Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines

At Buro Matei, we specialize in implementing Power Automate and Microsoft Fabric Pipelines to revolutionize data workflows for Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects.
These tools eliminate inefficiencies caused by scattered files, siloed systems, and outdated processes, enabling teams to work cohesively, maintain accurate data, and streamline communication. With a deep understanding of EPC workflows, we design scalable solutions that align with organizational goals while setting the foundation for seamless transitions to advanced platforms like Dataverse, Power Apps, and Microsoft Fabric.
Power Automate is a tool that helps automate tasks, such as sending notifications, updating data, or getting approvals.
It works with many apps and triggers actions based on specific events. Fabric Pipelines, part of Microsoft Fabric, are used to manage the flow of data through steps like collecting, processing, and analyzing it. Both tools make it easier to handle complex data tasks with visual tools and integrations.


With Buro Matei’s expertise, your organization can implement Power Automate to enhance day-to-day productivity and adopt Fabric Pipelines to create reliable, enriched datasets at scale.
Whether it’s automating routine tasks or building end-to-end data workflows, we design systems that centralize information, reduce manual effort, and prepare your organization for the future of data-driven project execution.
Why Buro Matei
We have decades of hands-on experience in EPC roles, giving us a deep understanding of the workflows and repetitive tasks that benefit most from automation.
Our dual expertise in EPC processes and automation tools allows us to design solutions that seamlessly integrate into existing systems while improving efficiency and scalability.
We encourage and train engineers as citizen developers, empowering them to create task-level automations using Power Automate while ensuring company-wide consistency through standardized practices.
We build Fabric Pipelines designed for company-level scalability, considering multiple projects, disciplines, and phases to ensure consistent, enriched data flows across your organization.
Our internally developed systems demonstrate the potential of Fabric Pipelines to create enriched, gold-layer data for dashboards, historical analysis, and predictive insights.
From strategy development to hands-on implementation and training, we deliver end-to-end support to make automation a core part of your operations.
Challenges We Solve
Our Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines solutions address critical challenges faced by EPC organizations:
EPC companies often struggle with disconnected systems and fragmented workflows, resulting in inefficiencies, errors, and duplication of effort.
Manual processes like data reconciliation, approvals, and updates consume valuable time and increase the risk of human error.
Data flows between tools such as SharePoint, Excel, and Dataverse are often maintained using scripts, queries, or manual efforts, which are error-prone and hard to sustain.
Resource constraints make it challenging to maintain automation and data integration systems, particularly across multiple projects and global teams.
Engineers lack access to streamlined tools for day-to-day automation, while centralized teams often face scalability issues with larger data pipelines.
Many organizations lack the infrastructure to integrate and transform large-scale data flows, which limits their ability to build predictive insights, enable AI/ML capabilities, or support decision-making with real-time information.
Our Approach
At Buro Matei, we deliver Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines solutions through a balanced strategy centered on mindset, technology, and execution.
1. Mindset

1. Mindset
We enable EPC teams to embrace automation and data integration as part of their everyday workflows.
- We train engineers and project teams to use Power Automate for small-scale task automation, promoting a culture of citizen development where individuals optimize their own workflows.
- Engineers and managers are empowered to adopt new tools confidently through training on best practices for leveraging Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines.
- Leadership is supported in driving cultural change by championing centralized automation strategies that align with long-term business goals.
- Data literacy is fostered across all disciplines, ensuring teams can collaborate effectively and use enriched data for decision-making.
- We guide organizations in adopting scalable automation practices and developing governance frameworks to maintain consistency across projects and teams.
2. Technology

2. Technology
Our technical expertise ensures the seamless integration of Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines into your EPC workflows, transforming how data and tasks are managed:
- We design Power Automate flows that seamlessly integrate tools like SharePoint, Dataverse, and Teams, automating tasks such as sending notifications, managing approvals, synchronizing data, and extracting reports. By aligning automation with specific EPC workflows, we reduce manual tasks and increase efficiency.
- Our team develops custom solutions using Power Automate to maintain data consistency. For example, when new tags or equipment are added to a database, our automations populate relevant fields based on predefined standards like CFIHOS, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors.
- Fabric Pipelines are crafted to handle large-scale data workflows. We develop end-to-end pipelines that automate the extraction, transformation, and enrichment of data from sources like 3D modeling tools, procurement systems, scheduling platforms, and on-premise SQL servers. These pipelines ensure your data is always centralized, enriched, and ready for use.
- Using the Medallion Architecture, we structure data into bronze, silver, and gold layers. Raw data is ingested into the bronze layer, cleaned and standardized in the silver layer, and transformed into ready-to-use datasets in the gold layer, providing reliable inputs for dashboards, reports, and advanced analytics.
- Our solutions prioritize usability. By integrating Fabric and Automate, we enable practical tools like dropdown menus in engineering systems, where live data such as WBS elements or equipment tags can be accessed directly from the centralized database without manual imports.
- Time travel functionality is embedded in our Fabric Pipelines using Delta Lakes, allowing teams to query historical data for tracking trends, ensuring compliance, and enabling robust audit capabilities.
- All pipelines are designed for scalability, ensuring they support multiple disciplines, project phases, and company-wide use cases without requiring significant rework. We prepare these solutions for growth, making it easy to integrate new projects, disciplines, or data sources as your organization evolves.
- We create segregated Fabric workspaces for clarity and governance. Central workspaces house company-wide reference data libraries (RDLs) and master data, while project-specific workspaces secure individual project data. Gold layer workspaces provide ready-to-use datasets to project teams, while data engineers maintain access to bronze and silver layers for processing and refinement.
- For real-time monitoring, we integrate live dataflows from job sites using QR codes, vision recognition systems, or IoT-enabled equipment trackers. These insights are delivered directly to dashboards for actionable decision-making.
- Security and governance are at the core of every solution we develop. By leveraging Microsoft Entra IDs and role-based access controls, we ensure your data is protected without compromising accessibility for authorized users.
3. Execution

3. Execution
At Buro Matei, we ensure the seamless integration of Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines into EPC workflows by focusing on practical implementation, procedural alignment, and long-term organizational support.
- Our approach is rooted in aligning tools with your operational goals, streamlining existing processes, and preparing your teams for sustainable growth.
- We assess your current workflows, systems, and data management practices to identify inefficiencies and determine where automation and data pipelines can have the greatest impact.
- We work closely with leadership to update outdated procedures designed for fragmented systems, replacing manual data handling and reconciliation with streamlined, automated workflows tailored to centralized platforms.
- Our team leads the in-house setup of Microsoft Fabric, including workspace configuration and Medallion Architecture implementation, ensuring data is securely structured and ready for transformation and enrichment.
- We design and implement Power Automate workflows for tasks like approvals, notifications, and data synchronization, reducing repetitive manual tasks and ensuring consistent data updates across connected systems like SharePoint, Teams, and Dataverse.
- We support procedural change by guiding organizations through the transition to automation and centralized platforms. This includes revising or creating internal policies and processes to align with new workflows.
- We take an active role in managing the transition by providing interim project or change management services to help organizations adopt new technologies effectively.
- Governance frameworks are established to ensure data security, clarity, and consistency, with project-specific data segregation, company-wide reference data integration, and role-based access controls.
- We train engineers, project managers, and leadership teams to manage and scale workflows and pipelines effectively, ensuring adoption and long-term success.
- Our long-term support includes technical guidance and assistance to refine and expand automation systems, ensuring they grow with your organization’s evolving needs.
- At Buro Matei, we do more than implement tools—we help EPC organizations adapt to modern data workflows, aligning technology with operational needs and preparing teams to leverage automation for improved efficiency and scalability.
Results
Our work with Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines has delivered significant outcomes for clients and within our own internal systems, showcasing practical applications and measurable benefits:

We developed Power Automate workflows to automatically update WBS records in real time. These workflows ensure that changes made to parent records are immediately reflected across all child records, maintaining consistency and alignment across engineering and project management systems. This automation has eliminated manual errors, streamlined record-keeping, and saved hours of effort for project teams.

For clients managing deliverable reviews, we implemented workflows that sync statuses dynamically across Dataverse, SharePoint, and Teams. These automations provide real-time updates, ensuring that stakeholders have access to accurate, up-to-date information. As a result, delays caused by outdated data or miscommunication have been significantly reduced.

We created Power Automate workflows to extract SharePoint list data as dynamic CSV files. These workflows are triggered based on predefined criteria, allowing teams to generate and share tailored data outputs without manual exports. This solution has improved data accessibility and streamlined reporting processes for engineering and project controls teams.

For equipment tags, we developed sophisticated workflows that dynamically populate property fields based on their Tag Class whenever new tags are created. These workflows use predefined CFIHOS standards to determine the specific required and optional fields, such as material properties, operational parameters, and identifiers. This automation has ensured compliance with industry standards, minimized errors, and saved significant time for engineers by automating a previously manual process.

We automated approval processes and notifications using Power Automate, ensuring that critical tasks, such as procurement and deliverable reviews, move forward without delays. These workflows provide automatic reminders and escalations, keeping teams aligned and improving task completion times.

Internally, we built and deployed Fabric Pipelines to handle large-scale data workflows. These pipelines automate the ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of data from multiple sources, including Dataverse, 3D modeling tools, and scheduling software. The resulting gold-layer datasets provide a single source of truth for Power BI dashboards, paginated reports, and advanced analytics.

Our internally developed dashboards rely on enriched Fabric Pipeline data, delivering real-time insights, historical analysis, and predictive modeling. These capabilities enable data-driven decision-making across project disciplines and have been tested extensively within our own environments.

While our Fabric work is internally focused, we actively collaborate with clients on Power Automate workflows. We are eager to partner with EPC organizations to implement scalable data solutions, combining automation and centralized data management to enhance operational efficiency and support growth.
Pricing
At Buro Matei, we tailor our Power Automate and Fabric Pipeline solutions to your organization’s specific needs. Pricing depends on the complexity of workflows, the scale of data pipelines, and the level of customization required.
Power Automate is licensed via a per-user or per-flow plan, while Fabric Pipelines are part of Microsoft Fabric’s capacity-based licensing model.
Let’s explore how Power Automate and Fabric Pipelines can transform your EPC workflows and data management. Whether you’re looking to streamline repetitive tasks or build scalable data pipelines, our expertise ensures that your systems are efficient, reliable, and future-ready.
Schedule a free consultation to discuss your needs, see examples of our internal systems, and explore how we can support your journey toward automation.