Microsoft Fabric and Foundry

Microsoft Fabric + Foundry

Modernize your Microsoft data & AI stack with Fabric + Foundry

Ship real features—on your data, with responsible guardrails.

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Microsoft Fabric and Foundry unite your organization's data, AI, and analytics into one intelligent platform.

Already on Outlook/Teams/Azure?
You’re Fabric + Foundry ready. 

Transform Your Data Into a Competitive Advantage

Winmill's certified architects help SaaS and Enterprise IT teams unlock faster insights, reduce infrastructure complexity, and scale AI initiatives—without the typical deployment headaches.

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Your Data Intelligence Hub

Fabric and Foundry create a unified analytics and AI platform that adapts to your needs. Whether you're building real-time dashboards, training machine learning models, or governing data across your enterprise, everything works together seamlessly on Azure's trusted infrastructure.

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From Strategy to Production in Record Time

Our architects don't just design solutions—we partner with your teams to implement, optimize, and scale. From initial architecture workshops to production deployment and beyond, we ensure your Fabric and Foundry environment delivers value quickly and continues to evolve with your business.

Built for the Challenges You Face Every Day

Soc 2 Compliance

  • When technical debt slows innovation → We modernize your analytics infrastructure without disrupting current operations, positioning you for future growth.
  • When AI initiatives stall in proof-of-concept → We architect production-ready AI workflows on Fabric that scale from pilot to enterprise-wide deployment in weeks, not months.
  • When your data is siloed across systems → We create a unified data foundation that breaks down barriers between teams and tools, so your organization can finally work from a single source of truth. 
  • When cloud costs spiral out of control → We optimize your Fabric and Foundry implementation to maximize performance while minimizing waste—delivering measurable ROI from day one.

Fast-Track Your Data and AI Transformation

Pre-designed packages that deliver results in weeks, not months.

Fabric Lakehouse Kickstart Winmill

Fabric Lakehouse Kickstart

  • OneLake setup + secure workspaces
  • Data ingestion via Data Factory pipelines (top sources)
  • Medallion layers (bronze/silver/gold) + Direct Lake Power BI dashboards
  • Purview catalog + sensitivity labels
Outcome: Unified analytics foundation, governed and BI ready. 
Foundry Responsible AI Winmill

Foundry Responsible AI Accelerator

  • Agent design & risk discovery workshop (RAI Standard)
  • Prompt shields, content filters, tracing/evals, red team tests
  • Purview governance + Defender alerts pipeline
  • Pilot agent deployed with telemetry & cost controls
Outcome: A production ready agent with measurable safety/quality. 
AI on your Data Winmill

AI on Your Data (RAG + Fabric IQ)

  • Index enterprise content
  • Retrieval augmented generation patterns
  • Foundry IQ integration for enterprise knowledge access (preview)
  • Security trimming via Entra + Purview
Outcome: Useful, secure answers from your data.
ACA First Modernization Winmill

ACA First App Modernization

  • Lift-and-improve to Azure Container Apps (reduce k8s ops)
  • Observability, autoscale, network hardening
  • Optional Foundry agent add on for automation
Outcome: Lower ops overhead + AI enabled workflows. 

Built for the Teams Driving Your Digital Future

Solutions that solve real challenges for technical leaders across your organization.

CIO / CTO

Consolidate analytics, reduce vendors, establish AI governance you can defend to the board.

VP Engineering / VP of IT

Ship AI features with Foundry agents and safe RAG—publish to 365/Teams; simplify ops via ACA where feasible.

Product Owner

Reliable insights from unified data; faster AI product iterations with guardrails.

Safe to Scale from Day One

1 Responsible

Responsible AI guardrails baked in

Foundry includes tracing, evaluations, red teaming, Prompt Shields, and Defender for Cloud alerts to govern agents end to end.

2 Governance

Unified governance across data & AI

Purview integrates with Fabric’s OneLake and Foundry for security, lineage, and policy enforcement.

3 Identity

Enterprise identity & access

Entra based agent identity and RBAC across workloads.

4 Audit

Auditability & monitoring

Fabric audit logs for SQL DB (preview) + Foundry monitoring/evals for agents.

What Are Microsoft Fabric & Microsoft Foundry?

Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft’s unified analytics SaaS platform that brings together Power BI, Synapse, Data Factory, Data Science, Real Time Intelligence, and centralized storage in OneLake—so teams can ingest, transform, analyze, and govern data in one place. 

Why Fabric matters:

  • OneLake + Lakehouse: A single logical data lake with Delta Lake tables, shortcuts to external sources, and Direct Lake for BI—reducing duplication and ETL.
  • Governance-ready: Deep integration with Microsoft Purview for security, catalog, lineage, and labels.

Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) is Microsoft’s unified platform for building, governing, and scaling intelligent agents and AI applications—offering multi model access, agent runtimes, evaluations, tracing, and enterprise publishing.

Why Foundry matters:

  • Agentic AI at enterprise scale: Build multi agent workflows with integrated monitoring and red teaming.
  • Model choice: Access diverse frontier and open models in one governed platform.
  • Responsible by design: Discover–Protect–Govern framework with Defender alerts and Purview integration.

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FAQ

Is Foundry different from Azure AI Studio?
Yes. Microsoft rebranded and expanded Azure AI Studio into Microsoft Foundry, a unified platform for building, governing, and scaling intelligent agents with enterprise controls.
How does this integrate with Teams/365?
Foundry enables distribution/publishing into Microsoft 365/Teams for agentic experiences.
Will Fabric replace our existing warehouse/lake?
Fabric can unify your analytics via OneLake and Lakehouse—often reducing duplication across lakes/warehouses. Many teams adopt Fabric alongside existing systems and use shortcuts to virtualize external data during migration.
Do we need Kubernetes?
No—Fabric is SaaS, and our default modernization stance is Azure Container Apps for serverless containers when we do need app hosting.
How do we ensure Responsible AI?
Foundry implements the Discover–Protect–Govern framework, with tracing/evaluations, prompt shields, red teaming, and Defender for Cloud alerts integrated—plus Purview for data governance.
What about governance across hybrid environments?
Purview governs across Azure/M365/Fabric; Azure Arc can extend control to hybrid/edge scenarios.
Do we need to move all data to OneLake?
Not necessarily. Shortcuts can reference data in ADLS, S3, or other locations without copying.

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