Nicus Microsoft Fabric Integration
Incorporate Fabric OneLake datasets into ITFM, or model Capacity CU costs.
Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake stores aggregated financial datasets Nicus uses for ITFM. Separately, Fabric Capacity Unit (CU) consumption data can itself be modeled and allocated as an IT cost.
What This Integration Enables
- Aggregated and transformed financial and operational datasets from OneLake
- Business activity and volume metrics processed through Fabric
- Fabric Capacity (CU) consumption and usage data
- Workspace-level usage and cost data
- Customer, product, and service-level datasets for cost allocation
- Power BI semantic model data for financial reporting
Common Use Cases
- Accessing pre-modeled financial datasets from Microsoft Fabric for ITFM
- Incorporating Fabric Capacity consumption costs into ITFM models
- Business volume metrics from Fabric used to drive cost allocation
- OneLake-stored datasets used as a data integration layer for Nicus
Flexible Integration Options
Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft’s unified analytics platform consolidating data engineering, data warehousing, data science, real-time analytics, and Power BI on a single platform underpinned by OneLake — a unified multi-cloud data lake. Microsoft Fabric is consumed through Capacities (F SKUs) where Capacity Units (CUs) drive compute and storage costs.
Nicus uses data from Microsoft Fabric in two ways: as a source of aggregated and transformed financial and operational datasets, and as a source of Fabric’s own Capacity consumption costs for IT cost modeling.
FAQs
Does Nicus work with Microsoft Fabric?
Yes. Nicus uses data from Microsoft Fabric as a source of aggregated and transformed datasets, and incorporates Fabric’s Capacity consumption costs into ITFM cost models.
What are Fabric Capacities and how do they relate to ITFM cost modeling?
Microsoft Fabric is licensed through Capacities (F SKUs) where Capacity Units (CUs) drive compute costs. Fabric Capacity consumption data can be incorporated into Nicus to allocate platform infrastructure costs to business units or workspaces.