Microsoft Fabric + Purview Governance for Mid-Market Regulated Organizations
Palavir produces a Day-30 governance baseline and a Day-90 stabilization plan for organizations that already have a Fabric tenant in production and need to know what shape it is in before they invest further.
The governance gap
Most mid-market Fabric tenants got stood up fast. Workspaces accumulated by personal preference. Semantic models duplicated across teams. Sensitivity labels published in M365 but never propagated into the lakehouse. Capacity sized to peak rather than P95. Purview connected but not curated. The governance council exists on paper and last met eight months ago. Each gap is small in isolation. Together they compound into audit exposure, regulator findings, and reports that show different numbers depending on who built the dashboard. The fix is not another tool. It is the operating discipline Microsoft's reference architecture already specifies.
What we do
Four engagement types. Each scoped to a specific outcome.
Governance Council Standup
Charter the council, define decision rights, set the recurring cadence, and produce the first decision log. Roles named, escalation paths documented, council operating inside 30 days.
Fabric Lakehouse Implementation
Medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold), domain-aligned workspaces, certified semantic models, deployment pipelines with Git integration. P95-sized capacity with documented headroom.
Purview Deployment
Unified Catalog connected and curated, sensitivity labels propagated from M365 into Fabric, lineage usable end-to-end, audit retention aligned to the organization's regulatory profile.
GenAI Knowledge Assistant
Copilot Studio agents or custom RAG over the Fabric gold layer, with AI governance policy covering what the assistant can access, what it can summarize, and how outputs are reviewed.
Why Palavir
Four reasons mid-market regulated buyers retain us instead of a Big Four practice.
Production Fabric and Purview deployment
Not a slideware practice. Palavir has shipped Fabric medallion architecture and Purview Unified Catalog into a production tenant.
Regulated-environment experience
Sensitivity labels, audit retention, IRM tuning, and control mapping (NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 2) handled correctly the first time.
Eighteen-year analytics track record
Founder holds an MBA from Athabasca University with 18+ years across finance/IR, 7+ years at Home Depot HDMS, agency-side data strategy (Merkle, MRM), healthcare BI, and Senior Director of Data Transformation at Practising Law Institute. Now operating Palavir LLC, formed February 2026.
T&M at $250/hr blended, no per-seat license markup
Typical first engagement is 40 to 80 hours over 4 to 6 weeks. No retainer required, no software resold, no incentive to inflate scope.
Day-30 Governance Assessment Template
Version 1.0 | 2026-05-17
The same assessment Palavir runs in week one of every Fabric or Purview engagement. Ten governance dimensions, scoring rubric, twelve common failure patterns, Day-30 recommendation structure, Day-90 stabilization plan outline, and an appendix mapping each dimension back to Microsoft Learn documentation. Read-only Fabric admin and Purview admin access are sufficient to complete it.
The template assumes the recipient has Fabric in production or active pilot. If you are still in tool selection, this is not the right document yet.
About Josh
Joshua Elberg founded Palavir LLC in February 2026 after eighteen years in data and analytics leadership, most recently as Senior Director of Data Transformation at Practising Law Institute, with prior roles spanning healthcare BI, agency-side data strategy at Merkle and MRM, and 7+ years building analytics teams at Home Depot HDMS. He holds an MBA from Athabasca University and runs Palavir as a hands-on practice. Every Fabric and Purview engagement is led by Josh directly. No bench, no junior consultants, no offshore handoff. Email him at josh@palavir.co.
Start a conversation
If a Day-30 baseline on your Fabric and Purview deployment would be useful, send a short note describing where you are in the rollout. A reply with a few specific questions usually follows within one business day.