Plan the Fabric move before capacity costs or audit gaps surprise you.
Gambill Data is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program member providing Microsoft Fabric consulting for teams moving Azure Synapse workloads into Fabric, with a practical focus on migration readiness, CU review, governance, audit visibility, and cutover planning.
For leaders who need to understand what should move, what should change, what it may cost to operate, and what evidence security, audit, finance, and executives will need after the migration.
Synapse to Fabric migration planning across the workloads that matter.
The review connects technical migration paths to business risk: reporting trust, platform cost, access, ownership, governance, and the ability to operate the new environment after cutover.
Dedicated SQL pools
Review schema, warehouse design, performance assumptions, data movement patterns, and what should move into Fabric Data Warehouse.
Spark notebooks
Assess Synapse Spark notebooks, libraries, environments, job definitions, data access patterns, and refactoring effort before migration.
Pipelines and data movement
Map Synapse pipelines, Azure Data Factory dependencies, copy patterns, schedules, failure recovery, and handoff expectations.
OneLake and lakehouse architecture
Clarify what belongs in OneLake, lakehouses, warehouses, shortcuts, semantic models, and downstream reporting paths.
Power BI and semantic models
Connect migration choices to trusted metrics, report refresh expectations, business definitions, and user impact.
Security and cutover planning
Sequence access, workspace ownership, validation, rollback paths, and stakeholder communication before go-live pressure starts.
Make Fabric capacity risk visible before the pilot becomes production.
Fabric changes the operating conversation from isolated service cost to shared capacity behavior. The review helps leaders understand CU consumption patterns, throttling risk, workload timing, reservation and scaling tradeoffs, and what to monitor in the Fabric Capacity Metrics app.
Keep access, activity, and ownership explainable after the move.
A migration is not ready just because objects moved. Regulated, operational, and executive-facing teams need clear ownership, access patterns, activity traceability, and evidence paths that can be explained through the Purview audit log and internal governance practices.
A practical migration review, not a generic platform pitch.
The goal is to decide what should happen next: pilot, staged migration, refactor, governance cleanup, cost monitoring, or a narrower implementation path.
Current-state inventory
Identify Synapse workloads, data stores, pipelines, reports, ownership, pain points, cost concerns, and audit expectations.
Migration fit and sequencing
Separate workloads that can move cleanly from workloads that need refactoring, redesign, validation, or a staged cutover.
Cost and governance readout
Create a practical view of capacity, CU risk, audit visibility, access, and evidence gaps before implementation momentum builds.
Roadmap and next moves
Leave with a sequenced plan for pilot, migration, validation, stakeholder communication, and selective implementation support.
What the review should make clearer.
A migration readiness map across Synapse dedicated SQL pools, Spark notebooks, pipelines, Fabric Data Warehouse, OneLake, and Power BI.
A capacity and CU review narrative that explains cost risk, throttling risk, workload timing, and what the Fabric Capacity Metrics app should monitor.
An audit and governance review covering ownership, access, Purview audit log readiness, activity traceability, and evidence needs.
A prioritized roadmap for pilot scope, migration sequencing, validation, cutover planning, and team handoff.
Common Synapse to Fabric migration questions.
Is this full Microsoft Fabric implementation?
It can include selective implementation support, but the starting point is Microsoft Fabric consulting for migration readiness, architecture, cost, governance, audit visibility, and roadmap sequencing.
Can this help before we choose Fabric?
Yes. A Synapse to Fabric migration review is useful before a final platform decision because it makes workload fit, capacity risk, governance gaps, and reporting impact more visible.
What does Microsoft partner mean for this engagement?
It means Gambill Data participates in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. The review stays grounded in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, capacity, governance, and migration planning without claiming Microsoft endorsement, guaranteed outcomes, or a formal Solutions Partner designation.
What does a Fabric migration review cost?
A scoped Gambill Data Fabric migration review typically lands in a fixed-fee range of about $12,000 to $40,000, depending on the number of Synapse workloads, pipelines, reports, interviews, capacity analysis, audit evidence review, and roadmap depth. Smaller readiness reviews stay near the lower end; multi-workspace, audit-heavy migration planning pushes toward the higher end. This is a project range, not hourly billing.
Will this guarantee lower Fabric costs?
No. The goal is a clearer cost and CU review, better monitoring questions, and more defensible decisions before spend expands.
Do we need a perfect Synapse inventory first?
No. The first review can start with partial documentation, known pain points, key reports, pipeline schedules, workspace ownership, and the workloads leaders are most worried about.
Need a senior read before the Fabric migration gets expensive?
Start with a focused review of migration readiness, capacity and CU risk, audit visibility, governance, and the most useful next move.