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00 Independent practitioner hub for Microsoft Fabric planning, by Data CraftersPlanning, now native
Planning, now native
to Microsoft Fabric.
Everything you need to understand, evaluate, and implement Microsoft Fabric Planning. Built by practitioners, for practitioners.
01 Primer
Start here →What, exactly, is Fabric Planning?
The short version, for finance leaders deciding whether to pay attention.
A new capability inside Microsoft Fabric that brings budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning alongside the Power BI reports and data pipelines you already run.
This represents a potential shift away from standalone EPM tools and Excel-based planning toward an integrated, cloud-native approach. Fabric Planning is still evolving, and this knowledge hub exists to help finance and data professionals navigate what it can do today, where the gaps are, and how to get started.
02 Calendar
All events →Events & recordings.
Upcoming sessions, past recordings, and community meetups.
Upcoming2 scheduled
Fabric Plan: Best Practices and Modelling/Implementation Options
Explore the different modelling and implementation options available with Fabric Plan, and learn how to choose the right approach for different planning scenarios, data volumes, and business requirements.
23 Oct · 10:00 AM CTRegister →
Fabric Planning: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Planning
See how Microsoft Fabric can bring demand forecasting and inventory planning together in one integrated planning model. This webinar demonstrates statistical forecasting, inventory policies, stock coverage and health diagnostics, automated replenishment, and manual planner adjustments.
17 Nov · 10:00 AM CTRegister →
Recordings19 available
RecordingWhy Fabric Planning and the Market Opportunity (For Microsoft sellers and service providers)
Discover why Fabric Planning is a growing opportunity for Microsoft sellers, technical specialists, and SI teams, and how Fabric Plan can help organizations modernize legacy and SaaS planning platforms.
13 OctWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning: Mining Operations and Profitability Planning
Learn how to transform mining operational and profitability planning with Fabric Planning on Microsoft Fabric. See how connected, code-free planning brings operational and financial data together for dynamic forecasting, allocation, scenario modeling, and faster profitability decisions.
13 OctWatch →
RecordingWhat's New in Fabric Planning: The FabCon Barcelona Announcements
See the major updates to Fabric Planning, including those announced at FabCon Europe in Barcelona: faster onboarding, planning at enterprise scale, writeback into your semantic model, wider sharing and new governance and capacity controls.
09 OctWatch →
RecordingFabric Plan: Understanding Billing, Pricing and Capacity Estimation
Understand how Fabric Plan's activity-based consumption model works: what triggers a billable session, what each session type consumes, how to size your F-SKU with the capacity estimator calculator, and how to manage and monitor CU consumption.
26 SepWatch →
RecordingFinancial and Paginated Reporting Within Microsoft Fabric
See how finance teams can build formatted financial statements, variance reports, and paginated outputs directly on Microsoft Fabric - without relying on legacy reporting platforms or rebuilding reports in Excel.
24 SepWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning: Top 10 Planning Methods on Microsoft Fabric
Learn how to implement the top 10 essential planning methods in Microsoft Fabric and build connected, data-driven planning processes. Explore practical techniques for forecasting, allocations, scenario planning, driver-based planning, and more to create integrated planning models for your organization.
15 SepWatch →
RecordingThree Ways to Create Planning Models in Microsoft Fabric
Discover three practical ways to build planning models in Microsoft Fabric and learn when to use each approach. See how Tabular, Row, and Measure models compare, and choose the right structure based on your planning needs and semantic model maturity.
25 AugWatch →
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RecordingFabric Planning (PowerTable): Extending Planning Models with Forward-Looking Reference Data
Learn how to extend your Fabric Planning models with forward-looking reference data using PowerTable. In this live session, you'll see how to create new products, categories, and other planning dimensions without code, bring them into an existing planning model, and maintain enterprise governance with security, approvals, and audit history.
19 AugWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning: Build Statistical Forecasts using ETS and ARIMA models
Learn how to build accurate statistical forecasts in Microsoft Fabric using the native Forecasting Engine in the Fabric Plan work item. Discover how ETS and ARIMA models can transform your Semantic Models into predictive planning solutions for smarter, data-driven decision-making.
28 JulWatch →
RecordingSecuring PowerTable Applications in Fabric Plan
Learn how to secure PowerTable applications in Microsoft Fabric with enterprise-grade governance. Discover Fabric permissions, SQL connection security, audit logging, row- and column-level access controls, approval workflows, and upcoming Fabric Plan security features through live demonstrations.
21 JulWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning: Profitability Planning with 'Optimizer Solver'
Discover how Microsoft Fabric Optimizer Solver automates financial planning, enabling target-based and multi-variable optimization for better business outcomes.
07 JulWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning (PowerTable): Modernize Your Excel-based Processes with Security & Approval Workflows
Discover how PowerTable on Microsoft Fabric enables governed self-service applications for operational workflows such as vendor onboarding, headcount requests, approvals, and status tracking
23 JunWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning: Mastering Multi-Dimensional Planning and Allocations
Move beyond spreadsheets with Microsoft Fabric Planning. Explore no-code allocations, multi-dimensional cubes, and integrated business planning at scale.
09 JunWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning Hands-On: Day 3, Build a Financial Chart of Accounts
Day three of the hands-on series: build a financial chart of accounts from scratch.
11 MayWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning Hands-On: Day 2, Build One End to End
Fabric Planning
04 MayWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning: Introducing PowerTable for Data Management
An introduction to PowerTable for managing planning data.
30 AprWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning Hands-On: Day one, getting started
Fabric Planning
27 AprWatch →
RecordingWriteback with Fabric Planning
Join Khaled Chowdhury (The Fabric Whisperer) and host Reid Havens for a deep dive into writeback capabilities in Microsoft Fabric Planning. Hosted by Reid Havens (https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhavens/).
17 AprWatch →
RecordingFabric Planning: What, So What, and Now What?
Join Khaled Chowdhury (Principal, Data Crafters) and Gopal Krishnamurthy (Founder & CEO, Lumel) for a first look at Microsoft Fabric Planning. We'll cover what it is, why it matters for FP&A teams, and what to do next.
08 AprWatch →
03 The Blog
Archive →From the Blog
Articles from the Fabric Planning Substack.
04 Field reports
All posts →What people are saying.
Discussions, insights, and updates from across social media.
05 Community
Join the Finance Fabric User Group.
A free monthly user group for finance professionals exploring Microsoft Fabric Planning. Hosted by Khaled Chowdhury and Alex McPherson. Each session covers one real-world topic — modeling patterns, migration stories, writeback, security — followed by open Q&A.
Join on Meetup →Free · monthly · virtual
Where finance meets fabric.