Hi @BobAtSenturus
Thanks to @burakkaragoz @suparnababu8 who shared their thoughts—really great to see others thinking along the same lines about Fabric as a true app platform. It's exciting to see this level of interest from the ISV side.
Yes, Microsoft is moving toward enabling a Fabric Marketplace experience that aligns with your scenario, but it’s not fully available yet. At present, you can package Power BI reports and semantic models into a Power BI App and distribute them via AppSource or internally. You can also use Git integration (currently in Public Preview) to version control and deploy Fabric items like pipelines, notebooks, semantic models, and dataflows. Using REST APIs or PowerShell, you can automate the deployment of an entire solution stack, including workspace creation, pipeline setup, Lakehouse provisioning, and semantic model/report publishing.
Microsoft has already signaled plans to support broader solution packaging in Fabric—allowing ISVs to bundle pipelines, notebooks, models, and visuals into a deployable app. This would eventually include the ability for users to input connection strings or parameters during installation, which would make the app plug-and-play.
There’s currently no full IP protection for pipelines or notebooks, though sensitivity labels and limited protections are possible for Power BI content. Microsoft is aware of this gap and may introduce options in the future to better safeguard ISV intellectual property.
In the meantime, you can distribute your solution as a Git-based repository with a deploy script that automates setup across environments. This enables version control, controlled updates, and an experience close to what you'd expect from a marketplace app—just without the marketplace interface for now.
Your scenario—installing a bundled solution into a workspace with minimal user setup and full Fabric integration is exactly what Microsoft is building toward, so your timing and architecture plan are well aligned.
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