed and visibility. The integration with Power BI feels natural it doesn't feel bolted on, which matters when you're working with business stakeholders who live in dashboards. On the performance side, once things are properly configured, query speeds on large datasets have been noticeably better than what we were getting before.
May 29, 2026
dislikes
The cost control of this software platform is subpar to say the least. You have no clue how many CUs you're about to use when using one of the tools of the platform. You have to try which tools will be of best use for your use-case since the documentation is lacking in a lot of areas because there are so many products bundled up as one that microsoft cant keep up with writing the correct documentation for the updated suites of the software. A lot of the time in early setup stages you have the choice between paying for a oversized capacity and being able to try different things or having a right sized capacity and basically being not able to make mistakes because the capacity wil throttle after using too many CUs (which as i stated earlier are never mentioned while using any service). Other platforms are a lot more transparent about upfront costs and let you know what the tool, calculation, etc. will set you back. The only way to see which of your services sent your capacity into throttle is a self designed power bi dashboard with about half an hour of latency, which wouldnt be too bad as it is quite informative but again the missing of costs per service are what is a dealbreaker.
March 31, 2026
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