Operating Your Fabric Environment
Keeping your Fabric environment secure, governed, cost-efficient, and performing at scale takes dedicated operational expertise.
We provide the managed services and engineering support to help you protect and maximize your Fabric investment.

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Faster using Vortex AI and automation
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Cost reduction using the Vortex Engine
30+
Years of analytics and BI experience
Fabric Is More Demanding Than Most Teams Expect
Most organizations that adopt Fabric reach a point where the operational demands outpace what their team was prepared for.
Running costs are hard to explain. Governance feels like it's always one step behind. And the operations team gets pulled into development responsibilities they're not equipped to handle.
If that sounds familiar, you're in the right place, and you're not the only organization dealing with these challenges.
Cost overruns with no visibility
Without active financial monitoring, Fabric workloads will increase with every new workspace, pipeline, report, and AI solution, and most teams don't have the tooling or discipline to track where it's going.
Governance that was never established
Platform drift, duplicated data, stale artifacts, and unsecure data access compounds over time. The longer governance is deferred, the more expensive it is to resolve.
Operational blind spots
Limited alerting, no pipeline observability, and no structured incident response means problems get discovered by users, not by the team responsible for the platform.
Supporting Every Layer of Fabric
Operating a Fabric environment at scale isn't a single discipline, it's a collection of specialized disciplines, each responsible for different functionalities deployed. Every one of these plays an integral part of the operational whole, and without any one of them, critical responsibilities go uncovered.

Operations & Administration
Tenant configuration, capacity settings, workspace management, data security policies, admin portal governance
FinOps and Cost Management
SKU and capacity management, cost optimization, consumption monitoring, overage triage, waste identification
Platform Engineering
Data gateway configuration, pipeline orchestration, Azure service integrations, on-premise and multicloud connectivity
Analytics & Data Engineering
Datawarehouse and Lakehouse build. Semantic model development, Power BI report deployment, performance tuning
Governance
Purview integration, data cataloging, lineage tracking, audit logging, compliance reporting, access policy enforcement
This is the operational breadth that a Fabric environment demands—and it's the breadth that most organizations aren't staffed to cover on their own. We bring all of it from day one.
Operate and Optimize Fabric With Confidence
Whether you need a dedicated team to manage your Fabric platform long-term or targeted expertise to address a focused area, our services are designed to meet you where you are on your Fabric journey.
Fabric as a Service
A managed service for your Fabric platform.
We take on the operational responsibilities for administration, monitoring, governance, security, optimization, and incident management, so your data professionals can focus on building solutions and driving business value.
| "We need a dedicated team that can own the operational health of our Fabric platform so we can focus on building solutions, not fighting fires." |
What we support:
- Administration
- 24x7 Monitoring and Altering
- Incident Management
- User Support
- Workspace governance
- Promotions and deployments
- Data access
- Pipeline management
- FinOps
Services are offered based on 1, 2 and 3 year terms and range from fractional support to a dedicated multi-person team.
Fabric Engineering Services
Hands-on configuration and practical guidance.
Delivered by experienced Fabric engineers, each engagement is prioritized based on your highest-impact gaps—select the domains that matter most to your organization, and we bring the expertise to address them.
| "We need to prove Fabric's value to our stakeholders, with a real working solution that moves the needle, not just a presentation." |
Platform engineering domains:
- Security - Perimeter security, IAM, conditional access, network/endpoint, RBAC, data security, external access
- Workspace Management - User access, workload separation, logical domain separation, tier separation, capacity allocation
- AI Readiness - Agent collaboration, Azure Foundry/Studio integrations, Fabric IQ, agent orchestration and governance
- Capacity Optimization - Capacity allocation, license management, cost control, overage investigations, problem triage
- Purview on Fabric - Compliance, security, audit logging, lineage, data cataloging, tagging
- Integrations - Data sources, data gateways, Azure services, multicloud architectures, on-premise connectivity
- Monitoring & Alerting - Fabric native tooling, Azure monitoring, third-party tooling, client integration, observability
- Health Check - Maintenance recommendations, review cadence, cleanup actions, health monitoring, user adoption
Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner
As a partner, Axis gets early access to Fabric innovations and Microsoft-backed funding to help customers scale their Fabric platform.
Data & AI, Azure
End-to-end capability in modernizing and migrating data and analytics platforms to Azure and Fabric.
Digital & App Innovation, Azure
Expertise in building and modernizing applications on Azure for scalable, cloud-native business solutions.
Infrastructure, Azure
Ability to migrate and optimize large-scale infrastructure on Azure for secure, high-performance cloud operations.
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Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner
As a partner, Axis gets early access to Fabric innovations and Microsoft-backed funding to help customers scale their Fabric platform.
Solutions Partner in Data & AI, Azure
Solutions Partner in Digital & App Innovation, Azure
Solutions Partner in Infrastructure, Azure
See Vortex in Action
Transform Your BI Migration Journey
How Vortex Cuts Migration Effort by 70%
See why leading organizations trust Vortex to break down data silos and create a foundation for analytics innovation in Microsoft Fabric. No more budget overruns, missed deadlines, or transformation fatigue—just faster, more reliable migration with unmatched accuracy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Vortex's rationalization process performs a comprehensive analysis of your Qlik or Tableau environment in two key dimensions. First, it automatically extracts and analyzes all technical aspects including business logic, data transformations, data lineage, models, and calculations used within metrics and KPIs.
Second, it examines user engagement patterns to identify which reports are actually delivering value by analyzing access frequency and usage patterns. The output is a comprehensive Power BI report that serves as your strategic migration guide, with detailed runbooks for each application, data lineage maps, complexity scores, and prioritization recommendations organized into tiers (migrate, consolidate, or retire) - giving you a systematic plan that reduces risk, optimizes outcomes, and ensures you're focusing migration efforts on the most valuable assets first.



