Lesson 01 of 7 · What Fabric is
One platform. One pool of compute.
Your kit lives on your laptop today. By lesson 7 it'll live on the lake.
What do you actually buy?
Moving to sounds like buying a set of new products: a lake, a warehouse, pipelines, notebooks.
What does an organisation actually pay for?
Our toy kit, then and now
This series moves one small kit from Power BI Desktop to Fabric. It's a toy version of a real project: an Excel workbook, Power Query layers, an Import model, a report saved as in Git, and a validator. Tap each part to see where it goes.
Tap a part of the kit
Six parts, one move
Each part has a new home. The measures move least; the Power Query layers move most.
Who needs a Pro licence?
Fabric changes the licence maths for viewers, not creators. The number to remember is .
A report creator on an F2 capacity
A viewer on an F32 capacity
A viewer on an F64 capacity, with the Viewer role
A report creator on an F128 capacity
For the toy kit a trial or a small F SKU is plenty for building. The F64 question only matters once lots of people view the report.
What's happening to Premium?
An organisation runs its reports on a Power BI Premium P1 capacity. What's the plan?
Three things to keep
- 1 is one platform on one . Power BI becomes one workload inside it.
- 2Every part of the kit gets a new home. The Power Query layers move furthest; the measures barely move.
- 3Creators need Pro or PPU. Viewers can use a free licence only on .