IQMicrosoft Fabric IQ · Planning
Planning in Fabric IQ is Microsoft's enterprise planning capability, built into Microsoft Fabric and co-engineered with Lumel, the makers of Inforiver. Budgets, forecasts and scenarios now live on the same semantic models as your reporting. Our Inforiver and Enterprise Performance Management experience is your speed to value.
Planning results are written back automatically to a SQL database in Fabric, so plans and actuals sit side by side on the same governed platform.
Budgets, forecasts and scenarios in a familiar, Excel-like sheet: define the assumptions and inputs, and the outcomes calculate themselves.
Model the alternatives before you commit: change a driver and see what the plan does, with historical data, real-time signals and projections together.
Intelligence sheets turn planning data into insight, with automated variance analysis that shows where you are against plan and why.
| Region | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | 1,120 | 1,180 | 1,240 |
| East | 980 | 1,010 | 1,0601,145 |
| West | 1,340 | 1,295 | 1,320 |
| South | 860 | 905 | 930 |
What's in Planning in Fabric IQ
Planning brings planning, data management and reporting into a single suite inside Microsoft Fabric, so there's no separate planning tool or spreadsheet workflow to keep in sync.
Budgets, forecasts and scenario models in a familiar, spreadsheet-like experience.
Structured planning at scale, aligned with your Fabric data structures and semantic models.
Insights and automated variance analysis over planning data: variances, trends, implications.
Connects and integrates data across systems, so plans stay aligned with Fabric workloads and sources.
Source: Microsoft Learn, What is planning in Fabric?
Try it yourself
This is the idea behind scenario modelling, in miniature. In Planning in Fabric IQ it runs on your own semantic model, and the results are written back to Fabric.
Plan Scenario Illustrative data
Why obviEnce for planning in Fabric
“Customers choose us when compromise is not an option.”
Planning in Fabric IQ was co-engineered with Lumel, the makers of Inforiver, and our Inforiver planning and forecasting expertise, with extensive Enterprise Performance Management experience, carries straight over to Fabric.
