Microsoft Fabric consultant · Lyon

Microsoft Fabric consultant in Lyon: we come and look at your data on site.

Your group has a plant, a subsidiary or a shared service centre in the Lyon area? We are in Saint-Priest, on its outskirts. Eleven expert consultants, projects of 30 to 150 days, and one speciality: heterogeneous information systems.

Business Central instances consolidated on a single model

The number changes, the model stays one

Projects delivered since 2019: 100+
Clients supported: 70+
Expert consultants: 11
From Lyon Part-Dieu to our offices: 25 min

On site

Where we are, and how far from you

Our offices

Saint-Priest (69800), France

30 rue Champ Dolin, twenty-five minutes from Lyon Part-Dieu.

From our offices

Lyon Part-Dieu25 min
Bourg-en-Bresse1 h
Grenoble1 h 15
Saint-Étienne1 h

The criterion that matters

What sets a Fabric expert apart from a platform reseller

Microsoft Fabric is easy to present and hard to deliver. The difference between the two does not show on a brochure: it shows in the first question you are asked.

An integrator who talks architecture before seeing your data is selling a catalogue. Everyone has the platform. What commands a fee is reconciling the charts of accounts of six subsidiaries, finding out why a free field was diverted from its purpose, and matching a report to the euro with the ERP.

Where to start

Recognise the shape of your project

Three shapes of project. Direct sources: few systems, Power BI connects straight to them. Consolidation: several systems to reconcile, a platform sits in between and aligns the reference data. Business application: the data has yet to exist, an entry application produces it before it joins the analysis chain.

Three shapes of project. Recognise yours.

The right architecture depends on the number of systems to reconcile, more than on the size of the company.

One team covers all three. Most companies start with the first shape and move to the second the day a second system comes into play.

Our method

The medallion architecture, applied to every project

This is the model we apply systematically. Its strength: business rules live in one single place, so they can no longer diverge from one report to the next.

BronzeIngestion: Raw data, exactly as the systems produce it. ERP, CRM, Dataverse, SQL databases, files.
SilverCleaning: Cleaning rules and business alignment. This is where the charts of accounts of six subsidiaries are reconciled.
GoldSemantic model: Aggregated and optimised data. One source of truth, shared by every report and every department.

Our ground

The scopes we work on

Types of Fabric scope delivered
Context	Sources consolidated	Order of magnitude
Multi-company group	Six Business Central SaaS instances, full scope	Long project, complete chain delivered
Trading group	Seven Business Central SaaS instances and seven CRMs	Long project, sales and finance consolidation
Industrial group	SAP, Business Central, Dynamics NAV, Sage and bespoke line-of-business applications	Long project, heterogeneous information system

Clients are not named, volumes are real. What these three scopes share: each started with a heterogeneous information system.

Proximity

What being next door changes

On a Fabric project, most of the work happens on the data and can be handled remotely. Two moments genuinely gain from being face to face: the scoping workshops, where screens are read together and the people who do the work are questioned, and the acceptance workshops, where figures are compared one by one with the ERP.

We work in Lyon, in the Rhône department and across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, as well as in French-speaking Switzerland. And you are welcome to spend a day in our offices in Saint-Priest: it is the best way to find out who you will be working with.

What sets us apart

The rigour of a freelancer, the solidity of a team

The market offers two solid models, each strong on one half of the need. The large IT services firm brings the capacity and continuity of an organisation; the freelancer brings sharp expertise and the commitment of someone who delivers what they sold. We built a third way that holds both.

We are 11 expert consultants, and we keep training continuously because Fabric moves fast. The consultant who scoped your project is the one who delivers it.

Frequently asked

What people ask before choosing an integrator

How do you recognise a genuine Microsoft Fabric expert?

Three signs. First, they start from your sources and not from the platform: an integrator who talks architecture before seeing your data is selling a catalogue. Second, they tell you in which cases Fabric is not needed, because Power BI alone is enough more often than people say. Third, they acknowledge that Fabric is a young platform, evolving fast, which calls for a period of familiarisation.

Do we need an integrator to set up Fabric?

Not necessarily, if you already have someone in house who masters dimensional modelling and has the time to devote to it. The platform is accessible. What takes more than the platform is the arbitration of business rules between several entities, the loading of history and the figure-by-figure reconciliation with the source systems: that is where projects stall, and that is where an integrator earns its place.

How much does a Fabric engagement cost?

Our Fabric projects run from 30 to 150 days depending on the number of sources and the complexity of the business rules. On top comes the Microsoft capacity, billed separately by Microsoft: on shared capacity every reader needs a Power BI Pro licence, on dedicated capacity readers no longer need one but the capacity itself is billed. We price both scenarios during the scoping workshop.

Can you come to our site in the Lyon area?

Yes. We are based in Saint-Priest, on the outskirts of Lyon, and we travel across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and to French-speaking Switzerland. We work in English as well as in French. Outside the region the project runs remotely: on a Fabric project most of the work happens on the data, not in a meeting room.

What is the difference between Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse?

Fabric is the unified platform that succeeds the historical assembly of Synapse, Data Factory and Power BI, bringing them together under one offer, one storage layer and one bill. If you start from scratch today, the question hardly arises any more. If you already have a Synapse estate, it deserves a serious look, and the answer depends on what you have built.

Two hours to find out whether Fabric is the right answer.

Eleven expert consultantsSaint-Priest, near Lyon, France

A scoping workshop with a certified consultant, without commitment. We look at your sources, your volumes and your business rules, and we tell you what we would do, including when the answer is that Power BI is enough.

Request a scoping workshop

Scoping workshop · 2 hours · free