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

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.