Fabric Integration
Fabric Integration
Trusted ERP foundation
Seamless Fabric journey
Zap delivers a ready-made data foundation with built-in data governance, including enforced keys and pre-built ERP intelligence that Fabric's lakehouse architecture alone can't match. Skip months of complex and expensive design work and go live in days with a solution finance teams can use immediately through our powerful Excel add-in.
Finance and operations teams benefit from up to 5x faster Power BI refreshes and star-schema-optimized queries and analytics. When you are ready to scale, Zap gives you a one-click pathway to Fabric's advanced capabilities when scale and data science needs arise.
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Trusted ERP foundation
Seamless Fabric journey
Zap delivers a ready-made data foundation with built-in data governance, including enforced keys and pre-built ERP intelligence that Fabric's lakehouse architecture alone can't match. Skip months of complex and expensive design work and go live in days with a solution finance teams can use immediately through our powerful Excel add-in.
Finance and operations teams benefit from up to 5x faster Power BI refreshes and star-schema-optimized queries and analytics. When you are ready to scale, Zap gives you a one-click pathway to Fabric's advanced capabilities when scale and data science needs arise.
What is Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics platform that combines Power BI with data lake and data science capabilities. It's powerful but complex for mid-sized organizations. Zap provides a ready to use foundation while creating a pathway to Fabric's advanced features when needed.
What is Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics platform that combines Power BI with data lake and data science capabilities. It's powerful but complex for mid-sized organizations. Zap provides a ready to use foundation while creating a pathway to Fabric's advanced features when needed.
Data governance is the foundation of insights-driven business.
Forrester, 2025
Fabric's missing pieces
Design complexity
Design complexity
Fabric often requires months of consultant-led architecture work before delivering any value.
Fabric often requires months of consultant-led architecture work before delivering any value.
Data integrity gaps
Data integrity gaps
No enforced keys mean duplicate records can silently corrupt financial reports.
No enforced keys mean duplicate records can silently corrupt financial reports.
Hidden costs
Hidden costs
Multiple SKUs and consumption-based billing create unpredictable expenses.
Multiple SKUs and consumption-based billing create unpredictable expenses.
Zap provides
60-80%
cost savings on typical ERP implementations.
5x faster
with Zap’s proprietary Delta processing.
Days vs. months
to deploy and see results.
Fabric foundations
done right
Control costs
Fixed pricing - All-inclusive license vs. Fabric's unpredictable consumption billing.
No consultant fees - Eliminate expensive data engineering time with pre-built ERP models.
Pay as you grow - Start small, add Fabric capabilities when you need them.
Deliver now
Days, not months - Deploy pre-built models instantly instead of waiting months for custom Fabric architecture work.
Finance-ready - Excel-native tools mean instant adoption with no learning curve.
Real-time ready - Refresh ERP data in minutes without overloading source systems.
Future-proof
One-click to Fabric - Mirror to Fabric for data science with a single click when ready.
Trust first - Begin with enforced data integrity before advanced analytics.
Evolve seamlessly - Keep the same trusted foundation as your analytics needs grow.
What we deliver
ERP-optimized data automation
Purpose-built automation with pre-built models and native understanding of ERP structures and financial logic.
Ledger-level accuracy
Financial transactions maintain their accounting integrity through validation and structure preservation.
Smarter refreshes
Up to 5x faster refreshes with smart detection of changed records, also helping reduce consumption costs in Fabric.
One-click Fabric sync
Mirror trusted data directly to Fabric for advanced analytics and data science, no manual steps required.
Excel add-in integration
Power your finance team with Zap Live, our Excel add-in that lets finance users design and refresh reports directly within Excel.
FAQs
How does Zap prevent duplicate records and ensure data integrity?
Power BI and OneLake cannot enforce primary keys, allowing duplicate records to silently corrupt financial reports. Even Fabric SQL Warehouse requires 'NOT ENFORCED' in all constraints. Zap uses Azure SQL Database or Fabric SQL Database with enforced primary keys, catching duplicates before they reach your reports. ERP financial data integrity is our specialty, not just another data source we connect to.
How exactly does Zap make Power BI refreshes faster?
Zap transforms each incoming source change as two transactions in the data warehouse: one to reverse the original value and another to add the new value, similar to ledger adjustments. When synchronized to Power BI via XMLA, this enables add-only processing rather than full partition reloads. Since Power BI processes additions much faster than updates, the result is refreshes >5x faster even for complex ERP data.
How quickly can we implement Zap with Fabric?
Most customers go live with financial reports in days versus months required for Fabric implementations from scratch. Our pre-built models and automated warehouse creation eliminate 80% of the implementation time. You can then expand to Fabric's data science capabilities at your own pace while maintaining the same trusted foundation.
How does Zap reduce costs compared to a Fabric-only approach?
Zap's all-inclusive licensing eliminates Fabric's unpredictable consumption-based billing. Customers typically see 60-80% savings by avoiding data engineering time, reducing consumption with our delta processing, and eliminating the need for multiple Fabric SKUs. The more complex your ERP data, the greater your savings.
How does Zap Live (Excel add-in) connect to the same data as Power BI?
Zap Live connects to the same data model as your Power BI dashboards, ensuring a single source of truth while preserving financial statement formatting during hierarchical navigation. Finance teams can create their own calculations without IT assistance and refresh ERP data on-demand - true self-service for financial reporting.