What is the Fabric Accelerator?
A metadata-driven Microsoft Fabric data platform, pre-built and configured to your sources rather than commissioned from a blank workspace. Bronze, silver and gold layers, a working set of connectors, and the governance a client audit expects, all running before the four weeks are up.
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Bronze, silver, gold
Raw data lands untouched, gets cleaned and conformed into one version of each entity, then modelled to how you actually report.
Metadata-driven ingestion
A new source is a configuration entry against the same framework, not a new pipeline built from scratch.
Governance by default
PII masking, slowly changing dimension history, access control and an audit trail ship with the platform, not added later as an afterthought.
Monitoring built in
Every pipeline run is logged; health scoring flags a refresh that's drifted before it reaches a dashboard.
CI/CD across environments
Configuration changes are versioned and deployed the same way for every client, not hand-edited in production.
Connects to what you already run.
Every connector lands through the same ingestion framework, so a new source is a configuration exercise, not a new build.
- Dynamics 365
- Business Central
- Dynamics F&O
- Dataverse
- SQL Server
- SharePoint Lists
- Excel
- CSV and Text Files
- JSON
- Xero API
- REST APIs
Not on the list? New connectors are added to the framework, not bolted on as one-off code — ask on the call.
The difference isn't how fast we work. It's where we start.
Everyone else begins with a blank page: discovery workshops, an architecture phase, then months spent building the ingestion framework itself before a single number can be trusted. The Fabric Accelerator begins with that framework already built and proven elsewhere, so the four weeks you spend with us go on configuring it to your systems, not inventing it from scratch.
Everyone else · starts here
First trusted reporting: month 8
Six roles, billed by the day, producing what a product already contains.
Fabric Accelerator · starts here
First trusted reporting: week 4
The first version already got thrown away. Just not on your budget.
Built for what comes next.
Whatever you want your data to do in three years, it will be standing on the same thing: a layer where the numbers are right and everyone can see why. Get that wrong and every later ambition inherits the problem. Get it right once and everything after it becomes cheaper.
Reporting
Dashboards and Power BI that everyone agrees on
AI
Copilot and Fabric AI answering from data you trust
Agents
Automation that acts on figures, not guesses
Your trusted data layer
Growth
New systems arrive as configuration rather than another project. Acquiring a business stops being a data crisis.
Governance
Definitions agreed once and applied everywhere, with every change logged and every load traceable.
Scalability
The same platform runs on the smallest Fabric capacity and the largest. Growing changes a setting, not the design.
Security
Personal data masked at the point of query, access through your existing Microsoft identity, all inside your tenant.
Confidence
When someone challenges a number, you can answer it rather than go away and investigate.
This is the layer your reporting and your AI connect to.
Not the other way round.
A product, not a project.
A project is bought before it exists. You fund the design, the build and the corrections, and you find out what you bought at the end. A product is the opposite. It exists, it has already been through all of that, and the only question left is how it fits you.
Week one is configuration, not architecture
The medallion structure, the ingestion framework, the PII masking, the slowly changing dimensions: all of it is built and proven. Connecting your sources is a configuration exercise. There is no first version to throw away, because the rework happened long before you arrived, on somebody else's timeline.
Your team can run it after we leave
Adding a new source is a configuration change, not a development project, with no bespoke code to reverse-engineer and no undocumented logic living in one person's head. Because it's a framework, it can be documented and taught, so the platform stops being a single point of failure the day it goes live.
Two numbers, both agreed before anything starts.
Deployment
£20,000*
Starting price · typically live in 4 weeks
- Scope and cost agreed before we begin
- The full platform, configured to your sources
- Governance, masking and history included
- Documentation and handover to your team
*Final price depends on the number and type of source systems. We tell you the figure before you commit, not after discovery.
Managed service
From £1,000
Per month · four tiers
- Every tier includes the platform licence and framework maintenance
- Paid tiers add monitoring, included consultancy days and priority support
- Up to 10% off, for paying annually and consolidating your Fabric licensing
- Move up or down a tier as your platform grows
Full tier detail below. The platform is built so your own team can run it, so the service level you take is a choice about capacity, not a dependency.
Managed service tiers
Continuous improvement days are the important line. They're not support hours held in reserve for when something breaks: they're days spent moving the platform forward, on whatever you decide matters that month.
Essentials
Platform running, your team driving.
£1,000
per month
- Up to 4 source systems
- Platform licence and right to use
- Framework maintenance: runtime compatibility, security patches, stability releases
- Bug fix support
- Helpdesk as you need it, billed at £950/day
- No active monitoring or priority support
Accelerate
Platform managed, team supported.
£3,000
per month
- Up to 8 source systems
- Everything in Essentials
- Weekly monitoring and health review
- 1 continuous improvement day a month, bankable across months
- 1 support day a month, priority queue
- Monthly platform review
- Day rate discounted 10%, at £855
Elevate
Platform managed, business advanced.
£5,000
per month
- Up to 12 source systems
- Everything in Accelerate
- 3 continuous improvement days a month, covering data, apps and enablement
- 2 support days a month
- Named consultant who knows your platform
- Extended health checks
- Data strategy and AI roadmap sessions
- Early access to new features
- Day rate discounted 20%, at £760
Enterprise
Scoped around what you actually need.
Custom
scoped and priced
- Beyond 12 source systems
- Multi-workspace or group structures
- Contractual SLA
- Dedicated engineering resource
- Influence over the product roadmap
- Structured executive reviews
Three ways to pay less for the same service
None of these change what you get. The first two reduce the fee on their own, and because they stack, taking both gives you the third.
5%
Pay 12 months up front
Settle the annual managed service fee in advance and take 5% off it, with no tie-in beyond the year you've paid for.
5%
Consolidate your Fabric licensing
Move your Microsoft Fabric capacity licensing to MPowerUp and take a further 5% off, for qualifying customers. One supplier, one invoice, one place to ask.
10%
Both together
The two combine. On Elevate that's £6,000 off the year. On Accelerate, £3,600.
| Annual managed service | Standard | Either discount | Both |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials · £1,000/mo | £12,000 | £11,400 | £10,800 |
| Accelerate · £3,000/mo | £36,000 | £34,200 | £32,400 |
| Elevate · £5,000/mo | £60,000 | £57,000 | £54,000 |
Discounts apply to the managed service fee only, not to deployment or additional day rates. All figures exclude VAT. Fabric licensing consolidation is subject to qualification.
The alternatives have a price. It just doesn't arrive as an invoice.
Both are legitimate routes and plenty of good businesses take them. Every figure below is built from published UK market rates, not from our estimate of what anyone charges. Sources are listed underneath each column.
Building the team
Year one · before any output
Months one to three you're recruiting. Months three to four they're serving notice. Months four to six they're agreeing an approach. Months six to nine they're building the version you'll rebuild. The salary line then continues for as long as you own the platform, and holiday, sick cover and the first resignation are all still to come.
Salaries: IT Jobs Watch UK medians excl. London, 2026. Employer NI 15% above the £5,000 secondary threshold, pension 3% minimum: HMRC and The Pensions Regulator, 2026–27. Recruitment at 20% of base, mid-point of the 15–25% typical specialist permanent range.
Engaging another partner
26-week build · mid-market partner rates
A partner rate is not a salary. It carries delivery management, utilisation cover, bench time and margin, which is why it sits well above what the same person earns as a contractor. Nobody is full-time for six months, so roles are part-loaded. And because it's bespoke, every later change means going back to the people who built it.
Rates reflect published 2026 UK mid-market consulting benchmarks: specialist firms bill roughly £700–£1,200 a day for mid-level consultants and more for principals and architects. Regional partners sit at the lower end, London at the upper. Loading assumptions shown. Excludes VAT and change control.
Hiring one senior contractor
9–12 months · one pair of hands
The cheapest-looking route on paper, and the one that most often stalls. One person designs, builds, tests and documents alone, with nobody to review the decisions and nobody to cover illness or a better offer. Everything they know is undocumented until the day they hand over, and handovers are where bespoke platforms go to die.
£750/day sits below the 2026 IT Jobs Watch medians for Enterprise Data Architect (£763) and Head of Data Architecture (£775). Agency margin at 30% is typical for contractor placement. 220 billable days allows for holiday and gaps. Excludes VAT.
£0 ———————— £285,000 ———————— £570,000
Same destination. Five very different journeys.
| Fabric Accelerator | One contractor | Another partner | Build a team | Global integrator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A working platform | A blank page | A blank page | An empty org chart | A blank page |
| Time to trusted data | 4 weeks | 9–12 months | 6–9 months | 9–12 months | 6–12 months |
| Indicative cost | From £20,000, fixed | circa £214,500 | circa £293,000 | £262,775, year one | circa £570,000 |
| Ongoing | From £1,000 a month | Rate continues, or they go | Day rate per change | £224,475+ a year in salary | Day rate per change |
| Who maintains it | Your team or us, your choice | Nobody, once they leave | Usually the partner | The person who built it | Usually the integrator |
| Risk if it stalls | Four weeks and a known number | One person, no cover | Sunk cost, months in | Salaries continue regardless | Sunk cost, months in |
Look at how your reporting actually works today.
Now answer these.
Most businesses can answer the first one. Very few get past the third without a pause.
Where do the figures come from?
Not which report. Which system, which extract, which manual adjustment, and which spreadsheet somebody opens on the last Friday of the month to make the two halves agree.
Who maintains the report or dashboard?
Usually one person. Usually not their actual job. Usually something built in a fortnight three years ago to solve a problem, which four departments now quietly depend on.
Do we have a key person dependency?
If that person left on Friday, could anyone else explain how the numbers are produced? It was never a project, so nobody documented it. It was a favour that turned into infrastructure.
How accurate is the data?
This is the one that matters. For most businesses the honest answer is that they don't know, and wouldn't find out until a customer, an auditor or the bank pointed it out.
If those answers were uncomfortable, the question isn't whether to fix it. It's what fixing it costs.
It's already built. The only question is whether it fits you.
Tell us what you're running now and we'll answer that honestly. If it isn't a fit, we'll say so on the call rather than three weeks into a discovery phase.
A client partner first.