How ready is Microsoft Fabric for migration from Synapse + ADF + SQL + Power BI ecosystem?

Question

We are currently running a data platform in Azure with the following components:

• Synapse notebooks (Spark) for data engineering.

Azure Data Factory pipelines with linked services for orchestration.

SQL Database + views as a source for Power BI reporting.

Power BI dashboards consuming data from SQL views.

Self-hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR) for on-premises connectivity.

Azure Key Vault for credential management.

Git integration for version control and CI/CD.

We are evaluating Microsoft Fabric as a potential unified platform for these workloads.

My questions:

Readiness: How production-ready is Fabric for large-scale enterprise migration from the above ecosystem?

Feature Parity: Are there any known limitations or gaps compared to Synapse + ADF (e.g., linked services, SHIR, Key Vault integration, Git-based DevOps)?

Migration Strategy: Is the recommendation today to fully migrate to Fabric (e.g., move notebooks, pipelines, datasets), or use Fabric in a hybrid mode alongside existing ADLS/Synapse/ADF?

Power BI Integration: How mature is Direct Lake and Lakehouse/Warehouse for replacing SQL views as Power BI sources?

Governance & Security: How does Fabric handle secrets management and on-prem connectivity today compared to Key Vault + SHIR?

We want to plan a long-term architecture and are trying to understand whether Fabric can replace Synapse/ADF/SQL today, or whether it is best used as a complementary platform until feature gaps are closed.

Answer 1

Hello Mohd Anas,

Currently, Microsoft Q&A does not support Fabric-related issues. Please try posting your question in the official Microsoft Fabric community here:

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-forums/ct-p/powerbi

Thanks

Pratyush

Answer 2

PFB the details :

1. You would need to have an Azure Key vault as there is no equivalent of it in Fabric. 2-3 mnths back, connection which is equivalent to linked service integration with key vault has been in motion.
2. You have Fabric notebooks, equivalent of Synapse notebooks.
3. There is Fabric SQL database equivalent of Azure SQL Database but would prefer having analytics on Fabric warehouse or lakehouse rather tan fabric SQL database.
4. You have fabric data pipelines which are somewhat equivalent to ADF/Synapse pipelines but the Dataflow within ADF/Synapse are not there within fabric data pipelines. You would have to migrate those logics within Fabric either as Dataflow Gen 2 or Fabric notebooks
5. The equivalent of SHIR in Fabric is On Prem data gateway which you would need to install to fetch data from on prem sources