Fabric Plan is billed on activity-based consumption, and not a commitment-based, named-user pricing model adopted by other planning software.
In this webinar, you will learn how Fabric Planning draws from the same Capacity Units as your other workloads in Microsoft Fabric. Specifically, we will take a closer look at:
- Fabric Planning - an introduction. What Fabric Plan is, where it sits inside Microsoft Fabric, and who uses it day to day.
- Fabric Planning vs. the rest of the EPM market. How consumption-based capacity compares against seat-based EPM pricing, and what changes for you.
- Why a new pricing model. The thinking behind activity-based licensing, and the problems with named-user licensing it is designed to solve.
- The billing model and session types. The three session types - Planner, Stakeholder and Viewer, the CUs consumed by each, how session types are assigned by user's activity, why a session runs its full 30-day window, and how a user operating multiple session types is billed.
- Capacity consumption metrics. What each session type draws per hour, how automation jobs are metered, and what to monitor when Fabric Plan shares capacity with other workloads (Power BI, notebooks, pipelines etc.,).
- The capacity estimator calculator, LIVE. How to size the right F-SKU capacity.
- Capacity FAQ. F-SKU minimums, whether Power BI Pro is required, reserved vs pay-as-you-go, overage and throttling, and what idle months cost.
- Best practices for managing CU consumption. Recommendations and best practices including Fabric Workspace role governance, and more.
Bring a sizing scenario of your own. We will keep time at the end to work through them.
