Writeback with Fabric Planning: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get Started (with Gopal)

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

April 17th, 2026 (9:30 AM - Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

Writeback is one of the most requested capabilities in the Power BI community. It is now native in Microsoft Fabric with the newly announced Fabric Plan Item in Fabric IQ

In this session, Gopal Krishnamurthy and Reid Havens break down exactly how writeback works natively in Fabric Planning, including:

• how business users can create report and enterprise planning apps on top of semantic models

• how other stakeholders can collaborate and enter plan, forecast data

• how those inputs are written back to Fabric SQL

• how organizations can govern the data management process with PowerTable’s Live writeback and

• how you can do variance commentaries and commentary writeback with intelligence sheets

Whether you're an FP&A or Ops team tired of budget spreadsheets or a BI developer who's been asked to build an enterprise planning solution, this session gives you the full picture - live, in Fabric.

GUEST BIO (Gopal Krishnamurthy)👤

Gopal Krishnamurthy is a data and analytics entrepreneur who has been building companies in the space since 2010. He made two career-defining bets: first, pivoting from SAP consulting to cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI) in 2017, which led to his consulting business being acquired by Atos in 2021. Second, betting that future enterprise applications would need to be built natively on top of cloud data platforms, which became the foundation for Lumel.

Today Lumel serves over 3,000 organizations with 400+ employees, is fully bootstrapped from the proceeds of that first exit, and is the #1 Microsoft Power BI AppSource Partner. The company is building a full-stack Enterprise Performance Management suite (planning, BI, and data management) natively on Microsoft Fabric, and was recognized as Best Overall Vendor for EPM by BPM Partners in 2025.

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