Is there a Microsoft Fabric solution that comes with KPIs already built so we don't start from a blank canvas?

A pre-built KPI is a named measure defined in a governed semantic model, shipped with the calculation logic, the grain it is valid at, the time intelligence and the lineage back to source tables. A dashboard template is only the picture. Templates can be redrawn in an afternoon; the measure definitions and the pipelines feeding them are where the months go.

Manufacturing covers OEE and its three components, downtime by category, scrap rate and first-pass quality rate by line and shift. Retail covers gross margin by category and channel, sell-through, inventory turns and customer lifetime value. Warehousing covers pick accuracy, cost per order, dock-to-stock and units per labour hour. Healthcare covers bed utilisation, length of stay and revenue-cycle days. Agriculture covers yield per acre, cold-chain temperature excursions and processing throughput.

Yes, and most buyers change some. Every KPI is a measure in one shared semantic model, so a definition is edited once and every report, alert and natural-language answer picks up the change. Discovery in weeks one and two exists to find those differences: gross margin net of inbound freight, a fiscal year starting in July, scrap counted in units rather than cost.

Microsoft publishes sample datasets, tutorials and industry solutions for Fabric, and those do ship real data models — genuine structure. What they do not ship is a connection to your ERP, metric definitions your own finance and operations teams have signed off, or anyone to operate them. A pre-built accelerator arrives wired to named source systems and is run as a managed engagement, so there is an owner when a pipeline fails overnight.

IntelliFabric is quoted per engagement across Starter, Growth and Enterprise tiers, priced on source-system count, industry modules and user population rather than per KPI. Microsoft licensing is bought separately: a Fabric capacity, F2 being the smallest SKU Microsoft lists, plus a Power BI Pro or PPU licence for every report consumer below F64 — at F64 or larger a Fabric free licence and a viewer role are enough. Confirm current terms with Microsoft.

When the metric that matters is one nobody else calculates — a proprietary yield model, a contract-specific rebate rule — the library gives you plumbing but not the metric. Also when one clean source system and a dozen reports mean a competent analyst finishes in weeks, or when your data team already runs a working lakehouse and wants only a reporting layer on top.